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85 stories matching sloop
- Thirty Hours Adrift Off West Point, Waving a Coat at Half-Mast
A passing steamboat captain spots a dismasted sloop wallowing off the Magnolia bluff; the tug Mayflower goes out and brings back a man who had run out of food, water and luck.
- The Sloop Comet 'Piracy Plot' and the Boy Left Holding the Blame
Nathan B. Young Jr. is out on bonds in a theft case as talk turns to conspiracy, a hijacked sloop, and a captain's contradictory defense.
- The Sloop Louisa and the Perilous Waters of Elliott Bay
In 1890, federal authorities seized the sloop 'Louisa' for smuggling Chinese laborers into the Puget Sound, a stark example of the era's exclusionary maritime enforcement.
- The Waterfront Opium Mystery
A suspicious midnight sloop sighting and a conversation overheard on the Lake Union shoreline lead police to believe a massive shipment of contraband has been landed.
- The Double-Cross on the Sloop Skagit
A crafty smuggler’s attempt to offload his legal liability onto his hired hand backfires after a loose-lipped celebration at a local saloon.
- Family Missing After Sloop Disappears in Puget Sound
A Mount Vernon father ignored warnings to stay off the rough waters of the Sound with his wife and children; now only debris remains.
- Fifteen Japanese Arrive by Night, and the Immigration Men Lose the Trail
A small sloop from British Columbia put a group of Japanese immigrants ashore in Seattle under cover of darkness; officers suspect a smuggling scheme and a deliberate evasion of the immigration law.
- Prospecting the San Juans by Sloop
Two local men set out on their annual voyage to find coal and adventure among the islands.
- The Tragic Disappearance of a Smuggling Sloop
Twelve people, including ten Chinese laborers and two young girls, are believed to have perished in the treacherous straits separating Victoria from the American side during a high-stakes human smuggling operation.
- The Opium Runners of Port Townsend
Customs inspectors engage in a high-stakes boat chase after catching smugglers unloading contraband in the dead of night.
- The Ghost Ship of Possession Sound
A modest notice from 1877 reveals the perilous, everyday reality of life on the Puget Sound, where a wayward sloop was snatched by the tides.
- The Mystery of the Sloop Clara Bell
A small vessel has been found adrift on the Snohomish River, leaving authorities looking for its owners.
- The Sloop-Raiding ‘Pirates’ of Puget Sound
For years a crew of thieves raided ranches and wharves around the Sound, escaping by water—and alibiing one another in court. Now their reputed leader faces a second trial.
- Five Hours Adrift Near Marrowstone Point
A sudden shift in the wind leaves three sailors clinging to their swamped sloop for five hours in the cold waters off the Olympic Peninsula before rescue arrives.
- The Emerald's Cargo: Opium and Chinese Laborers Seized in Puget Sound
Federal authorities seize a sloop carrying banned opium and undocumented Chinese immigrants at Port Discovery Bay, highlighting the harsh enforcement of exclusion laws in Washington Territory.
- The Opium Sloop of Port Townsend
A routine smuggling bust on the Puget Sound uncovers a cargo of opium, a piano, and a fugitive deserter, sparking a legal struggle over seized property.
- Three Fishermen Drowned Off Port Angeles While a Witness Waited Until Morning
A fishing sloop capsized east of Port Angeles. One man clung to the wreck, then swam for shore and vanished; a neighbor had heard the crew shouting for help the night before but did nothing.
- Smugglers to Face Federal Grand Jury
Two men accused of transporting Chinese passengers via sloop await trial in Tacoma following their arrest by the revenue cutter Arcata.
- A Sloop, a Mill Heist, and a Dump in the Bay
Eugene Kelly and Charles Amos were convicted in minutes after stolen iron and machinery from Vashon Island was traced to Seattle's waterfront and pulled from the bay.
- The Price of Incompetence in 1879
When an American warship finally steamed into Puget Sound, it didn't just bring firepower—it exposed the community's deep-seated anxiety about whether the U.S. government had abandoned the Pacific Northwest entirely.
- Sloop Louisa Seized in 1891 Chinese Laborer Case
Federal authorities clamp down on the waterfront as the government moves to forfeit a vessel for allegedly smuggling Chinese laborers into Elliott Bay.
- The Sloop Louisa and the Contraband Laborers
A federal seizure notice reveals the 1890 crackdown on illicit maritime transport of Chinese laborers into the Puget Sound.
- A Vashon Island Farmer Stumbles on 80 Pounds of Smuggled Opium
A boy’s shout over a “funny box” on the beach leads customs inspectors to a sloop and an Italian sailor accused of running opium from British Columbia.
- The Mystery of the Capsized Sloop Martha
A maritime mystery unfolds near Marrowstone Point after the steamer George E. Starr discovers an abandoned, overturned vessel.
- The Unseen Hustle of the Seattle Waterfront
While critics dismissed the city as a sleepy backwater, the secret traffic of sloops and warehouses revealed a burgeoning trade hub.
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- A Sloop Killing on the Waterfront
After a violent altercation on a boat docked between Pike and Union streets, a coroner's jury investigates the stabbing death of Benedict Sare.