Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D7522-1
Date(s)
- 1938-10-15 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Loading of Norwegian ship "Nordhval" with scrap streetcar tracks. Man watching as rails are lowered into ship's cargo hull through a hatch. The ship sailed on October 15, 1938 with 2,500 tons of scrap metal. Over 1/2 of that amount came from the rails of the discontinued Tacoma streetcars. (T.Times, 10/17/1938, p. 5).
Cargo ships--Tacoma--1930-1940; Shipping--Tacoma--1930-1940; Shaffer Terminals, Inc. (Tacoma);