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Post by BreannaF on May 28, 2007 15:51:00 GMT -8
Looks like the Elwha is no longer up in Everett. When did they move her and does anyone know where she might be? I was on the ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle on Sunday 5/27 and the Elwha was sitting tied up at Eagle Harbor.
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Post by SS San Mateo on May 28, 2007 18:50:22 GMT -8
She'll probably be starting on sea trials very shortly.
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Post by zman on May 28, 2007 19:31:20 GMT -8
She was being towed in on 5/26. Around 8:10PM or so.
It will be GREAT to see her back out and running again! Hopefully, not too much longer.
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Post by EGfleet on May 30, 2007 5:16:30 GMT -8
She'll probably be starting on sea trials very shortly. Um. Wouldn't count on it. Seems there was a little mishap while towing her from Everett...Why it always has to be the Elwha is beyond me. (Unless you believe in the word hoodoo...)
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Post by SS San Mateo on May 30, 2007 6:32:05 GMT -8
Um. Wouldn't count on it. Seems there was a little mishap while towing her from Everett...Why it always has to be the Elwha is beyond me. (Unless you believe in the word hoodoo...) Another mishap!?!?!? There has to be some kind of curse associated with that name. The other Elwha (later Silver Strand) got battered in a storm (like what happened to the current Elwha in late 1990), but with much different results (got bashed to bits with only the wheelhouses remaining intact).
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Post by Barnacle on May 30, 2007 10:13:00 GMT -8
The other Elwha (later Silver Strand) got battered in a storm (like what happened to the current Elwha in late 1990), but with much different results (got bashed to bits with only the wheelhouses remaining intact). When was this? I know about the Golden Bear on her tow north, but...?
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Post by SS San Mateo on May 30, 2007 11:06:06 GMT -8
The other Elwha (later Silver Strand) got battered in a storm (like what happened to the current Elwha in late 1990), but with much different results (got bashed to bits with only the wheelhouses remaining intact). When was this? I know about the Golden Bear on her tow north, but...? Sometime in either very late 1969 or the early 70's. www.evergreenfleet.com/silverstrand.html
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Post by EGfleet on May 30, 2007 14:42:31 GMT -8
This is true...but this was after she'd been retired from active service on San Diego Bay.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2007 15:26:32 GMT -8
The orginal Elwha was named the Golden Shore in San Fran, she was successfully towed north to Puget Sound and served on the Bainbridge -Seattle route with the Kahloken. She was the first ferry that my Father ever worked on. She was sold by Blackball before WSF took over operations and was towed to San Diego to work down there. The wood electric that was smashed to pieces on the tow north was the Golden Bear. She only served in San Fran and was never rebuilt by Blackball or named the Elwha. Her hull was turned into a barge and she ended up on the breakwater for the mill at Powell River. The orginal Elwha was a great ferry and served Puget Sound well. My Father said she was the very best of the wood electrics!
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Post by SS Shasta on May 30, 2007 16:19:49 GMT -8
The orginal Elwha was named the Golden Shore in San Fran, she was successfully towed north to Puget Sound and served on the Bainbridge -Seattle route with the Kahloken. She was the first ferry that my Father ever worked on. She was sold by Blackball before WSF took over operations and was towed to San Diego to work down there. The wood electric that was smashed to pieces on the tow north was the Golden Bear. She only served in San Fran and was never rebuilt by Blackball or named the Elwha. Her hull was turned into a barge and she ended up on the breakwater for the mill at Powell River. The orginal Elwha was a great ferry and served Puget Sound well. My Father said she was the very best of the wood electrics! This is an interesting account. My father also worked on the first MV Elwa a few times although his regular assignments were to MV Chippewa and SS Iroquois. He was also assigned a time or two to MV Chetzemoka and once to MV Golden Bear. I guess that one had the most adventure for him. He was on her when her upper cabin collapsed during a storm off the southern Oregon Coast.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2007 17:09:08 GMT -8
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This is an interesting account. My father also worked on the first MV Elwa a few times although his regular assignments were to MV Chippewa and SS Iroquois. He was also assigned a time or two to MV Chetzemoka and once to MV Golden Bear. I guess that one had the most adventure for him. He was on her when her upper cabin collapsed during a storm off the southern Oregon Coast.[/quote]
Wow! He was on her when she collapsed! That must have been scary and the makings for a good story all his life.
So when your Father worked on the Elwha was he a captain? Was he on the Bainbridge-Seattle route? Maybe my Father and your Father worked on her at the same time?
My Father also worked on the Shasta, Kahloken, Klahanie, Quinault, San Mateo (on the Manchester-Seattle route), Chetzemoka (bringing her up from Vashon) and he took the Quillayute over to the "bone yard" in West Seattle. He almost had a chance to work on the Vashon while she was filling in for the Klahanie at Bainbridge but it was his day off and the next day she was gone. He said that's one he wished he could have work on.
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Post by zman on May 31, 2007 11:56:57 GMT -8
Can we say Kalakala II? Yikes!
Let's just hope that she does not go and crash into another boat...geeze.
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