Gillnet Fishing Vessel BUE GIRL, Columbia River Maritime Museum Storage, Astoria, Clatsop County, OR

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Gillnet Fishing Vessel BUE GIRL, Columbia River Maritime Museum Storage, Astoria, Clatsop County, OR

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Summary

Significance: Part of an ongoing project to document the evolution of the Columbia River gillnet boat, Bue Girl is an example of a square-sterned bowpicker with a V-8 engine. Originally a bowpicker, Bue Girl has been modified to a sternpicker. Bue Girl was built at the Columbia Boat Building Company, the shop of Finnish builder Mats Tolonen who was one of the most prolific builders of wood bowpickers in the lower Columbia River region.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1624
Survey number: HAER OR-166
Building/structure dates: 1957 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1992 Subsequent Work

An excellent example of GetArchive image recognition capabilities - is quite a large Fishing Boat collection. A fishing boat is a marine vessel designed specifically for fishers. They are equipped with features that make fishing easier and more efficient. Fishing boats come in a huge range of sizes, and shapes.

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Location

astoria
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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