Colman Dock
Waterfront ferry terminal rebuilt after fire and a dramatic 1912 ship collision that toppled its clock tower into the bay.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Colman Dock in Seattle opens on the night of April 25, 1912, as captain John O'Brien, known on the waterfront as Dynamite, steered his steel liner Alameda toward the wooden ferry terminal and its clock tower catching the last light. It follows the order he called down to the engine room, and how it got turned into something very different in the seconds that followed. The dock has been rebuilt more than once, first after the 1889 fire that leveled most of Seattle's waterfront, long before this crossing ever mattered.
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