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Cordova Chronicles: Saga of the North Cloud, Part 1 thru 4

The North Cloud, a 105-foot power barge purchased from Army surplus, departed Cordova on Sunday, Feb. 20, 1949. It was bound for Seattle shipyards to be outfitted for fish processing cold-storage operations in Alaska. Aboard the craft was a skeleton crew consisting of new owner Fred Howard and his wife, their son-in-law Robert Zentmire, and engineer Leonard Holeman. >click to read part 1<, >part 2<, >part 3<, >part 4< ! Next week: Saga of the North Cloud, Part V: Rescue, At Last!  Dick Shellhorn 09:52