Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, ca. 1883
This file appears in: Who is the Namesake of Friday Harbor?
early Friday Harbor only 14 years removed from the encounter between the crew of HMS Plumper and Joe Friday
This file appears in: Who is the Namesake of Friday Harbor?
Who is the Namesake of Friday Harbor? – What is the historical memory of Peter Friday and Joe Friday
In 1859 the British survey ship HMS Plumper was scouting the San Juan Islands during the joint occupation of the Islands by the British and the United States. Oarsmen from the HMS Plumper took a skiff into what they would later call "Friday…