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Foss Maritime company history timeline

1893

When the Panic of 1893 gripped Tacoma, with bank closures and layoffs happening almost daily, a Swedish immigrant carpenter named John Fyrk drank up his final paycheck and then hung himself behind the saloon that had his money.

1906

In 1906, the Fosses moved to 400 Dock Street, near the mouth of the waterway that would later be named for Thea Foss.

1907

In 1907 she became the founding secretary of the group's Embla Lodge No.

Lillian Foss (middle left), Tacoma (now Stadium) High School girls basketball team, 1907

1931

Thea's story was "a picturesque tradition on the waterfront" in 1931, Raine said in an interview some years later:

1972

Andrew designed boats to "raft booms" (huge Douglas fir logs launched into the bay). These "squat, snub-nosed, round-sterned craft" can still be seen "butting waves on the Sound" wrote Morgan in 1972.

1982

Foss Maritime Company is wholly owned by Saltchuk Resources, a privately owned family investment company formed in 1982 and based in the Pacific Northwest.

1987

In 1987 Foss Maritime was bought by Saltchuk Resources, Inc., a privately owned family investment company that primarily focuses on maritime transportation.

2004

45 of Daughters of Norway in Port Townsend, founded in 2004, was named for her.

2015

June 28, 2015 An apostrophe-shaped, cantilevered swing bridge built for pedestrians and bicyclists only was officially opened in the port city and unitary authority of Kingston upon Hull (also known simply as Hull) in northeastern England.

2018

That production in turn was videotaped and shown at the city's Blue Mouse Theatre on May 17, 2018, as a benefit for the Tacoma Historical Society.

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