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Towing a dry dock

A 1,000-ton wooden floating drydock, purchased by the Lake Union Drydock Company as surplus equipment from the United States Maritime Commission, was shown from the Ballard Bridge as it arrived in Seattle after being towed from Scow Bay, near Port Townsend, by the tugboat Sandra Foss. The drydock was 240 feet long and 64 feet wide. (Roy Scully / The Seattle Times, 1947)

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A 1,000-ton wooden floating drydock, purchased by the Lake Union Drydock Company as surplus equipment from the United States Maritime Commission, was shown from the Ballard Bridge as it arrived in Seattle after being towed from Scow Bay, near Port Townsend, by the tugboat Sandra Foss. The drydock was 240 feet long and 64 feet wide. (Roy Scully / The Seattle Times, 1947)