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| Title | Photo of WAWONA's cod fishing crew, 1930's |
| Date | 1930's |
| Notes | The sailing schooner WAWONA was launched in 1897 at the Bendixsen shipyard in Fairhaven, California. The WAWONA was the largest three-masted schooner ever built on the west coast of North America. The ship originally carried lumber along the west coast but after 1914 was used as a fishing schooner. The WAWONA's cod-fishing crew of about 36 men spent six months of each year in the icy Bering Sea. To this day, the WAWONA holds the record for the most cod caught in a single fishing season. The WAWONA was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. NA was launched in 1897 at the Bendixsen shipyard in Fairhaven, California. The WAWONA was the largest three-masted schooner ever built on the west coast of North America. The ship originally carried lumber along the west coast but after 1914 was used as a fishing schooner. The WAWONA's cod-fishing crew of about 36 men spent six months of each year in the icy Bering Sea. To this day, the WAWONA holds the record for the most cod caught in a single fishing season. The WAWONA was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Seattle; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact The Northwest Seaport, 1002 Valley St., Seattle, 98109,www.nwseaport.org |
| Credit Line | Northwest Seaport; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Northwest Seaport |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
