This photo was sent to the Seafarers LOG by Bruce E. Knight of Chesapeake, Va.
Brother Knight was involved in organizing the Isthmian Steamship Company’s S.S. Horace Wells for the SIU in 1946. The picture shows the men on board the ship “the day we voted for the SIU.” He has drawn a circle around himself and indicated an arrow pointing to the bosun, Blackie Martin.
Following that organizing run from Norfolk, Va. to Charleston, S.C., Knight was drafted into the U.S. Army. He served for four years and one month in both Japan and Germany. Following his military stint, he returned to sailing with the SIU.
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