Hyster lumber carriers at Anderson & Middleton dock with their ship CADARETTA — 6/7/1947 — #23467_1
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United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
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CADARETTA was one of the vessels owned and operated by the Anderson & Middleton Lumber Company to ship lumber from Washington State to California in the 1920's and 1930's. Today, Cadaretta is a Walla Walla winery owned and operated by the Middleton family. The wines are produced in small quantities and are available exclusively in fine wine shops and restaurants, or directly from the winery, which was established in 2005. To learn more, visit www.cadaretta.com
CADARETTA was one of seventeen single-screw Albina or "Point" type steamships which measured 289x44.1x19.2 and were fitted with triple-expansion engines and oil-fired Scotch marine boilers which developed 1200 to 1400 horsepower. She was delivered to her original owner, the U.S. Shipping Board in 1918 by her builder, the Albina Engine and Machine Works. Founded in 1904 as a repair yard by a Scotsman, William Cornfoot, the Albina Engine & Machine Works became a well-established shipyard, building over 400 steel-hulled vessels before closing in the 1980's. The yard was located on North River Street, in the Albina section of Portland, upstream of the Fremont Bridge. CADARETTA was sold to the E.K. Wood Lumber Co. in 1923.
According to the book, the H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, CADARETTA was one of several Northwest vessels to be scrapped, dismantled or abandoned in 1964. She had been operated for many years by Nelson, Hart-Wood and E.K. Wood in the coast-wise lumber trade, had been renamed SOUTHWIND, and was last owned by the Southwind Navigation Co. of Hong Kong.
Thanks to Sam Talley, who notes: "When we were kids in our parent's car waiting in line at the Harbor Drive-in, we'd always talk about how 'handy' it would be to have one of these lumber carriers. We thought we could straddle the line of cars and go directly to the front!"
