Hawaii (barkentine)

The Hawaii, a steel four - masted Scottish - built barkentine of 1900, in layup on Lake Union since 1922, sold to Capt. W. E. Hamed of Seattle for $6,000 and resold the same year to Capt. E. R. Sterling, who converted her to a bald -headed schooner with Fairbanks-Morse engine and renamed her the Ethel M. Sterling. (After making one voyage she was taken over by the Fairbanks-Morse Engine Co. and laid up at San Francisco); Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 374.

Citation: Tacoma Public Library