| Summary: | This photo shows U. S. Navy YP-85, which was converted from fishing vessel Nick C II by Olson & Winge Marine Works in Seattle. U.S. Navy YP (or "Yippee") boats of World War II were wooden fishing vessels, usually purse seiners or cannery tenders, converted for use as patrol craft and armed vessels. With ironbark sheathing on their hulls, the YPs ranged up and down the Pacific Coast, from the Panama Canal to the Aleutians and into the Bering Sea. Olson & Winge Marine Works was formed in 1941 by Oscar E. Olson (b. 1882) and Carl B. Winge (1891-1956). The two met in 1910 while working for King and Winge Shipbuilding Company, started in 1899 by Carl's uncle, Albert M. Winge (1868-1916), and his partner Thomas J. King (1843-1925). From around 1941 to 1944, the Olson & Winge yard devoted its production facilities completely to the war effort, primarily converting, adapting and repairing ships for military use, but also producing new vessels, such as several wooden lighters. The yard was located at the foot of 8th Avenue Northwest, on the Lake Washington Ship Canal at 4125 Burns Avenue Northwest. After WWII Olson & Winge returned to commercial boatbuilding, and Carl Winge retired in 1948. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7.5 x 9.5 in.
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