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WO 160973-C
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- 1971-10 (Creation)
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Patrol boat under construction. In 1970 Peterson Boatbuilding moved their plant from their longtime East "F" St. location to Taylor Way, the former site of the Martinolich Shipbuilding plant on the Hylebos. Peterson's had suffered a massive half-million dollar fire in the summer of 1969. In October of 1971 the firm was busy completing 80-foot patrol boats for the US Navy, probably the last of wooden ships to be built for the government. View of ship under construction; believed to be the YP-669. The patrol boat was designed to run at 15 knots with each propeller driven by two 150-hp Detroit diesel engines. The hulls, built by Tacoma Boatbuilding, were double planked with Alaska cedar over hardwood frames. (TNT 3-5-70,D-10 article on Peterson Boatbuilding; TNT 11-22-70, D-14- article; Gordon Newell, "Maritime Events of 1971," H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966-1975, p. 101)
Peterson Boat Building Co. (Tacoma); Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1970-1980;