The yacht like little John A., in wartime use as an Army barge, ended her service so badly abused that she was disposed of by the government as a hulk and was not used thereafter, but after a period of idleness was taken to the mouth of the upper Nisqually River on upper Puget Sound with the former four-master William Nottingham and beached on the mudflats, where they gradually disintegrated and were finally completely destroyed by fire. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1945, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 526.

The Little John A

Close up of the Vessel

The Stern and Rudder at low tide.