Handwritten on verso: Reuce, 3 m. ship .  Built in 1881, she was known as "Hungry Reuce" by seamen around Cape Horn. She came to San Francsico in 1889 with 17 of her crew having scurvy. She was purchased in 1911 by the Calfornia Shipping Co. for $15,000 (p.196-197). She was outfitted with wireless apparatus in 1913 at Portland (p. 217). She was taken from Oakland to Portland for cannery service by Columbia-Pacific Packers (p. 292). In the early 1920's she was used as a floating distillery but sold in 1921 for the Asian lumber lumber trade (p. 324). She wrecked in February of 1924 off the Japanese coast (p. 357). [Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966)]
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circa 1900 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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