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On November 13, 2012, the Washington State Transportation Commission named the ferry Tokitae. Tokitae is a colloquial greeting that means "nice day, pretty colors" in Chinook Jargon. [2] MV Tokitae en route to Clinton, Whidbey Island. Tokitae was also the earliest name of an orca that had been captured in Penn Cove, Whidbey Island.
The Palatine Light is an apparition reported near Block Island, Rhode Island, said to be the ghost ship of a lost 18th-century vessel named the Palatine.The folklore account is based on the historical wreck of the Princess Augusta in 1738, which became known as the Palatine in 19th-century accounts, including John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Palatine".
Light Vessel Number 83 (LV-83) Swiftsure is a lightship and museum ship owned by Northwest Seaport in Seattle, Washington.Launched in 1904 at Camden, New Jersey and in active service until 1960 after serving on all five of the American west coast's lightship stations, it is the oldest surviving lightship in the United States, the only one still fitted with its original steam engine, and the ...
The ship underwent two months of sea trials and crew training before entering service on the Anacortes/San Juan Islands route at the start of the Summer 2015 sailing season on June 14. [8] Funding for a fourth Olympic-class ship was authorized in the 2015 session of the Washington State Legislature with construction beginning on January 4, 2016 ...
Northwest Seaport was founded in the early 1960s as the Save Our Ships project to save the 1897 Pacific schooner Wawona.Save Our Ships purchased Wawona in 1964, followed by Lightship 83 "Relief" in 1966 (subsequently changed to "Swiftsure" lightship station), and received the tugboat Arthur Foss as a donation from the Foss company in 1970.
Seattle 38 11.6 8 5 1909 O Ajax: 205055 stern frt. 1908 Seattle 103 31.4 175 1908 T-CA Alaska: 107458 prop tug 1899 Seattle 74 22.6 60 T-AK Alaskan: 106409 stern 1886 Seattle 85 25.9 155 95 1889 O Alaskan: 106232 side psgr 1883 Chester, PA: 276 84.1 1,718 1,259 1889 F Albert Lea: 106609 prop fish 1888 Gig Harbor 43 13.1 16 10 1901 O Albion: 107443
Puget Sound and the many adjacent waterways, inlets, and bays form a natural transportation route for much of the western part of Washington. For navigation purposes, Puget Sound was sometimes divided into the "upper Sound" referring to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, and the lower sound, referring to the waters from the Tacoma Narrows north to Admiralty Inlet.
In 1987, after a punk rock concert featuring Seattle band The Accüsed and British band G.B.H., rowdy concertgoers returning to Seattle from Natasha's in Bremerton incited a riot aboard the Kitsap, resulting in damages that cost $40,000. [3] [4] In 1991, the Kitsap collided with the MV Sealth in heavy fog in Rich Passage. Five years later, she ...