A guide to the Wawona (schooner) restoration project report, 1975-1982

Processed by: Sara Diamond, 2004 August.

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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2015

A Guide to the Wawona (schooner) restoration project report

HDC1271

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service

2015, National Park Service

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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Preferred Citation

[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

Acquisition Information

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.

Collection Scope and Content

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.

Collection Arrangement

This is a collection of a single item.

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