The second half of Major Gaffin Young’s extraordinary 1933 photograph album records Jolie Brise’s passage from Hankø to Oslo with a humorous touch. Someone is shown shooting at a covey of birds with an ancient musket, which skipper Bill had hauled from the depths of the sail locker. Gaffin guessed it had been used previously as a ramrod, or a makeshift flint and steel. Luckily the birds “were very wild, and all escaped”. Gaffin himself was sporting an unusually bright red beret and shirt, recently purchased in Hankø, bright enough to have scared the waterfowl in the first place.
Once at Oslo the weather was searingly hot. There to meet Jolie Brise was the British Admiralty flagship HMS Nelson which proved a “very good friend” to the crew, offering bathing facilities along with “much drink and tobacco”. Apart from the earlier and isolated image of a disgruntled Sherman Hoyt, all the other photos of Dorade and her crew appear in the album at this point. She features both under sail and fully ‘dressed’ with flags for the celebrations; Jolie Brise was decked out in similar fashion.
The crews got on splendidly. Roderick Stephens posed for his portrait as did Porter Buck and ‘Cookie’
