Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-04-16
Travels From Seattle
to COnstantinOple

travels From Seattle
to C0nstantin0ple
Theron Imsdahl, son of Mr.. and Mrs..
O. T. Imsdahl, Of Oslo, writes an inter-
esting letter on the first lapse Of his;
voyage from Seattle thru the Panama
Canal, to New York and Constantine
Ople. The letter follows:
Dear Folks: t-a
Well, here 1 am on the wild Pacific
ocean. We have been out since Satur-:
day, the 9th of December. We left
Seattle and expect to be in San Fran
cisco tomorrow morning some time.
Talk about rough weather, we sure had
our share of it since Sunday morning
till last night. It is a little rough yet
but not worse than we can stand
everybody has been sick as dogs. Some
of the crew were so sick they could not
work and those that could be up at all
had to do the work for the others. I
have been up and on the 60 ever since
we started. I was not so very sick but
have had a dreadful headache all the
time. I guess we will be staying in
Frisco few days and hope we will get
liberty so we can get to see the sights.
1 am hoping to get off at New York
all Of us will put in request to get off
there. We are getting into warmer
climate all the time.
Frisco the 13th.-Well here we are
anchored now at San Francisco harbOr.
1 think we will go to dock tomorrow
some time. l am anxious to get to land
and see what it looks like, it looks fine
from here everything is green. We can
see Goat Island and all the tents up in
the hill, Navy training station and we
can see the barracks at Preside, where
Melvin Swanson was training. I am
afraid we won't get liberty here as the
"fu' has broken out again. I saw in
the papers there were 285 new cases
again. We are going to fill up with oil
here-just barely had enough to get
here. There are eight of the boys 60
ing to be taken off here and left at
Goat Island as they can not stand sea
service. They surely were some sick
boys, too. I was sick only one morning.
l threw up my breakfast three times
before got it to stay down. We that
were not too sick were worked nearly
to death, as we had to double up and
take the place of the sick boys. have
hardly slept since we left Seattle. l
have been getting in pretty good with
the baker. At nights when have stood
watch have gone in the galley and
always got something to eat
Tomorrow morning we have inspec-
tons of quarters, sea bags and personal.
I suppose you folks have snow and cold
weather. 1t sure is nice here.
Sunday morning the 15th-We left
Frisco yesterday and are anchored out
Of Mare Island. We will pull into the
dock as soon as the fog goes up.
think port side rate liberty from now
until Monday morning and the rest of
us go out from Monday until Tuesday.
I am on star board watch. 1t is so
foggy this morning we can't see across
the ship. We are about one hours ride
from Frisco, so if I can make any kind
of connections and get any time I will
go over. We passed ship yesterday
that had sunk so could just see the
mast head out of the water.
Dec. 1S.-Now we have washed down
decks and are just waiting for break
fast. I am going to get this letter off
with someone now before we leave We
are leaving this morning sometime
There are five men on board, they took
off the regulars and just reserves left
on board. I was made p. o. of star
board-watched yesterday so 1 will
have less to do but more to look after
/ did see San Francisco and it sure is
a wonderful place for what little 1 did
see of it. did not get in till 8 p. m.
and had to be back here at a. M. We
have $500 miles to Panama from here
and if we have nice weather it will take
us about three weeks. We filled up
with oil yesterday and have fuel enough
to go right through-no stops till we
get where we are supposed to go, to San
Deigo, and fill up with Oil. The stormy
weather from Seattle took so much we
nearly run out before we got here. The
little town we are locked at now is a
beautiful little place named. Valijo.
There is a lot Of talk about us getting
off at New York and the boat will be
turned over to the Shipping Board from
there. I hope it is true as I would
rather be home now being the war is
over. They say we will be in New
York by February if weather is good
and all goes we'll. -
Your Son and Brother,
Theron.