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561 stories matching dock
- The Million-Dollar Dry Dock Across the Sound
At Port Orchard, contractors raced to finish the largest dry dock in America—and boasted it would be third largest in the world.
- The Navy's Giant Dry Dock Needed One More Appropriation
A $200,000 federal appropriation rescued the Port Orchard dry dock from a year's delay, a rare bit of good news for Puget Sound's naval future.
- The Navy Secretary Goes Down Into the Big Hole
Secretary of the Navy Herbert rides the lighthouse tender Manzanita across the Sound to inspect the giant new dry dock at Port Orchard, settles a bitter dispute over how deep to drive the pilings, and dances the night away at the Rainier.
- The Dry Dock That Would Make Puget Sound a Naval Power
Senator Watson Squire tells the U.S. Senate that the Port Orchard dry dock is the largest in America and the cheapest in the world—and that the Northwest's future depends on finishing it now.
- The 75-Year-Old Whistling-Buoy Inventor Comes to Fit the Navy's 600-Ton Gate
James Bigler, who has built the giant steel caissons in every government dry dock in the country, arrives on Puget Sound to assemble the mammoth gate for the Port Orchard dock — a 600-ton steel vessel shipped in pieces around Cape Horn.
- The Navy's $600,000 Question: Was the Dry Dock Built on Bad Piles?
A special commission of Army engineers is rushed to Puget Sound to test whether the navy's new dry dock was built on bad piling and inferior concrete.
- Forty Tons of Seattle Iron: Moran Brothers' Giant Pumps Head for the Dry Dock
The biggest centrifugal pumps ever cast on the Pacific Coast leave Moran Brothers' foundry for the government dry dock, three machines able to empty it in two hours.
- The Dry Dock Dispute: Seattle Fights for Its Maritime Future
When the War Department refuses to send warships to Puget Sound for repairs, local leaders accuse Washington D.C. of ignoring Seattle’s strategic value in favor of San Francisco.
- The Dry Dock That Put Puget Sound on the Navy's Map
Senator Squire adds $75,000 to complete the Port Orchard dry dock, a strategic win for Pacific cruisers and a lasting boost for Puget Sound.
- The River Wakes Up—and Newport's Steamboats Go Adrift
After three weeks frozen, Pend Oreille navigation resumes, but a broken boom and an ice floe send the Metaline and Fram downstream and leave the Ruth without a dock.
- The Iron Vanguard of the Pacific
While the USS Nipsic was an aging relic of a bygone naval era, its arrival at the Puget Sound station in 1892 marked a pivotal, hard-fought milestone in Seattle's rise as a major military port.
- The Dry Dock Deal That Promised 300 Jobs in Ten Days
A revised Navy contract at Port Orchard promised hundreds of jobs and a permanent naval station—and contractors insisted their work had been vindicated.
- The Dock Lease That Toppled a General Manager
A fight over leasing Arlington Dock led the Pacific Navigation Company's president to abolish the general manager's job, fire and rehire an agent, and move headquarters to the wharf.
- The Shipworm Eating Seattle’s Waterfront
Wharf owners were spending a fortune fighting a saltwater pest. The fix: fill the tide flats, cut freshwater waterways, and make the harbor safe for pilings—and insurance.
- The Waterfront Turf War
A railroad tycoon and a dry dock company fight for control of Seattle's mud flats as the city transforms.
- The Senator’s Homecoming: A City Roars for Watson Squire
Thousands line the Seattle waterfront as the Bailey Gatzert steamer arrives, carrying newly re-elected U.S. Senator Watson C. Squire home from Olympia in a spontaneous ovation of cheers, champagne christenings, and civic pride.
- The Steamer Evangel Goes Down at Her Own Dock
A forgotten siphon floods the Evangel at Port Angeles; seven sleeping passengers escape in the dark, including the only woman aboard, pulled from the water by a rope.
- The Collapse of Baker’s Dock
A cargo of sugar destined for a warehouse ended up in the harbor after a steamer collision in 1892, sparking a legal battle.
- The Fighting Bulldog of the Navy Departs
Amid steam whistles and cheering crowds, the battleship USS Iowa successfully navigated the Port Orchard dry dock, proving the facility’s superiority over its East Coast rivals.
- Longshoremen and Strike-Breakers Clash on the Docks
Tensions boil over as union members and non-union laborers brawl at the Ocean Dock in Seattle.
- The Seattle Longshoreman’s Strike of 1888
When the steamship Alki arrived in Seattle, a confrontation between non-union workers and the Longshoremen's Union highlighted the volatile labor climate on the Puget Sound docks.
- Longshoremen Halt the Coal Dock
A standoff over wages at the Seattle coal docks ended with a demonstration that forced non-union laborers to walk off the job.
- The Granite That Built a Naval Powerhouse
A Seattle contractor bypasses local stone to import Canadian granite for the massive new Port Orchard dry dock, sparks a cross-border trade friction.
- The Dry Dock Dispute: How One Man Blocked Seattle's Homecoming Heroes
Seattle citizens are furious that Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn refused to send the First Washington Volunteers directly from Manila to Port Orchard, citing Naval Constructor Endicott’s claim that the local dry dock was useless.
- The Struggle for a Seattle Shipyard
As railroad expansion swallows the waterfront, local mariners argue the city's future depends on building a floating dry dock to survive.
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- Quick Verdict in Waterfront Dock Holdup
A jury finds a man guilty of a robbery near the Commercial Dock in just ten minutes.
- Longshoreman Injured at Commercial Dock
A dock worker is rushed to the hospital after a workplace accident involving falling lumber.
- The Struggle Over the Port Orchard Dry Dock
The federal government hesitates to award a massive contract for a key Navy project, citing doubts about the contractor's ability to deliver.
- Breaking Ground for the Port Orchard Dry Dock
After years of lobbying and survey work, the construction of the Puget Sound Naval Station's massive dry dock officially begins with a ceremony led by Commandant Wyckoff.
- Blood on the Docks
A dockworker defending his ship from a drunken interloper sparks a brutal, unresolved question about city services.
- The Expansion of Bremerton’s Navy Yard
Captain Barclay requests four million dollars to build a massive new dry dock, citing the urgent future needs of the Puget Sound station.
- A Workplace Tragedy at the Docks
A yard hand files a lawsuit against the Stetson-Post Mill Company after a logging accident on a dangerous, chute-less dock left him permanently injured.
- Competition for the Port Orchard Dry Dock
A flurry of bids arrives for the massive Navy project in Port Orchard, testing the influence of Seattle and Tacoma firms.