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- 1960-03-26
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Scenes from boat launching. The tugboat Drew Foss is pictured here with its bow against the newly christened Albatross, a 144-foot coastal minesweeper. Small but powerful, the tug is apparently maneuvering the larger boat into position. March 26, 1960, saw the launching of the minesweeper MSC-289 from Tacoma Boat Building's Sitcum Waterway site. Named the Albatross, the sixth to bear this name, the vessel was sponsored by Mrs. S.A. Peters and later commissioned at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on April 20, 1961. It would spend the next ten years in the western Pacific seeing duty in the waters off of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The Albatross was decommissioned on April 1, 1970, and sold later that year to a Japanese firm for scrapping. Photograph ordered by Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (TNT 3-27-60, p. B-2)
Tugboats--Tacoma--1960-1970; Launchings--Tacoma--1960-1970; Tacoma Boat Building Co., Inc. (Tacoma);