Pope & Talbot, Inc.
(Puget Mill Company)
IndustryLumber, paper, shipping
Founded1849 (1849) in San Francisco, California, United States
FateChapter 7 in 2008.[1]
Key people
ProductsTimber and paper (pulp)
Subsidiaries
  • Pope & Talbot Pulp Ltd.
  • Pope & Talbot Wis., Inc.
  • Pope & Talbot Pulp Sales Europe, LLC
Port Gamble lumber mill, 1904

Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California. Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from East Machias, Maine. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the 1849 Gold Rush.

History

To ship product Pope & Talbot acquired ships. In 1852, Pope & Talbot opened a lumberyard and at Port Gamble, Washington started construction of a lumber mill and start the firm Puget Mill Company. To feed the mill Pope & Talbot purchased timberland, by 1892 owning 186,000 acres. In 1925, the Puget Mill Company mill was sold to Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company. In 1938, the Pope & Talbot families owned the mill again after McCormick was unable to make payments. In 1940, the Puget Mill Company was renamed Pope & Talbot, Inc. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was active in supporting the World War II effort with lumber and ship. The mill ran 24/7 for the war. In 1963, Pope & Talbot exited the shipping trade and sold off the remaining four ships in the Pope & Talbot fleet. In 1972 Pope & Talbot went public, selling stocks. In 1978 Pope & Talbot open a pulp plant in Halsey, Oregon, kraft pulp mill. In 1992, Pope & Talbot purchased a sawmill in Castlegar, British Columbia. Sawmill at Port Gamble is closed in 1995, after 142 years of use. In 1999, Pope & Talbot purchased Harmac Pacific in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In 2001, Pope & Talbot purchased Norske Skog Canada's Mackenzie Pulp mill in northern British Columbia. Pope & Talbot as both a pulp / paper line and lumber - wood line. Lumber mills are in South Dakota and three in British Columbia. Andrew Jackson Pope was born on Jan. 6, 1820, in East Machias, Maine, and died on Dec. 18, 1878, in San Francisco.[2][3] Frederic Talbot was born on February 26, 1819, in East Machias, Maine and died on December 20, 1907, in San Francisco.[4][5]

The Legend of White Gold (1988)

Joseph Rassulo directed a western television movie starring Richard Glover as Andrew Pope and Nick Young as Fred Talbot.[6]

World War II

Pope & Talbot fleet of ships that were used to help the World War II effort. During World War II Pope & Talbot operated Merchant navy ships for the United States Shipping Board. During World War II Pope & Talbot was active with charter shipping with the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administration. Pope & Talbot operated Liberty ships and Victory ships for the merchant navy. The ship was run by its Pope & Talbot crew and the US Navy supplied United States Navy Armed Guards to man the deck guns and radio.[7][8][9]

Ships

A Victory ship of World War II
Liberty ship of World War II

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Liberty ships.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victory ships.

References

  1. ↑ "Pope & Talbot bankruptcy leaves an expensive mess". Kitsap Daily News. May 28, 2008.
  2. ↑ Pope & Talbot History
  3. ↑ "Andrew Jackson Pope Bio" (PDF).
  4. ↑ "Talbot-Whittier Family Papers". Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections, University of Maine.
  5. ↑ "Andrew Jackson Pope" (PDF). World Forestry.
  6. ↑ "The Legend of White Gold (1988)". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
  7. ↑ "Sea Lane Vigilantes". www.armed-guard.com.
  8. ↑ World War II U.S. Navy Armed Guard and World War II U.S. Merchant Marine, 2007-2014 Project Liberty Ship, Project Liberty Ship, P.O. Box 25846 Highlandtown Station, Baltimore, MD
  9. ↑ "Steamship Company Operators of American Flag Ships during World War II". www.usmm.org.
  10. 1 2 "LibShipsG". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  11. ↑ "LibShipsL". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  12. 1 2 "LibShipsJo". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  13. 1 2 "LibshipsA". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  14. 1 2 "LibShipsC". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  15. ↑ "LibShipsW". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  16. ↑ U-net SS West Portal
  17. ↑ "LibshipsB". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  18. ↑ "LibShipsR". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  19. ↑ "LibShipsJ". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  20. ↑ "LibShipsH". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
  21. ↑ "vicshipsB". www.mariners-l.co.uk.
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