The Record-Breaking Voyage of the Cassandra Adams
Built in Port Ludlow, this sturdy vessel proves its mettle on the high seas.
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A bark was built at Port Ludlow, W.T., bearing the name Cassandra Adams. Her official number on the enrollment of vessels of the U.S. was 125,560. She was first put in the Puget Sound lumber trade, but was soon after transferred to the British Columbia coal trade. John Rosenfeld, of this city, became so favorably impressed with her capabilities that he purchased her, and for the past three years she has been employed in deep-water business. Within this interval she has made two round trips to Liverpool and one to New York. The Cassandra Adams has made the round trip to New York in 7 1/2 months, and if there be any better record of late we do not recall it.
“Other vessels may show as good a record, but the number is not by any means plentiful.”
Port Ludlow was once a massive milling hub of the Puget Sound, a precursor to the maritime and industrial economy that would eventually define Seattle. Today, the town is a quiet community, a stark contrast to its history as a bustling engine of the regional lumber industry.
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