A guide to the Harold D. Huycke manuscripts, 1969-1973
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A Guide to the Harold D. Huycke manuscripts
HDC1471
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service2015, National Park Service
Title: Harold D. Huycke manuscripts
Date: 1969-1973
Identifier/Call Number: HDC1471 (SAFR 21916)
Creator:
Huycke, Harold D.
Physical Description:
4 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Harold D. Huycke manuscripts collection (HDC 1471, SAFR 21916) consists of 2 copies of "Last departure, last arrival"
in typescript with some corrections annotated, bound; 1 file (split into 2 files, approximately 150 pp. each) titled Deletions
from M/S. "To Santa Rosalia. Further and back" and 9 files of various chapters of the manuscript with a letter from Whittet
& Shepperson noting the return of the manuscript. The collection is open and ready for use.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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These items were donated by a private individual to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Historical or Biographical Note
Captain Harold D. Huycke, Jr. was born on November 22, 1922 in Oklahoma, and became acquainted with West Coast shipping history
while fishing and working around the Santa Monica pier and Santa Monica Bay fishing barges. He graduated from the California
Maritime Academy in 1944 and the University of Southern California in 1947. He went to sea in the Merchant Marine in the Pacific
during World War II, and after the war continued to go to sea, rising in rank to chief mate, and obtaining his master's license.
Captain Huycke spent several years in the shipping industry, loading ships as a cargo supervisor from Central American ports
to British Columbia and extending to Hawaii. He spent a dozen years at sea from fourth mate to master, including the restoration
work of the three-masted schooner C.A. THAYER and serving as bosun on her last coastwise voyage from Puget Sound to San Francisco
in 1957. Huycke also participated in the restoration of the wooden steam schooner WAPAMA. Beginning in 1973, he became a marine
surveyor. He has written several books on maritime history, including "To Santa Rosalia, Further and Back," a detailed history
of a dozen German sailing ships detained in Mexico during the First World War.
Captain Huycke died 12 February 2007.
The Harold D. Huycke manuscripts collection (HDC 1471, SAFR 21916) consists of 2 copies of "Last departure, last arrival"
in typescript with some corrections annotated, bound; 1 file (split into 2 files, approximately 150 pp. each) titled Deletions
from M/S. "To Santa Rosalia. Further and back" and 9 files of various chapters of the manuscript with a letter from Whittet
& Shepperson noting the return of the manuscript. The collection is open and ready for use.
On the cover of one of the bound volumes (file 1) of Last departure, last arrival is the note: "these are copies of second
revision which were mailed out for corrections 1959-60. This has been since revised twice. HH."
On the cover of the second bound volume (file 2) is inscribed, "(third revision) copied for final revision Oct-Dec 1960, -Harold
Huycke."
Inside file 3 titled Deletions from M/S. "To Santa Rosalia. Further and back" is a cover of a brown mailing envelope dated
May 31, "73. The cover is addressed to Huycke in Edmonds, Washington from Burgess, Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Va. There
is also another piece of brown paper in the back of file 4 annotated with: "property of HD Huycke, Rough Manuscripts Last
departure, last arrival, to Santa Rosalia, further & back," and "final draft-deletions as per Burgess."
- 1) Manuscript, bound, approx. 1 linear inch.
- 2) Manuscript, bound, approx. 2 linear inches.
- 3) Deletions from M/S, "To Santa Rosalia. Further and back."
- 4) Deletions from M/S, "To Santa Rosalia. Further and back."
- 5) Manuscript a
- 6) Manuscript b
- 7) Manuscript c
- 8) Manuscript d
- 9) Manuscript e
- 10) Manuscript f
- 11) Manuscript g
- 12) Manuscript h
- 13) Manuscript i
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Maritime history
Diaries
Huycke, Harold D.
Santa Rosalia (Baja California Sur, Mexico)
Typescripts
Manuscripts
Sailors