| 300px Alice operating as steam tug, sometime between 1921 and 1930. |
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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Alice (1897-1941; Simon Foss (1941-1963) |
| Route: | Puget Sound, Alaska |
| Completed: | 1897; rebuilt 1930 |
| Out of service: | 1963 |
| Fate: | Purchased by marine historian and beached at Olympia |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | inland steamboat; rebuilt as steam then diesel tug |
| Tonnage: | 55 gross tons (as built)[1] |
| Length: | 65 ft (19.81 m)[1] |
| Installed power: | steam engine; after 1930 135 hp (101 kW) diesel engine. |
Alice was originally a Puget Sound steam passenger ship built in 1897. Alice was later rebuilt into a steam tug, and later converted to diesel power and renamed Simon Foss. As a tug, the vessel was in service until 1963. This vessel should not be confused with the similarly designed vessel Alice, built in 1892, which later became Foss 18.
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Career [link]
Alice was built at Tacoma, Washington for Capt. Bradford, who then put the vessel on the route between Tacoma and North Bay. Alice replaced the steamer Susie on the run, with Susie then being sold to a Fairhaven concern, Franco-American Canning Company, for use as a cannery tender.[1]
In 1900, Bradford sold Alice to the Petersberg Packing Co. and Alice was transferred north to Alaska, where the vessel served for over 20 years.[1] In 1902, Alice was rebuilt as a cannery tender and put into operation purchased out of Juneau by the Todd Packing Co.[1][2] Alice was then returned to Puget Sound, and served as a steam tug for Delta V. Smyth Towing Company.
Rebuild [link]
In 1930, Delta V. Smyth did an extensive rebuild of the Alice at Olympia, Washington, and converted the vessel to diesel power. The installed engine was rated at 135 horsepower (101 kW).[1]
Tugboat Annie race [link]
In 1932, Alice was featured along with a number of other Puget Sound tugboats in the feature film Tugboat Annie. The film, which was based on a fictionalized version of the life of Thea Foss, starred the then very popular comedic actress Marie Dressler (1865–1934) in the title role. The film required a staged tugboat “race”, which was won by the Peter Foss, under the command of Capt. Arthur Hopstead, to whom Marie Dressler personally presented the Tugboat Annie Trophy. Alice was commanded in the race by Capt. Harold Nelson.[1]
Purchase by Foss [link]
In 1941, Delta V. Smyth sold Alice to Foss Launch and Tug Co., which renamed the vessel as the Simon Foss. As Simon Foss the vessel remained in active service until 1963.
Disposition [link]
In 1963 marine historian Gordon R. Newell bought Simon Foss from the Foss concern, and had the vessel beached at Olympia. He changed the name back to Alice and stated that the vessel would be used as “editorial headquarters for the preparation of the Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.”[3]
Notes [link]
References [link]
- Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
- Newell, Gordon R., Pacific Tugboats, Superior Publishing, Co., Seattle, WA 1957
- Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (2nd Ed. 1960)
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Alice (TV series)
Alice is an American television sitcom that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner, where Alice is employed.
Series summary
Alice Hyatt (Lavin) is an unemployed widow after her husband, Donald, is killed in a trucking accident, and with her young son Tommy (played by Alfred Lutter in the pilot episode, reprising his role from the movie, but played by Philip McKeon thereafter) heads from their New Jersey home to Los Angeles so that she can pursue a singing career. Her car breaks down on the way in Phoenix (from a presumed engine fire, as seen in the opening credits), and we meet her soon after she has taken a job as a waitress at Mel's Diner, on the outskirts of Phoenix. (The later seasons' exterior shots were of a real diner, named Mel's, still in operation in Phoenix.) Alice works alongside Mel Sharples (Vic Tayback), the grouchy, stingy owner and cook of the greasy spoon, and fellow waitresses and friends, sassy, man-hungry Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry (Polly Holliday), and neurotic, scatterbrained Vera Louise Gorman (Beth Howland).
Alice (EP)
Alice is the first independent EP by the Sisters of Mercy, released on 12" vinyl in March 1983 by Merciful Release, the band's own label.
Recording
After one week of pre-production at Andrew Eldritch's flat in Leeds, four tracks were recorded over two weekends with producer John Ashton of the Psychedelic Furs at Kenny Giles's studio in Bridlington: "Alice", "Floorshow", Stooges cover "1969" and the unreleased "Good Things".
The same four songs had been previously recorded for a BBC radio session in August 1982.
Release
"Alice" and "Floorshow" were released as the band's third 7" single on 21 November 1982. With two additional tracks, "1969" and the new recording "Phantom", it was re-released in March 1983 as a 12" EP.
Ashton financed a US release (the band's first) of the 12" EP on Island Park, New York label Brain Eater Records.
The EP was never released as a stand-alone CD, but was included on the Some Girls Wander by Mistake collection.
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