Dake Ship's Wheel

British Virgin Islands….Here is another posting by Dake’s Roving Ambassador of Goodwill, Bari Johnson. You may remember Bari’s last Dake field report from Guatemala. In this latest report Bari says, “Look what I found at the Bitter End, Virgin Gorda, BVI last week!”

What Bari found is a brass ship’s wheel manufactured by the Dake Engine Company in Grand Haven, Michigan. Although Dake made many of these wheels from 1887 until the end of World War II, this wheel is probably from one of the thousands of Liberty ships outfitted with Dake wheels to help with the war effort.