| 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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