Dollar Line Maps + Guides helped Sophie + Jack plan round-the-world honeymoon 1932

Map of Dollar Line routes and Travel of Jack and Sophie Barrett l929-1932 {5} {7}

After marriage at New York City Hall 2 pm Friday June 21, l929, Jack traveled by train to Chicago and San Francisco, where he bought Voightlander camera that was used in many photos on the website. He traveled to Manila on ammunition ship NITRO, was briefly aboard destroyers POPE and EDSALL and served on destroyer TRUXTUN until transferred May 1930. When TRUXTUN skipper Charles B. C. Carey developed tuberculosis, Jack Barrett was in acting command during October 1929 cruise to Zamboanga, Jolo and other out-of the way ponts in southwest Philippines.In Feb-March l930 TRUXTUN proceeded up Yangzte River to Nanking, then capital of China, where Jack and other officers met American consular official Paul Meyer and his fiance Harriet Cogswell, whom Sophie knew at Mount Holyoke. When Jack was transferred May 1930 to gunboat TULSA based in North China near Tientsin,Sophie left her job at Macy's New York, traveled by train to Portsmouth Virginia and boarded large Navy transport HENDERSON, August 1930, visiting Port-au-Prince Haiti, Panama Canal, Corinto Nicaragua, San Diego, Los Angeles,San Frnacisco, Yosemite, Honolulu, Guam, Manila,Hong Kong, Shanghai, and taking local transport to Chingwantao.In January-February l932 Jack and Sophie took leave and traveled on Dollar Line PRESIDENT PIERCE Kobe Japan to Naples Italy via Philippines, Singapore, Ceylon,Egypt. After an eighteen day tour of Italy, Austria, southern Germany and France, they returned to New York on PRESIDENT VAN BUREN March l932.