Owner: Hamlin & South Coast Transportation Company Type: Gas Schooner Tons: 155 Length: 94 Feet
The Patsy was built for the Hamlin & South Coast Transportation Company of Astoria by Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding in North Bend, Oregon and launched on July 25, 1911. She got her name from the initial letter of the “Ports of Call”: Portland, Astoria, Tillamook, Suislaw and Yaquina. The schooner was sold to a Mexican company in 1932.
The Patsy was the sister ship to the ill fated schooner Oshkosh built at Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding in 1909. The Oshkosh was lost on the Columbia River bar in February, 1911 with one survivor and loss of 6 crew including Captain Latham. The Patsy was powered by the engines removed from the broken hull of the Oshkosh.
The schooner Patsy being launched on July 25, 1911 at Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding in North Bend, Oregon.
Gas powered schooner Patsy and Tillamook moored at the Kruse & Banks Shipyard in North Bend, Oregon in July, 1911. Both ships were launched in the summer of 1911.