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Did You Know #14?

12/13/2015

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Did you know that Falls of Clyde was saved from being scuttled in Ketchikan, Alaska? William Wendall Mitchell, Jr., whose grandfather was a Scottish sea captain and a shipbuilder in the 1800s in Puget Sound, was a lover of ships. He heard of Falls of Clyde at the end of her career as a bunker vessel for the fishing fleet and that she was to be scuttled. He bought the ship and brought her to Seattle with the hope of restoring her. Unfortunately he was unable to do so, which eventually led to the opportunity of Bob Krauss and John Wright to bring he to Honolulu. A debt is owed to Mr. Mitchell.
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