War Hawk Anchor - Port Gamble, WA
N 47° 51.335 W 122° 35.005
10T E 531161 N 5300333
This large anchor on display lies in Port Gamble, near the Port Gamble Historic Museum.
Waymark Code: WMG7YT
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 01/26/2013
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Visitors to the historic town of
Port Gamble are inundated with historical elements throughout the township. Anyone who stops to take a stroll through the town might come across this large anchor that is on display near the Port Gamble Historic Museum. This anchor has a marker in front of it that says the following:
LARGE ANCHOR
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This anchor came from
the sunken lumber schooner
"War Hawk". It was found
200 feet from the hull in
Discovery Bay.
I found an excellent website that gives a great historical account of this ship and says the following:
The War Hawk is one of the oldest wrecks that are easily visited by divers in the Pacific Northwest. The old wood hulled clipper ship was built in 1855 and carried lumber from the mills in Discovery Bay to San Francisco. On April 12th, 1883, the ship caught fire in the wee hours of the morning while tied up to the dock at the Port Discovery Mill. The crew untied the ship and let it slip away from the dock to keep it from burning up the mill. The War Hawk sank in very shallow water, just south of Mill Point, where she still rests today.
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