The 65-foot wooden purse seiner, built in 1925, was donated to the Museum in 2000 and hauled out of the water in 2003. The fishing vessel was owned by Tony Janovich, who donated it to the Museum shortly after his retirement. We are pleased to have completed the boat’s restoration as well as the enclosure of its gallery. To learn more about the boat’s restoration story, click here. 

Thanks to the following for support of the Shenandoah Project:
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National Park Service Save America’s Treasures

Washington State Heritage Capital Project Fund

City of Gig Harbor

Pierce County Historic Landmarks & Preservation Fund

Port of Tacoma

Maritime Washington National Heritage Area

The M. J. Murdock Trust

DV and Ida McEachern Foundation

Ben B. Cheney Foundation

Fisheries Supply

And more than 430
Individual Donors
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