Magellan - Ship Biographies

A. J. Fuller

(Square rigger) - Another of the fast vanishing breed Of American wooden square- riggers, the splendid old A J. Fuller of 1881, met her end in 1918. rae 1,849-ton vessel had once been a unit of Flint & Company's fleet of notable Downeast skysail -yarders. Passing to the California Shipping Co. at the turn of the century, and later to Capt. Derrnot, she was engaged for some years in the Puget Sound - Australian timber trade and made a number of excellent passages despite the later reduction of her sail area. During the war she was engaged in the Alaska salmon trade under the houseflag of Northwestern Fisheries Co. She arrived at Seattle late in October with a full cargo of canned salmon. On October 30shewas moored at a buoy in the harbor, having discharged several hundred passengers consisting of fishermen and cannery workers brought down from the company's station at Uyak, Kodiak Island. It was planned to remove her cargo when space became available at the company's pier. A dense fog blanketed Elliott Bay during the night and early morning hours. At 1:00 a.m. the 0. S.K. trans-Pacific steamship Marico Maru, entering port at the terminati

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A.j. Fuller

(Square rigger) - Built in 1881 in Bath, Maine, the 1849 ton, 229 foot, square rigged ship, A.J. Fuller was originally a notable Down east sky sail-yarder for the Flint & Company fleet. Purchased at the turn of the century by the California Shipping Company and subsequently by Capt- Dermot, she was engaged for several years in the Puget Sound-Australian timber trade. After the outbreak of World War I the A.J. Fuller sailed under the Northwestern Fisheries Company in the Alaskan salmon trade. On October 30, 1919 she arrived in Seattle with a full load of salmon and salt. While sitting at anchor in a dense fog, the steamship Mexico Maru entered the port on a regular trans-Pacific run and collided with the A.J. Fuller. The ten foot hole torn in the bow of the wooden ship caused her to rapidly sink. Although salvage was deemed possible the underwriters decided against it. The approximate position of the A.J. Fuller is 2000 ft offshore of Harbor Island at a depth of 240 feet. (Newell 1966:163, 300). Some months after the vessel sank Captain Henry Finch, a Seattle diver, descended to the upper yard of the square rigger which was approximately

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A.j.fuller

- Locked in Bering Sea ice. Built at Bath, Maine in 1881 by J. McDonald. Lost in a collision in Elliot Bay in 1918. Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 46.

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Adelaide Metcalf

The ship ADELAIDE METCALF, 673 tons, was built in Damariscotta, Maine, in 1849, and registered at New York on 7 May 1850 [Forrest R. Holdcamper, comp., List of American-flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867 (Record Groups 41 and 36), National Archives Publication 68-10, Special Lists 22 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1968), p. 17]. There is no reference to her in either Fairburn's Merchant Sail or Cutler's Queens of the Western Ocean, so I know nothing about her other than the following 2 voyages to New York: 1852 Apr 29 - Ship ADELAIDE METCALF, of Boston, Scott, master, arrives at New York, 27 days from Antwerp, with 337 passengers to R. W. Trundy. 1855 Mar 27 - Ship ADELAIDE METCALF, Hanson, master, arrives at New York, from Havre 14 Feb 1855, with 136 passengers to Metcalf & Lovejoy. -

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Adeline Foss

(Tug) - Built at Tacoma in 1898. 66 gross tons. 72.2 feet length. Owned by FossLaunch and Tug. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 8.

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Adeline Foss.

(Tugboat) - The second Adeline Foss was built in 1943 at the Northwest Shipping Company at Bellingham as one of sixty MIKI-Class tugs used by the U.S. Army. She served in Alaska and was given the name SGT. Raymond Baser. After the war she was placed in the reserve fleet until purchased by Foss. After a brief lay-up she was refurbished and operated in Alaskan and Northwestern waters. After service including several times in reserve status she was sold in April 1977 to the Belco Petroleum Company of Callao, Peru and was given the name Ann W. Michael Skalley, The Adeline Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 199.

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Admiral Rodnf

(Steamer) - Wood steainer; 1 deck, 2 masts; 1,101 tons; 175 x 36 x 14 feet; 19 cre\%,; 75 passengers; 8 knots. Built in 1899 at Fairhaveii, California, as Despatch. Purchased by Admiral Line in 1919. Operated between 1919 and 1930 in Alaskan trade. Burned at Seattle in 1937. Giles T. Brown, Principal Vessels in the Pacific Coastwise Trade, Ships that sail no more , Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966 p. 243-257

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Affon

See LIGURIA.

