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Northwest Seaport

Northwest Seaport

The Northwest Seaport's fleet includes the Arthur Foss, a tugboat from 1889, the Swiftsure, a lightship from 1904, the Twilight, a salmon troller from 1933, the Yakutat, a halibut schooner, and the Wawona, a Pacific schooner from 1897 that is one of two survivors of the once immense commercial sailing fleet in the Pacific Northwest.

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