Steam, Smoke, And Silence

STEAM, SMOKE, AND SILENCE The Mosquito Fleet of West Puget Sound

The Sound keeps what it takes.

That is the first thing you learn about Puget Sound if you grow up on its western shore — not the beauty of it, not the cold, not the mountains reflected in the gray water on the rare mornings when the clouds permit. The first thing you learn is that the Sound does not give things back. Not the boats it has claimed. Not the men who went down with them. Not the names of those who were never on any o...