On March 4, 2009, By Tom Brown – The lumber-carrying and cod-fishing schooner Wawona, her masts cut to stumps and name board askew on the crumbling stern, is towed from her longtime berth in Waterway 4 in South Lake Union to the Lake Union Drydock Company, where she will be further documented and dismantled. The …
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First Cargo of Sugar to Port Costa Refinery On April 3, 1898, the Inca brougnt the first cargo, 31,763 bags of sugar, from Honolulu to the new sugar refinery at Port Costa, California. The barkentine Planter followed with a second sugar cargo from Honolulu shortly thereafter Inca, was “the first true five-masted schooner built on …
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Westward was launched on March 31, 1910 as hull number 692 at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. She was built for millionaire yachtsman Alexander S. Cochran at a cost of $ 118,000. Westward was designed to the International Rule by N.G. Herreshoff to compete in Europe. Westward was the biggest boat built at the time by …
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March 30, 2015 by Mike Schuler – The U.S. Coast Guard rescued all nine crewmembers from the Canadian tall ship Liana’s Ransom 58 miles east of Gloucester, Massachusetts on Monday. As of Monday night the vessel was abandoned but being tracked by the Coast Guard. According to the USCG, watchstanders at the Sector Boston Command …
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