The Lake Washington Shipbuilding Boom
A new canal connection to Puget Sound drives the expansion of a local steamboat yard into an ocean-going venture.
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The first development of the shipbuilding industry on Lake Washington as a result of the building of the Lake Washington canal, connecting the lake with Puget Sound, was announced this week. Captain L. Hannevig, representing Hannevig Brothers of Christiania, Norway, awarded contracts for two steel cargo steamers of 8,800 tons each to the Anderson Steamboat Company of Seattle. The Anderson company, which has a small yard on Lake Washington for the construction of lake vessels, will enlarge the plant to build ocean-going steamers. The vessels are to be completed within 17 months and will cost $1,250,000 each.
“The Anderson company... will enlarge the plant to build ocean-going steamers.”
This 1916 industrial expansion mirrors the ongoing tension between maritime industrial history and current efforts to preserve the ecological and residential character of the Lake Washington waterfront.
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