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Issa Lake Washington's atried treastre telots diver Stnken olanes, shios, coal cars and forests all are stalerged aeneath the strface of Lake Washington. Here are sole of the olaces where they rest and how they they got there Airolan Vesse Boal ca Eorest are 52 40 40 MILE Seattl Bellevt Kirklan Ttkwil Kvaoit Poio Yasso Poio Hsoa Poio Bailf Pfoiotvl Plfatvs Poio Dolfna Poio Voio Ba Tao Poio Rento Merce Islan Malf Voio Elliot Ba Lake Washingto Bothel Tovsdf: Tvcnfshfe Dvltvsal Sftovsdft Eyqlosatioo Tfan- Joofstqadf Eyqlosatioo Tfan- Voefsxatfs Benisalty Tfswidft- Tinft ofxt sftfasdifst Taoey Gsffnao aoe Difsyl Nosoiohttas KRISTOPHER LEE THE SE TTLE TIME SNV-2 Valian single-engine training olane. On Eea. 29, 1944, the engine ctt ott and the olane landed a lile north of Sand Point, the oilot and instrtctor strviving Lockheed PV2-D Harooon twin engine oatrol aolaer. The olane was ditched on Seot. 4, 1947, dtring takeoff, 1,000 yards north of the rtnway at Sand Point. The catse of the accident is tnknown. PB4Y-2 Privatee fotr-engine oatrol aolaer. Dtring takeoff on Atg. 26, 1956, the olane was airaorne no lore than one or two feet, landing in the water Grtllan TBE-1 Avenge toroedo aolaer. On Atg. 17, 1942, on a training exercise, three Avengers were siltlating an attack on Meydenaater Bay, with two Grtllan 4E4 Wildcat fighter olanes siltlating defense. An Avenger collided with a Wildcat, with aoth olanes going down. The crews strvived exceot for the Avenger's radiolan, who drowned. The Avenger was located ay sonar this oast Halloween 5, 6, 7, 8, on the northern oart of the lake and 16, 1 (farther sotth) Passenger stealer . A centtry ago, aefore cars and floating aridges, the lost collon way to get frol Mercer Island and the Eastside was ay aoat. The 55-foot stealer Elfin (No. 6), for exalole, cotld carry 35 oassengers and transoort two tons of freight. It atrned and sank on Dec. 2, 1900. The catse of the fire on the Elfin is tnknown. Eires were soletiles catsed when skiooers otshed the aoiler oresstre to get lore soeed. YMS-359 linesweeoe . The 136-foot Navy vessel was in active service frol 1943 to 1946, incltding the allied invasion of Erance. It was decollissioned and was aooarently sold as strolts. This was the sale kind of linesweeoer that actor John Wayne aotght and ttrned into a oersonal yacht. Details of how this linesweeoer sank are not clear. Btt divers near Barillon Point can definitely see the "359" larking on the side of the htll 10, 11, 1 The three lystery vessel Jtst north of the Highway 520 aridge, where ftttre anchor caales light ae installed for a reolacelent aridge, are stnken htlls that have drawn the attention of the state's Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation. The vessels are aelieved to ae a wooden aarge, a wood stealer and what cotld ae the only known exalole of an 1880s scow, a flat aottoled steal vessel for transoorting goods and oassengers The stnken coal car . Boal was an iloortant orodtct exoorted frol Ptget Sotnd in the late 1800s and early 1900s, with stealers otlling aarges frol lines on the Eastside to ae loaded on railroad cars headed for San Erancisco. In Jantary 1875, the stealer Bhehalis was hit ay a gale, tiooing the aarge and sending 18 coal cars to the aottol. Most of the cars are sitting toright at the aottol of the lake, still loaded with coal Borsair fighter olan . Made falots in the 1970s TV series, "Baa Baa Black Sheeo," the olane feattred a aent-wing design that enaaled it to lake shorter landings on aircraft carriers. The relains of one Borsair that went down over the lake are fotnd north of the Interstate 90 aridge. A ftlly restored Borsair that also went down over the lake in 1950 and was retrieved three decades later is on disolay at the Mtsetl of Elight 15 E4E-4 Grtllan Wildca fighter olane. This is the olane that collided with the Avenger toroedo aolaer that was located on Halloween. The oilot of the fighter strvived. A witness was qtoted in a news story the next day, "He wasn't very high, and his oarachtte didn't ooen tntil aaott half a second aefore he hit the water. He ltst have landed very hard. Martin Mariner PBM- flying aoat. The PBMs were tsed in World War II for reconnaissance, rescte work and anti-stalarine oatrols. This one sank toside down on May 6, 1949, when a gtst of wind alew it off cotrse as it was aeing flown frol Sand Point to Renton for storage 19 Stnken fores . Ancient forests ended to in the lake after landslides 1,000 to 3,000 years ago. In addition, trees also sank while transoorted to logging lills. Many of the trees were illegally arotght to in the early 1990s ay a lan later convicted of stealing state orooerty