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Equator (schooner)

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Equator configured as a tugboat, 1934
Equator configured as a tugboat, 1934

Equator was a two-masted pygmy trading schooner known for carrying passengers Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift Stevenson on a voyage through the islands of Micronesia in 1889. She was later used a wire drag vessel by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and finally as a tugboat along the Puget Sound until her abandonment in 1956. Equator was left to decay as part of a breakwater before she was saved in the 1960s. Efforts to restore her ultimately failed, leaving her remains under an enclosed structure in a decaying state.

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Equator (schooner)
10th Street, Everett Northwest Everett

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Equator configured as a tugboat, 1934
Equator configured as a tugboat, 1934
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