"When a 42-year-old wartime barracks ship, then called the Greyhound, was scrapped in 1949, only a few recalled that she was the twin-stack Yale, veteran of two wars, two Atlantic crossings, a trip through the Straits of Magellan, and two voyages through the Panama Canal. Built for the Metropolitan Line's service between New York and Boston, the Yale was the second turbine steamer constructed in the United States and a remarkable cross between steamboat and steamship. After three years of flashing speed in the East (averaging 21 1/2 knots on one port-to-port run around Cape Cod), she was sold for the San Francisco-Los Angeles-San Diego route on which, with a short tour of English Channel transport service in 1918, she spent the rest of her commercial life. The Yale was finally retired in 1935. From 1941 on, she was employed in Alaskan waters as a dormitory and transport."

MARINERS MUSEUM

Card #29. Description on back. Measures approximately 5-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches.

Gently bumped corners and only slight edge wear.