Bids Sea Goodby

CAPTAIN FRANCISTHATHAWAY HARDY '04, inspector in charge of the Seattle Field Station of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, retired on April 30 amid the plaudits of the North Pacific maritime world in particular and the Northwest and Alaska ports in general, according to The Maritime Digest.

Born in Dover, N. H., and educated there and at Dartmouth, Captain Hardy got his sea legs at the age of two when his father took him on the W. W. Crapo of the Besse fleet from Boston to Yokohama and back across the Pacific to Puget Sound. That was the first of many long voyages for the boy who became an "old salt" before he had gained long trousers.

He entered the Survey in July 1904, shortly after his graduation from Dartmouth, and continued with it until his retirement with the exception of a two-year period during the World War when he was transferred to the Navy, in which he was a lieutenant-commander, and served as executive officer of the troop transport Martha Washington, during eight voyages to France. In October 1938 he left the sea for the last time to resume his old post as inspector in charge of the Seattle Station.

Said The Maritime Digest: "The good wishes of the Northwest and Alaska and of the maritime world will follow Capt. F. H. Hardy when he retires at the end of this month after 37 years in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Navy He is one of those whose whole official career inspires new confidence in the future of free America. If we of the Northwest were asked to sum up the vital feature of his career we would say: 'Fidelity to duty.' "