Maritime Images

10.1.24

Back on the waterfront today.
Phyllis Dunlap heading for fuel, Island Venture pushing an empty.
Coming and going. Mason MahiMahi outbound with Crowley's Protctor and Guard passing. WSF Walla .Walla inbound from Bremerton. WSF Tacoma Inbound from Bainbridge Island.
MahiMahi again.
Terminal 46..Glovis Cougar (RoRo), Polar Star, Healy.

The Classic Workboat Show. South Lake Union Historic Ships Wharf. This year's non resident boats .
With the exception of the USCG Swordfish these boats are foundation boats. Including the resident boats. Virginia V, Arthur Foss, Lightship 83_Swiftshure, Fireboat Duwamish, MV Lotus. They survive by fundraising and generous donations. As you tour these boats, please consider donating to the cause because that is how we get to enjoy them.

Fremont Tugboat Dixie with Kevin Bulson and Thomas Bulson.
Dixie https://www.fremonttugboatcompany.com/dixie-1

USCGC SWORDFISH (WPB-87358)
SWORDFISH is an 87’ Coastal Patrol Boat homeported in Port Angeles on the North Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.

SSS Propeller
The YTB (Youth Training Boat) Propeller is an Army T-boat. Steel-hulled and 65 feet long, the Propeller is an ideal training ship. Built in 1952, the Propeller was first used as an Army cargo ship. It then became the R/V Onar, a University of Washington fisheries research vessel. In 1985, the Onar was put into government surplus and was then acquired by the Sea Scouts, to become the YTB Propeller.

ATA 202 Comanche
WMEC 202 COMANCHE c1970s. Decommissioned January 30, 1980: commercial tug on the Pacific coast out of Tacoma, WA 1990s to 2007 when it was gifted to the Comanche 202 Foundation on October 10, 2007 to become a historic operational museum ship as a USCG Documented Recreation vessel 143 feet long built by the USN as ATA 202 at Gulf Port Boiler & Welding Works in TX. Launched 10-10-44 and commissioned 12-08-44. She went to the South Pacific during WW-II and received a Battle Star during the invasion of Okinawa. In 1959, she became the USCG WATA 202 Verbiage borrowed from Joe V Peterson.

How cool is this?

Wreck of Quest, famed Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last ship, found in Labrador Sea An expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society found the vessel intact and upright at a depth of 390 metres

This happened yesterday. The live aboard conversion that sank at her moorage on Easter weekend was raised. Global Diving was performing the task. Don't know the name of the boat but she is waterlogged and my thoughts about the crane being insufficient to lift the boat out of the water was confirmed. If all had gone as planned she would have been on her way to Anacortes to be chewed up. They are looking for someplace closer like Stabert. The last photo was taken this morning.