White Sails

White Sails is a 1942 electro-mechanical (EM) amusement game from an unknown manufacturer. It is a conversion of Baker Novelty and Manufacturing Company's 1941 machine 'Silver Spray' — meaning existing Silver Spray cabinets were reworked and relabeled as White Sails rather than being built from scratch. The earliest documented reference to it appears in Cash Box magazine, August 11, 1942, and a later issue identifies it as a 'Free Play' game; one period advertisement misspelled the name as 'White Sales.'

As a single-player EM machine from 1942, White Sails predates the invention of the flipper (which did not appear in pinball until 1947), so gameplay would have relied on the era's typical mix of skillful plunging, targets, and scoring via lights, relays, and switches rather than flipper control.

Because it is a conversion rather than an original design, and because so little period documentation survives beyond the Cash Box references, White Sails' original theme, artwork, and specific features are largely undocumented today. It remains a curiosity for historians tracing how manufacturers reused and relabeled existing cabinets during the World War II era, when material shortages limited new game production.