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The USS Plainview, a relic of lower Columbia history, beached in the shallows of Hungry Harbor

Today we take a look at the USS Plainview, a once-innovative, prototype hydrofoil ship design that was decommissioned by the Navy in the 1960s. She ended up sidelined by her civilian owner after plans to make her into a seafood processing vessel didn't pan out. She remains, partially dismantled, on the shores of the Columbia on the Washington side of the river, a few miles east of the Megler Bridge, beached on private property. Today we'll take a look at her once exciting history, and why she...

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The Ever Forward is not going anywhere

Mar 22, 2022

The story of the very public grounding of another mega containership last week in Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast. This one, unlike the similarly-named Ever Given, which ran aground about a year ago in the Suez Canal, this ship is solidly aground along her entire keel. It will take some doing to get her free.

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