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A subsequent order announced with launch of the lead ship, USS Emory S. Land in 1977, added a third ship to the class. Emory S. Land and USS Frank Cable joined the fleet in 1979, with USS McKee joining in 1981. In 1978, Lockheed won the contract to construct USS Whidbey Island, an amphibious support transport ship. [5]
3 of 10 Omaha-class light cruisers and 23 cargo ships of 7,500dwt were built in the Tacoma yard (including Jacona, which survived till at least 1971), the Caldwell-class destroyer USS Gwin (DD-71) and the N-class submarines N-1, N-2 and N-3 as well as 14 cargo ships of mostly 7,500dwt also were built in Seattle.
Notwithstanding bad weather, the ship fully met the requirements of the Government and proved that Seattle had a construction company capable of building the largest kind of ship. In March, 1906, the Moran Brothers Company was sold to Eastern capitalists, who reorganized the business under the name of The Moran Company, which, in 1912, became ...
The ceremony took place at the Vigor Industrial shipyard on Seattle's Harbor Island. [2] [6] She was delivered to Washington State Ferries on April 7, 2017, with her entry into service, replacing Klahowya, expected in the following months. [7] The vessel cost $123 million approximately. [2]
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.
The ship was built of local old-growth fir. She was launched 9 March 1922, and towed to downtown Seattle for the installation of her engine and steam plant. In Seattle the engine was removed from Virginia IV and installed in Virginia V. On 11 June 1922, Virginia V made her maiden voyage from Elliott Bay in Seattle to Tacoma down the West Pass ...