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A guide to the Wawona (schooner) restoration project report, 1975-1982
HDC1271 (SAFR 20610)
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Title: Wawona (schooner) restoration project report
Date: 1975-1982
Identifier/Call Number: HDC1271 (SAFR 20610)
Creator:
Unknown
Physical Description:
1 item.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: Wawona (schooner) restoration project report (SAFR 20610, HDC 1271) was funded by the Maritime Heritage Preservation Program
at the Northwest Seaport, Inc. Kirkland, Washington 1975-1984. Documentation include illustrations, correspondence, grants
processing control sheets, service reports and Xerox copies of photographs. The collection is available for research use without
restriction.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], HDC1271 (SAFR 20610), Wawona (schooner) restoration project report, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-00579
This item was transferred from the National Park Service Western Regional Office to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical
Park.
Historical or Biographical Note
WAWONA was built in the Bendixsen yard at Fairhaven, California in 1897 for the Dolbeer & Carson Luber Company of Eureka,
California. She was entirely constructed of Douglas Fur and the largest three-masted schooner ever built on the West coast.
The WAWONA hauled lumber from 1897 to 1914; beginning in 1914 she entered the Bearing Sea as a cod-fishing vessel. During
World War II she was chartered by the U.S. Army and dismasted to serve as a barge in Puget Sound. Following the war she was
remasted and returned to the Alaska cod fisheries. She was retired from fishing in 1947. She was purchased by the Northwest
Seaport in 1964. WAWONA is the first vessel to be recognized on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. In 1985,
the National Park Service, working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Northwest Seaport recorded her
lines. She was berthed at South Lake Union Park in Seattle adjacent to the Center for Wooden Boats until 2009 when she was
dismantled. Wawona was the
sister ship to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park's lumber schooner, the C.A. Thayer.
Wawona (schooner) restoration project report (SAFR 20610, HDC 1271) was funded by the Maritime Heritage Preservation Program
at the Northwest Seaport, Inc. Kirkland, Washington 1975-1984. Documentation include illustrations, correspondence, grants
processing control sheets, service reports and Xerox copies of photographs. The collection is available for research use without
restriction.
This is a collection of a single item.
HDC 648, Series 14, File 5
- This material is located at San Francisco Maritime NHP
HDC 649, Series 3, file 276
- This material is located at San Francisco Maritime NHP
HDC 651, Series 1.6, file 6
- This material is located at San Francisco Maritime NHP
HDC 648, Series 14, File 5; HDC 649, Series 3, file 276; HDC 651, Series 1.6, file 6.