Associated Press
SEATTLE — The historic schooner Wawona was pulled away from its moorage in Seattle on Wednesday for a final voyage across Lake Union to a drydock where it will be dismantled.
Maritime supporters could never raise enough money to restore the wooden ship. It had to move to make way for development of Lake Union Park.
The owner, Northwest Seaport, says parts of the 112-year-old Wawona will be salvaged for a museum to tell its history. The 165-foot ship carried lumber along the West Coast, fished in the Bering Sea and served as a barge during World War II.
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