[Rarebooks] FS: 1918-19 Cabinet Photo of the Wardroom of the US Navy Ship Forward

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

An interesting cabinet card, apparently from the short time the vessel 
was named the ‘Forward’, showing six crew members in the wardroom, each 
identified. Four are playing cards, one is reading a newspaper and one 
appears to be playing a guitar. A most tranquil group. The ship was 
built in 1882 by James D. Leary, Brooklyn, New York for the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey and commissioned USS Carlile P. Patterson, named for 
Carlile Pollock Patterson, fourth Superintendent of the Coast Survey and 
first of the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Cabinet Photo. 5.25”x4.25” [mount], 4.25”x3.75” [image]. Minor soil, 
light wear. Pen notes on both sides identifying crew members.  [43961]  
$45

“The Patterson was primarily used as a survey vessel off the coast of 
Alaska and numerous Alaskan features were named by the assorted crews of 
the steamer. She also served in other west-coast locations and in the 
Hawaiian Islands. In 1918, the Patterson was transferred to the United 
States Navy for use as a patrol ship during the last months of World War 
I. She was renamed ‘Forward’ August 15, 1918, and performed both patrol 
and hydrographic duties in Alaska and off the Mexican coast. 
Subsequently she was returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1919. 
The Survey judged she was no longer strong enough for offshore use, and 
too slow for cost-effective hydrographic work, so she was sold. She was 
out of service several years. In 1924, the Washington Tug and Barge Co. 
sold the Patterson to C.K. West Co. of Portland Oregon who converted her 
to a motorship for operation along the Oregon coast. In 1925, the 
Patterson was purchased by the Northern Whaling and Trading Company. 
 From then through 1936 she operated as an Arctic trading ship; 
subsequently she was sold to the Alaska Patterson Co. which operated her 
for freight service. The Patterson was wrecked December 11, 1938, going 
ashore in surf and blinding rain 8 miles northwest of Cape Fairweather 
in the Gulf of Alaska, near the mouth of Sea Otter Creek. Most of the 
cargo was salvaged by barge the next spring. The Patterson was 
reportedly beaten to pieces by the surf” [Wikipedia].

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