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The Royale Line's S-38 (NC199H)


 

Royale Line S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Note: Passengers in windows
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Royale Line S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Royale Line S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Royale Line S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Royale Line S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Inside the Royale Line's S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Inside the Royale Line's S-38-B
Houghton Sands, Michigan - 1932
Photo: Kukkonen Studios via Clyde Harold Wescoat
of Copper Harbor, Michigan

Royale Line Poster
Photo: Richard Adams

NC199H in Northwest Colors
Photo: Clyde Wescoat via Richard Adams

NC199H in Northwest Colors
Photo: Clyde Wescoat via Richard Adams


The airplane shown above was completed by Sikorsky in 1928. Her original owner was the Southern Sugar Company which operated an enormous sugar cane plantation around on the southern side of Lake Okeechobee (Florida). The Southern Sugar Company went bankrupt in 1929 and NC199H was aquired by a private party in Mukwanago (WI). In 1932, C.H. Wescoat purchased NC199H and set up The Royale Line. The Royale Line was a flying boat service that was set up in 1932 to ferry passengers between Houghton and Lake Superior's Isle Royale. The final disposition of NC199H is unknown.

Credit for these photo's goes to Clyde Harold Wescoat of Copper Harbor, Michigan, the grandson of the Royale Line's founder. Clyde Wescoat dug these photos out of his grandfather's archives. The photos were shot by Kukkonen Studios, of Hancock, Michigan in 1932 on what are called the Houghton Sands--which are located on the canal dividing the Keweenau Peninsula from the rest of the Upper Peninsula. Richard Adams produced these copies which are digital photographs of the original big plate photographs.


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