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Lake Union Dry Dock Company is a full-service shipyard that specializes in vessel repair and conversions located in Seattle, Washington. Drydocking vessels up to 6,000 tonnes (5,900 long tons; 6,600 short tons), (420 feet (130 m) in length), Lake Union Dry Dock Company repairs factory trawlers, fishing vessels, Coast Guard Cutters and buoy tenders, tugboats, research vessels, ferries, mega ...
The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) is a museum dedicated to preserving and documenting the maritime history of the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. CWB was founded by Dick Wagner in Seattle in the 1970s and has grown to include three sites; the South Lake Union campus in Lake Union Park, the Northlake Workshop & Warehouse at the north end of Lake Union, and The Center for Wooden ...
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.
Location: Seattle, Washington, U.S.: Coordinates: 1]: Primary inflows: Lake Washington Ship Canal (Portage Bay from Montlake Cut): Primary outflows: Lake Washington Ship Canal (Fremont Cut to Salmon Bay): Catchment area: 571 square miles (1,480 km 2) [2]: Basin countries: United States: Surface area: 580 acres (2.3 km 2) [2]: Average depth: 34 feet (10 m) [2]: Max. depth: 50 feet (15 m) [2 ...
Westward is a restaurant on the north end of Seattle's Lake Union, [3] in the Fremont/Wallingford area. [4] [5] The magazine Seattle Metropolitan has said it is "between the Burke-Gilman, the lake, and a boat storage facility". [6]
Lake Union Park is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) park located at the south end of Lake Union in Seattle, Washington in the South Lake Union neighborhood. The park is owned by the City of Seattle and operated by Seattle Parks and Recreation. The park property was gradually acquired by the City, and the final 5 acres (2.0 ha) were transferred from the ...
In December 2007, the city inaugurated its South Lake Union Streetcar line between Westlake Center and stops in the South Lake Union neighborhood. In 2009, the Seattle city council approved a second line, the First Hill Streetcar , to connect First Hill to Link light rail at Capitol Hill and International District/Chinatown stations.
The yacht was sold again in 1951 to a family which moored the yacht in Lake Union and lived on it as a full-time residence. In 1961 the yacht was sold again, to Maj. (later Col.) Curtis Gruye, an Air Force officer, and a jet pilot. [4] Gruye restored the yacht and operated it as a floating hotel for a number of years.