Koos No. 2

Koos No. 2 (HM25JW)

Location: Coos Bay, OR 97420 Coos County
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Country: United States of America
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N 43° 22.081', W 124° 12.719'

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Working On Water

Koos No. 2 was the second of several tugboats with the Koos name to work for the Knutson Towboat Company.

Built in 1924 by Frank Lowe at his Marshfield shipyard, Koos No. 2 went to work with her sister tug Koos.

The original Koos was used as a travel boat by the Simpson family to get from their estate at Shore Acres to the Coos Bay waterfront. The photograph below, taken in the early 1900s. is the Koos before its conversion to a tug.

What's in a name? According to Oregon Historical Names, Coos is the name given the Native Americans who lived in this area. The Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804 to 1807 made the first mention of them as Cook-Koo-Oose.
Later spellings by others are Cahoose, Koo-as, Kowes, Koos, Coose, and finally, Coos.
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HM NumberHM25JW
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Date Added Sunday, February 18th, 2018 at 7:03pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 401804 N 4802396
Decimal Degrees43.36801667, -124.21198333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 22.081', W 124° 12.719'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 22' 4.86" N, 124° 12' 43.14" W
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Area Code(s)541
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 100-198 US-101, Coos Bay OR 97420, US
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