| Lion (brig) | Thomas Vaughan. The Western Shore. Oregon Country Essays., p. 53. |
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| Lion (launch) | On August 16 the Foss launch Lion in charge of Carl Foss, while transporting two British shipmasters, Capt. Patterson of the bark Chiltonford and Capt. Atkinson of the ship Thornliebank, from the Tacoma anchoring ground to shore, caught fire and narrowly avoided complete destruction. A valve on the gasoline tank had been accidently opened and 30 gallons of fuel emptied into the bilges. The engine, running out of fuel, backfired and the flames spread the full length of the launch. A boat from the cutter Grant removed the occupants of the launch, after which the tug Echo pumped water aboard until the burning craft was awash and the flames extinguished. It was then towed to the Foss Boathouse for repairs. xxxx, p. 127. |
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| Lionel R. Webster (ferry) | At Portland three new side -wheel steam ferries were built for the city of Portland and placed in service on Willamette River crossings there. These were the Lionel R. Webster, 343 tons, 139 feet, 200 horsepower, by Joseph Pacquet; W.S. Mason, 322 tons, 122 feet, 100 horsepower, and John F.Caples, 192 tons, 1 00 feet, 75 horsepower, by B. F. Smith. Gordon Newell, Martime Events of 1904, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 106. |
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| Lioness (steamer) | Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 280. |
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| Sea Lion | The tugboat business of Puget Sound was slightly disturbed by the arrival from San Francisco of the Sea Lion, Capt. Samuel B. Randall. She was constructed at Camden, N. J., in 1884, and is one hundred and seven feet long, twenty-two feet beam, and thirteen feet hold. She is fast and powerful and made matters interesting for the Sound tugs until a compromise was effected. E. W. Wright, Large Increase in British Columbia's Inland and Ocean Steam Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,1961 [Wright originally wrote in 1895. Events in this chapter occurred in 1888.]., p.357. |
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| Sea Lion | Among the schooners transferring their cargo to the Coquitlam was the Sea Lion, Capt. Otto Bucholtz, which, as soon as she had delivered her cargo of 1,100 skins to Captain McLellan, stood away for the Russian side, where she hunted through the season without interruption. On September 15th she encountered a fearful storm off Atu, in which she lost six sealing boats and all of her water casks, and the galley was stove in and pretty badly damaged. Sand Point was the nearest port, and Captain Bucholtz headed in that direction, reaching there September 25th. Before going in with the schooner he rowed ashore and interviewed Collector Bullock, who assured him that the vessel would not be molested, so she came in and was beached for repairs. A few days later orders were received from Sitka to seize any of the fleet which had met the Coquitlam and which might run in. Notwithstanding the fact that he had promised her safety, the collector informed Captain Bucholtz that the schooner was under seizure, and a deputy mar |
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| Sea Lion (oil Screw) | This oil screw, stranded on the Columbia bar, October 5, 1939, without loss of life. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Sea Lion (oil Screw) | Stranded on the Columbia River Bar on October 5, 1939. A second vessel named Sea Lion, a troller, disappeared with her two man crew off Willapa Bay in June of 1948. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard,p. 181. |
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| Sea Lion (steam Tug) | The well-known Canadian steam tug Sea Lion was purchased from G. H. French & Co., which suspended operations, by Young & Gore of Vancouver, while Gflley Bros. acquired the coal -burning steam tug Winifred. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1916, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 265. |
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| Sea Lion (steam Tug) | The handsome steam tug Sea Lion, 218 tons, 1 14 feet in length, with triple-expansion (12,20,32) engine, was built at Vancouver, B. C. for Capt. G. H. French. She was noted as the only tug on the Coast to boast a piano in her saloon, and also for her melodious 13-note chime whistle, which could run up and down the entire musical scale. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1905, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 114. |
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| Sea Lion (troller) | This troller disappeared with her two man crew off Willapa Bay in calm weather in June, 1948. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Sea Lion (troller) | The two-man crew of the troller Sea Lion was lost in the unexplained early June sinking of that craft inside the Willapa Bay bar. Seas were calm at the time and the only clue to the accident was a radio message, We are sinking, picked up by the Alaska fishing boat Unga. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1948, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966.. p. 556. |
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| Sea Lion (tug) | 80 year old Canadian tug being converted into a full-rigged saily ship at Friday Harbor, The Marine Digest. September 7, 1985, p. 25+ |
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| Sea Lion (tug) | An unusual marine mishap occurred early in August when fire broke out on the forward end of a 1,000-foot Benson timber raft containing 8,000,000 feet of logs as it was being towed toward San Diego from Astoria by the tug Sea Lion of San Francisco. Although the tug battled the fire for two days she was unable to control it and the raft broke up off the California coast south of Point Arena, crea- ting a menace to navigation for some time. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior, 1966., p. 488. |
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| Sea Lion (tug) | The tug Sea Lion, which had brought the first news of the gold rush to Seattle, was dispatched to the north with the barges A-Jax and B-Jax of Capt. Caine's newly formed Pacific Clipper Line in tow, and crammed with freight and courageous passengers. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 17. |
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| Sea Lion (tug) | The tug Sea Liom sunk by the schooner Oceania Vance in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, had been operated for years by the Puget Sound Tug Boat Co. under charter from the Shipowners' and Merchants' Tugboat Co. of San Francisco and was one of the best known of the Puget Sound towing craft. During most of her service in the Northwest she was in charge of Capt. Charles Manter, who was given command of the big steel tug Goliah (2) upon her arrival in March. For a short time Capt. Orison Beaton handled the Sea Lion his personal effects being still aboard when the vessel went down while in charge of Capt L. B. Lovejoy. The Sea Lion was engaged in towing the Jerries Griffiths barge Charger to Grays Harbor with jetty rock on June 9, 1909, when she was run down and sunk by the American three masted schooner Oceania Vance, Captain Fred G. Scott, at a point in the Strait of Juan de Fuca four miles east of Race Rocks at 6:40 a.m. during a dense fog. The tug's crew of the men escaped by boarding the schooner in the few minutes |
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