On the back of this photo a shaky hand wrote simply “Shang Hai, 1927.” Besides this early appearance of the emblematic SUP cap known later as the “Lundeberg Stetson,” it is the youth of these shipmates that is striking: even the eldest seems a teenager. That fact is a function of organizing economics more than romantic wanderlust. Largely because of Scandinavian class-consciousness, limited ports on the rugged U.S. West Coast, and the superior skill required for the lumber schooner trade, the SUP was able to organize and negotiate agreements in the coastwise trades long before the international trades. As a result, the wages and conditions for sailors in the coastwise trades were for many years far better than those for “blue water” sailors. And since the most senior members would tend to ship out under the best agreements, the common opportunity for new sailors was in ships sailing for foreign ports. Despite the effect of the 1915 Seamen’s Act, which raised wages for all sailors under all flags, this photo attests to the fact that the vestiges of the international trade wage lag, an effect of wage inflation in the first organized coastwise trades, persisted far into the twentieth century.