SS Iroquois

Welcoming crowd (c1907) (Patrick D Lee)
"On boat days we congregated at Ganges Wharf to meet the boat, supposedly to get the mail, but actually on the chance of getting the purser of SS Iroquois to relent, to open the bar and let us have a drink. The said purser, when he was feeling his best, might even be persuaded to part with a bottle whiskey."
from A Late Summer by E.R.Cartwright, CBE