SHIPS OF THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE 



POPE & TALBOT, INC., always on the alert for service to commerce 

 and industry in developing new markets — just as young Pope & 

 Talbot reasoned out the needs of California in 1849 — have, in their 

 present-day operations, helped open the way for important trade from the 

 West Coast to the islands of the Caribbean Sea and to the Atlantic coasts 

 of North and South America. 



Puerto Rico, in the heart of the Caribbean, is the focal point of Pope 

 & Talbot steamship operations in that area. Regularly, their modern cargo 

 ships leave the West Coast ports of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and 

 Los Angeles and steam through the Panama Canal to San Juan, capital 

 and largest city of Puerto Rico. Here the ships discharge California- 

 grown rice, canned foods and manufactured products, and Washington 

 and Oregon lumber and agricultural products. 



Because of its location, Puerto Rico is the center of trading with other 

 countries and islands of the Caribbean — Trinidad, Dominican Republic, 

 Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados and Cuba, and with all the nations of South 

 America. From the rich plantations of Puerto Rico come pineapples, 

 cotton, sugar, fiber for rope making, and many other valuable crops. The 

 skill which has long made it noted for fine needlework (both men and 

 women are skilled at this) is making expert factory workers out of the 

 young men and women of Puerto Rico. 



Pope & Talbot ships also go on beyond Puerto Rico to serve new fields 

 of opportunity for American trade in South America. Their great modern 

 cargo ships have direct service with the important and fast-growing cities 

 on the east coast of South America. 



Typical of the Pope & Talbot fleet is the S.S. P&T Seafarer. Technically 

 known as C-3 ships, the vessels of this type were built during the war to 

 provide fast freight-carrying service to supply the needs of our fighting 

 men in all parts of the world. 



No department store could hold a greater variety of goods than are 

 dropped through the big open hatches by expert cargo handlers operating 



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