The Lady Washington - LaConner, WA
August 2005
The Lady Washington docked in LaConner during our visit there.
The ship is a replica that was built in Aberdeen, Washington and launched in
1989 as a Washington State Centennial project. The original Lady
Washington was a merchant ship. These ships transported goods in their
day as our trucks and trains do now. She was retrofitted and served in the
Revolutionary War before returning to hauling goods. She was the first
vessel to reach the Northwest and went on to sail to China and Japan. Now
her replica sails the West Coast educating schoolchildren and adults
like us about the times of the great merchant ships.
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