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engine she had in 1930. It was probably at this time or a year later that she underwent a substantial rebuilding. Her deckhouse, bowsprit and eventually also her mizzenmast were removed, her bow was reshaped, and the fore and main masts were replaced with, or reduced to, pole masts. A stern deckhouse
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Ludwinson, left by Simmons's plane. Ludwinson was a local trapper who had been jailed for drunkenness and let out early for the job. These man were picked up by Navy planes and the Coast Guard cutter
410:(Brooklyn) New York. Frames were white oak with cedar tops; planking, beams and lower deck were yellow pine, the upper deck was white pine. Her hull was fitted with iron diagonal braces, and five watertight
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Patterson; this reference quotes Gordon Newell, "Maritime Events of 1938", H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 465.
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973:Cutter Saves Last Nine Of Survivors of Wreck
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699:Bureau of Navigation, US Dept. of Commerce.
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1535:1884 ships
1529:Categories
1439:Noemijulia
1228:Thorpehall
1175:Shipwrecks
1129:2014-01-07
834:2010-05-06
810:2008-10-08
650:References
630:Lituya Bay
541:and sank.
532:USRC
499:Valparaíso
491:Montevideo
436:galvanized
428:barkentine
312:Barkentine
303:8 ft screw
300:Propulsion
174:In service
1469:USS
1458:USS
1449:Stanbrook
1419:Kittiwake
1352:Archimède
1321:Stockholm
1309:USS
1300:Patterson
1290:Cantabria
1280:Zhongshan
1270:Kittiwake
1206:USS
1195:HMS
1109:Patterson
1098:Patterson
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1075:Photo of
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308:Sail plan
198:Patterson
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444:Sigsbee
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367:of the
228:Tonnage
194:Forward
190:Renamed
112:Builder
104:Ordered
34:History
1481:Nymphe
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1378:Teruel
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636:Haida
323:knots
318:Speed
276:Decks
260:Draft
80:Owner
1507:1939
1494:1937
1362:I-72
1311:S-19
1186:Alba
1026:ISBN
1018:ISBN
959:p. 6
770:2019
340:Crew
321:7–9
252:Beam
218:Type
205:Fate
169:1919
126:Cost
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