King and Winge Shipbuilding Company
Company type | Seattle, Washington |
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The King and Winge Shipbuilding Company was an important maritime concern in the early 1900s on
Early marine construction
In 1902, the passenger steamer
Seal hunting in the Arctic, which had come close to exterminating the herds, was banned in 1911 by the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911. This meant a number of sealing boats had to be converted to other duties, which included the schooner Casco, which many years before had been one of the boats on which Robert Louis Stevenson cruised the south seas. King and Winge converted installed a gasoline auxiliary engine in her and converted her to serve in the halibut fishery.[6]
Building of the King & Winge
By 1914, King and Winge had built or acquired two power halibut schooners, the ex-Ragnhild, now named the Tom & Al (presumably named after Tom King and Al Winge) and the Gjoa. The Tom & Al, 65' long, was built in 1900 and was still in operation as late as 1962 as a dragger and whaler under Eben and Frank Parker of Astoria, Oregon.[7]
In that year, the firm built to add to their halibut boats, their most well-known vessel, the King & Winge, originally a halibut schooner. King & Winge was considered the most modern halibut schooner yet constructed.[8] She had a 140 horsepower (100 kW) engine, and electric lights.
Later years
In 1919, the yard rebuilt the well-known steamer Bellingham (ex-Willapa, ex-General Miles) into a barge.[9]
Thomas J. King died in 1924, but the shipyard continued, at least for a time. In 1925, King and Winge repowered the former steam ferry Puget with an oil engine, so the boat could be run on the Puget Sound Navigation Company’s Anacortes–Vancouver route.[10] The yard name later changed to King Shipbuilding Co.[11] About the same time the yard converted the steamboat Clatawa into an autocarrier.[12]
See also
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References
- ^ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of Pacific Northwest, at page 358, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
- ^ McCurdy, at 20 and 113
- ^ McCurdy, at 168
- ^ McCurdy, at 196
- ^ McCurdy, at 206
- ^ McCurdy at 207
- ^ Jacobi, Wayne, "King & Winge: Versatile Ship Comes Home," Seattle Times, January 5, 1962, page 33.
- ^ McCurdy, at 242
- ISBN 0-914515-00-4
- ^ McCurdy, at 366
- ^ McCurdy, at 420. The name change is believed to have occurred when James E. King, possibly the son of Thomas J. King, took over the firm following the death of Albert M. Winge, but a source is needed on this.
- ^ Kline and Bayless, at 167