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Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center in Seattle is one of the oldest maritime heritage organizations in the US, and its fleet flagship is also one of the oldest of its kind. The historic wooden tugboat Arthur Foss (1889) represents Pacific Northwest wooden shipbuilding at its height, and a long tradition of maritime commerce on the Pacific coast. This vessel, while technically operational, has never had a major restoration or significant documentation of its construction features. No...
The Many Lives of the Equator: Preliminary Structural Analysis (Part II) (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although Equator was built as a two-masted schooner in 1888, it was significantly altered throughout its long career. In 1897, Equator was sold and converted to a steam tender: boilers and a steam engine were installed, the transom was rebuilt, and a new deckhouse was added with a pilot house and funnel atop. In 1915, a new engine...