File Number Description YearNotes
USP launch "Margaret Ann". Burned and sank at Port Townsend, WA, 9/25/1933.
USP launch "Red Arthur". Was "General Cummings" then Coast Guard "CG-268". Photo by George R. Schneider.
USP launch "DuchessIII". Was Coast Guard "CG-264". Photo by George R. Schneider.
USP ferry "Arcadia" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Arcadia" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Arcadia" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Arcadia" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Arcadia" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Arcadia" Source photo is very poor quality.
Puget Taylor Bay ferry. Service between Steilacoom and Taylor Bay on Key Peninsula. Tie to USP McNeil is not know.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
USP ferry "Pioneer" Source photo is very poor quality.
Puget Taylor Bay ferry. Source photo is very poor quality.
Ferry of unknown name, used as sea-faring campground for recreational vehicles.
USP tug "Butte" in dry dock.
USP tug "Butte" at USP McNeil dock. Structure at right on waterfront is passenger terminal.
USP tug "Butte" at USP McNeil dock. Two men are perhaps the tug captain (right) and USP warder.
Captain Jack Zukowski's private boat, "Sue Z". Used for netting herring and for transportation to mainland to attend school.
Captain Jack Zukowski's private boat, "Sue Z". Used for netting herring and for transportation to mainland to attend school.
Captain Jack Zukowski's private boat, "Sue Z". Grounded on Steilacoom beach as result of heavy fog during run to mainland to attend school.
Sr. Officer John (Jack) Zukowski and wife discussing Zukowski's Superior Service Award with James V. Bennett, Dir, Bur of Prisons, and Senator Warrent G. Magnuson.
USP launch "James V. Bennett"
USP launch "James V. Bennett"
USP launch "James V. Bennett" after conversion to U.S. Navy picket ship "Q-136"
USP launch "James V. Bennett"
USP launch "Holiday", originally "James V. Bennett" then U.S. Navy picket ship "Q-136"
USP launch "James V. Bennett" on exceptionally cold winter day
USP launch "James V. Bennett" on exceptionally cold winter day
USP launch "James V. Bennett" on exceptionally cold winter day
USP launch "James V. Bennett" on exceptionally cold winter day
U.S. Army launch "T-88", first boat made at USP McNeil specifically for use by U.S. Army.
USP launch "James V. Bennett" on exceptionally cold winter day (photo differs slightly from McNeil150
Deck of U.S. Army launch "T-88", first boat made at USP McNeil specifically for use by U.S. Army.
USP launch "Captain Conner, converted from U.S. Army launch "T-88", named for Superintendent of Prisons, A. H. Bennett.
USP launch "Captain Conner, converted from U.S. Army launch "T-88" launching from dry dock after conversion.
USP launch "Captain Conner, converted from U.S. Army launch "T-88".
Pilot Jack Zukowski on deck of USP launch "Captain Conner
USP launch "Captain Conner" at Steilacoom dock.
USP launch "Captain Conner" in slip at McNeil Island
U.S. Army "T-96", second boat made at USP McNeil specifically for U.S. Army
Steel workers at USP McNeil boat building facility
Jack Zukowski's personal boat, used for netting herring and for transportation to mainland.
Jack Zukowski's house on McNeil Island
USP guards. Bud Gray, third from left, became warden
USP launch "Bennett" docked at Steilacoom. Boat at left is unidentified ferry.
USP launch "Bennett" docked at Steilacoom.
USP launch "Bennett" headed toward the narrows, leaving McNeil Island for the last time.
Unidentified girl. (Most of the photos in the "McNeil" category come from the collection of Jack Zukowski, so this may be a relative.)
Unidentified boats at McNeil Island dock
USP launches "Captain Conner" (left) and "Steilacoom" at McNeil Island dock
USP launch "Steilacoom" approaching McNeil Island dock
USP launch "Captain Conner"
USP launch "Captain Conner"
USP launch "Captain Conner"
Pilot house of unidentified launch (probably "Captain Conner")
Launch pilot Jack Zukowski on unidentified launch (probably "Captain Conner")
Launch pilot Jack Zukowski standing at pilot house hatch on unidentified launch (probably "Captain Conner")
USP launch "Captain Conner" entering or leaving McNeil Island dry dock
USP launch "Captain Conner" entering or leaving McNeil Island dry dock
USP tug "Butte" pushing barge in channel between Steilacoom (background) and McNeil Island.
USP tug "Butte" with all hands on deck
USP tug "Butte". McNeil Island in background.
USP tug "Butte" at right edge of photo
Barge and USP tug...probably "Butte"...at McNeil Island dock
Barge and USP tug "Butte" at McNeil Island dock
Unidentified USP tug approaching Steilacoom dock
Unidentified ferry having just left Steilacoom dock as viewed from McNeil. Prison life was tough, but what a view!
Unidentified USP tug approaching Steilacoom dock
U.S. Penitentiary (USP) launch "A. H. MacCormick", transferred from U.S. Navy, picked up by "Peters" at Bremerton.
Passenger boat "Arcadia" of Tacoma
USP launch "Captain A. H. Conner
Speed boat "JR-3" (tie to USP McNeil is unknown
USP boat (unknown purpose) Dora
USP launch "General Cummings", transferred from Coast Guard where it was "CG-264"
USP launch "General Cummings", transferred from Coast Guard where it was "CG-264"
Postcard depicting capture of Roy Gardner in Centralia, WA
Warden Finch Archer (1924 - 1934)
Inmate Dave Beck working out at McNeil USP
Inmate Charles Manson (known for murder of Sharon Tate)
Vincent Hallinan (right) after guilty verdict in U.S. Court (out on bail?)
Robert Stroud, better known as "The Birdman of Alcatraz"