WRECKING AND SALVAGE FACILITIES

There are no firms in the port engaging exclusively in marine rescue, wrecking, or salvage work. However, locally based floating equipment could be readily adapted to such uses. Some of the tugs listed in the Floating Equipment tabulation are fitted with fuel tanks for long distance work and towline winches for handling tows in open waters. Part of the equipment is also rigged with pumps, nozzles, and hose which can be utilized for fire fighting, pumping out vessels, or for cleaning oil spills.

The list of Hoisting Facilities Afloat indicates that the port does not have heavy-lift floating cranes, although there are several scows and barges onto which mobile cranes, of moderate lift capacities, have been mounted. When hoisting equipment for heavy lifts is needed it must be obtained from other ports, usually from Seattle about 28 miles distant, or from Tacoma about 48 miles.

Diving service is furnished by R. S. Van Kirk, 2430 Rucker Avenue, who maintains diving dress and gear. Tugs and barges of the American Tug Boat Company and the American Pile Driving Company are used in connection with diving operations. Other divers are available from Seattle.

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND RATES

STEAMSHIP SERVICES AND ESSENTIAL TRADE ROUTES

Steamship Services

There is no regular service maintained at Everett by steamship lines engaged in the foreign and domestic ocean trades. Frequent service to other Puget Sound ports and to nearby points in British Columbia is made available by a local line. Most of the steamship lines included in the following general description of services available to Puget Sound ports will call at Everett as cargo offers. Puget Sound is served regularly by 41 steamship lines, 23 of which are foreign operated. Ten United States flag lines offer regular sailings in the coasting trades, operating 5 services in intercoastal, 1 in coastwise and 6 in noncontiguous trades. In foreign trade there are 9 United States and 23 foreign lines offering scheduled sailings.

Domestic and Nearby Foreign Trades.

Local and British Columbia.- The Puget Sound Navigation Company carries passengers and vehicles daily between Seattle and Port Townsend, Port Angeles, and Victoria, British Columbia. Puget Sound Freight Lines maintains a twice weekly service for freight only between Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia, and Powell River, British Columbia, calling at way points. This line also serves Grays

Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd. has daily sailings from the Leonora Street Dock, Seattle, to Vancouver, British Columbia. The Coastwise Line calls at Ocean Falls, British Columbia, on its regular United States Pacific Schedule. Intercoastal.- Regular service between Puget Sound and United States Atlantic ports is offered by: Arrow Line, Pope and Talbot Lines, Pacific Coast Direct Line, Calmar Line, and Luckenbach Lines.

An expansion in the Puget Sound/Atlantic Coast service has become a

possibility since the Interstate Commerce Commission, in late September 1953, authorized the Isbrandtsen Company and the State Marine Lines to provide certain eastbound services in this trade. Sections of the Isbrandtsen authorization

which may affect the Puget Sound area include permission to operate a yearround eastbound service from Pacific Coast ports to New Haven, Connecticut, to operate a fortnightly eastbound service from all Pacific Coast ports to all Atlantic Coast ports from August through February, and to carry woodpulp, wood flour, and lumber from the Pacific Northwest to Atlantic ports on an irregular basis. The States Marine Lines authorization covers the carriage of lumber and forest products from the Pacific Northwest to all Atlantic ports. Both

authorizations are effective December 2, 1953.

Coastwise. The Coastwise Line provides about two sailings per month. from Puget Sound to Long Beach and San Francisco.

Non-contiguous.- Matson Navigation Company schedules two sailings per month to Hawaii. Puerto Rico is served by Pope and Talbot Lines and the Waterman Line, both operating on a semimonthly schedule. semimonthly schedule. Service to Alaska is provided by l

lines with a total of over 21 sailings per month. The Alaska Steamship Company schedules 6 or more sailings per month; the Alaska Freight Lines, 8 per month (semiweekly); and the Coastwise Line 3 sailings per month.

Foreign Trades

East Coast South America.- Two United States, the Pacific Republics Line and the Pacific-Argentine-Brazil Line, and one foreign line each furnish monthly service over this route.

West Coast South America.- The United States flag Grace Line maintains semimonthly sailings to Valparaiso calling at way ports. Two foreign lines also operate on this route on less frequent schedules.