Today you can still find quite a few Islanders who remember the Lucy Evelyn as a local gift shop and landmark in Beach Haven, N.J. Fewer can remember it afloat in the Bay during the 1940s, but her story goes back to her launch in Maine in 1917.

Last week’s column covered the ship’s early years, which were relatively calm. But all that changed in 1923, when two events put it into the news.