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Coincidence
Letter to the Editor IWAS interested to find, in “PIM” of March, 1947, “Memories of the Gali lee” and “Forty Years Ago,” written by Oscar G. Nordman, of Tahiti.
I am sure Mr. Nordman, and possibly others of your readers, may be interested in knowing that the “Galilee” was re rigged as a three-masted, bald-headed schooner, and that my father Captain John Quinn, brought her and now uses her as a houseboat in Richardsons Bay, Sausalito, California, only a few miles from San Francisco.
Mr. Nordman also referred to the old “Mariposa” and “Alameda” of the Oceanic Steamship Company, and it is certainly a coincidence that I am at present Master of the new “Alameda,” of the same com pany, which was named after the vessel to which Mr. Nordman referred.
At the time of writing we are lying at Pier 12, Pyrmont, Sydney, on our maiden voyage of the new “Alameda.”
I am, etc.,
E. A. Quinn.
Captain, SS “Alameda.”
March 4, 1948.