Story from the National Trust about the closing of the Kinzua bridge.

Preservation online
SJHussar@aol.com

Note also on same website as Kinzua Bridge, the story of Virginia V steamboat at Seattle. Seven year, $6 1/2 million project. Pretty impressive.

> Story from the National Trust about the
> closing of the Kinzua bridge.


ryarger@rypn.org

The Virginia V is am amazing survivor. She is a major wooden vessel; one of a very few still operational in the US. Her 400 hp steam engine is from an earlier hull; it now powers her 115 foot wood hull and carries passengers on Puget Sound in Washington State.

Thanks Bob for mentioning an important museum ship and steam at theat!
Ted


ted_miles@nps.gov

Ted,
you will most definitely find this of interest.
The Steamship "Portland" has been found after a century of searching. Located in Stellwagen Bank, between Cape Ann and Cape Cod, in 460 feet of water. There are no plans to raise her...yet!

The full story of the Portland can be found at the link below; and also today's story of the discovery in the Boston Globe. ( www.boston.com/globe )


Steamship Portland
SJHussar@aol.com

Stephen,

Yes this is quite a summer for underwater archaeology. The USS Monitor, the CSS Alabama, the Pearl Harbor mini sub, and now the Portland!

I saw the story on the CNN site, thank you for mentioning the story!

And to give this a Preservation flavor, I just read that the steam engine fromm the Chief Wawatam, the 1911 coal fired car ferry on the Great Lakes has been delivered to the Great Lakes Historical Society at Vermillion, Ohio for display. The hull still exists as a barge.

ted_miles@nps.gov

The Virginia V (five) was extensively overhauled about 20 years ago as a party boat. With most of its hull now replaced, it is more of a replica than a "survivor." It does have the triple expansion engine (1908) from the Virginia IV. It will now continue in excursion service.

I enjoy hearing it blow for the bridges under my office window, but its loss as a genuine historical artifact saddens me.

There was a good opportunity 15 or more years ago to have a maritime museum of vessels in Seattle. The various local and state governments rather brutally killed the proposal (whose details were never given much publicity). The vessels are now mostly scattered or altered. Never to return.