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WO 167804-A
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- 1977-05-20 (Creation)
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Oil barge. Work continues on an oil barge at Canron, Inc. (located in the old Star Iron & Steel plant), 326 Alexander Ave. in May of 1977. More than half of the work has been completed on the 40 x 165-foot oil barge destined for remote Alaskan river trading. General cargo would be loaded on topside with fuel oil in 12 tanks below deck. Canron, Inc., had received a two-month rush construction job for Venetian Iron Works. Canron, a 123-year-old Canadian firm, had been in Tacoma for about two years and had leased the old Star Iron & Steel plant in the tideflats. The company had 75 employees in Tacoma and reported a $3,000,000 backlog of work. Progress photograph ordered by Venetian Iron West Corp., Seattle. (TNT 5-11-77, B-9 article)
Progress photographs; Boat & ship industry--Tacoma--1970-1980; Barges--Tacoma; Canron, Inc. (Tacoma);