History

Over the Christmas holiday we received a great present from Captain Richard Sturgill over at Drayton Harbor Maritime, in Blaine. He sent us three of pictures, two of the cannery where the David B worked and one of he David B on the beach. In his email he said, “I first saw the David...
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A couple weeks ago we received the greatest gift yet– a photo of the boat taken in 1929. Looking at the people on the deck, I’d say it’s either the launching day or a day that they did sea-trials for the first time. Isn’t she pretty..
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Notes from the Galley Spring flowers bloom early in our part of the Pacific Northwest. Today the first crocus in our yard bloomed a bright purple against the green-grey backdrop of a Northwest Winter. Soon the hummingbirds will arrive just-in-time for the bright blossoms of the Red-Flowering Current and the skies will clear to a...
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Time: 2148 Position 48 45.25N 122 30.26W We’ve finally found some information about David W. Branch, the man for whom the David B was named. He was, as we had been told a superintendant for Libby, McNeil & Libby and worked for them some 44 years. This newspaper picture is from his...
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Time: 1226 Position: 48 45.25N 122 30.26W I just go a call the other night from the woman who truly saved the David B. The story as she told it goes like this: In 1952 the owner of the David B left it sitting alongside of one of their buildings, on a...
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