Harold Huycke's correspondence and notes (SAFR 21400, HDC 1337) concern maritime activity in Tacoma, Washington. It includes 4 pages of "Bashford Notes' on ships visiting Tacoma, 1900-1910; 27 pages of "Larsen Notes," on ships visiting Tacoma, 1900-1907 and canvas jobs done, circa 1900-1910; and 2 letters from Huycke that discuss those notes, from April 1978. The letters are typewritten, but the notes are photocopies. The collection is open for use.

Maritime historian Captain Harold D. Huycke was born November 23, 1922 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. He died at the age of 84 on February 12, 2007 in Edmonds, Washington. When Huycke graduated from University High School in 1930, his family moved to Los Angeles. He attended Occidental College for two years, then graduated from the California Maritime Academy in 1944 and, subsequently, the University of Southern California in 1947. Huycke served in the Merchant Marine on Liberty and Victory ships in the Pacific during and after World War II. He married Alice Marguerite Frost of Birmingham, Alabama in 1952. They lived on the West Coast, where Huycke worked for the Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company in both San Francisco and Tacoma. His three children were born while he worked for Weyerhaeuser. In 1957, the State of California hired Huycke to purchase and overhaul the three-masted wooden schooner, C.A. THAYER. He served as boatswain on the vessel's historic final voyage from Puget Sound to San Francisco. Huycke had a variety of on shore and seafaring jobs over the next dozen years. He worked in Seattle, Hawaii, Mexico, and Central America as a cargo superintendent and served as mate and master on a variety of ships. Huycke also worked as marine surveyor for 18 years before he retired.

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