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Item
Title
WO 160973-A
Date(s)
- 1971-10 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Boat construction. The YP-669 patrol boat, used for training, was being completed at Peterson Boatbuilding in October of 1971. Peterson's, along with Tacoma Boatbuilding who had built the hull, was under contract with the US Navy to build probably the last of the Navy's wooden ships. The YP-669 was the first of the 80-foot boats to be completed. It had an 18-foot beam, wooden hull and aluminum deckhouse. (TNT 11-22-70, D-14 article)
Peterson Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1970-1980;