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Afra

See JUNO.

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Afric

The "Afric" was a 11,948 gross ton ship, built by Harland & Wolff, Belfast for the White Star Line's Australian trade in 1899. She had one funnel, four masts, refrigerated cargo space for the carriage of frozen meat, twin screws and a speed of 14 knots. There was accommodation for 350 single-class passengers. She commenced her maiden voyage on 8th Feb.1899 when she left Liverpool on a trial run to New York, after which she returned to Belfast for some months to allow alterations to be carried out. On 9th Sept.1899 she sailed from Liverpool for Capetown, Albany, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. She continued on the Australia service until 12th Feb.1917 when she was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Eddystone Rock, English Channel. [North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber] -

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African (2)

See CITY OF LIMERICK .

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African (1)

See SOVEREIGN.

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African Queen

- Archie Binns, Sea in the Forest, p. 185.

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African Queen

(Steamboat) - The African Queen, the 30-foot steamboat that starred with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in the motion picture African Queen, was purchased in San Francisco by Hal Bailey of Eugene for use in passenger service on the Deschutes River at a residential development south of Bend, Oregon. The boat was brought from the Congo several years earlier after years of work there as a mail and passenger boat. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.81.

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Agnes Foss

(Tugboat) - The Agnes Foss was constructed for the U.S. Army in 1904 as the Colonel George Armistead. Converted to a tug in 1942 and renamed. Sold by Foss in 1970 and renamed Celtic, working in Philippine waters. (Marine Digest. August 31, 1985, p. 6. Also mentioned in Marine Digest. August 25, 1985 as the Colonel George Armistead.

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Agnes Foss (2

(Tugboat) - The Foss Company's second AGNES was built by McDermott Shipyard Group of Amelia Louisiana for the Inland River Transportation Company of Clayton, Missouri. They named her OCEAN STAR and she towed between ports on the Gulf Coast and, the Caribbean. Though her home port was St. Louis, she had none of the characteristics of a Mississippi river boat. The OCEAN STAR was a standard design McDermott ocean-class tug of 3,000-horsepower. Her service for Foss began in the Alaska and Coastwise area but by the end of the 1970s most of her time was begin spent on the Gulf and East Coasts. Michael Skalley, The Agnes Foss (2) , Foss, ninety years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 288.

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Alba (of 1920)

See SIERRA VENTANA (1) .

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Alf, P. 113

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Alfa

(Gas screw) - American gas screw, 36 tons, wrecked near Ocean Park, Washington, September 19, 1924. The craft was wrecked while trying to land an illegal cargo of liquor on Klipsan Beach. The crew narrowly escaped with their lives and the vessel was leveled by the surf. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Alfonso Xii

See HAVEL.

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Alfonso Xiii

See OCEANA.

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Alfred

The ALFRED, variously described as a ship or a bark, was built in Lulea, Sweden, in 1842, and was originally named AUSTRALIA. On 30 November 1844, she was purchased from Liliewalch of Stockholm by the Hamburg firm of Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn, who renamed her ALFRED, despite the fact that the firm already owned another vessel of this name. 225 Commerzlasten; 133.5 x 32.8 x 19.11 Hamburg Fusse (1 Hamburg Fuss =3D .2=86 meters) length x beam x depth of hold, "zwischen den Steven".. Masters: 1847-1847 - J. Lafrenz; 1847-1851 - H. E. Decker; 1851-1854 - H. Bruhns. Voyages: 1845 - New Orleans; 1845-1846 - Valparaiso/Lima; 1846-1847 - Havre/intermediate ports/New York; 1847-1848 - Arracan/London; 1848-1849 - Adelaide/Callao; 1849-1850 - Adelaide/intermediate ports/London; 1851-1852 - New York/Valparaiso; 1852-1853 - Valdivia/Valparaiso/Iquique; 1853-1854 - Melbourne/intermediate ports/Antwerp. The ALFRED was sold to Norwegian interests in 1855, renamed RHEA, and placed under the command of Capt. Eckersberg. I have no information on her later history or ultimate fate [Walter Kresse, ed., Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F., Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol. 1, p. 165].-

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Alfred Adams

(Schooner) - The Alfred Adams, Capt. W. H. Dyer, was captured and ordered to Sitka, but the Indian crew, having a suspicion of the experience of some of their companions, mutinied, and compelled the captain to go to Victoria, keeping a close watch on the compass to make sure that he went there. The officers of the schooner seized were detained in Sitka for six weeks and then released. E. W. Wright, A Brief History of the British Columbia Sealing Industry, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.431-2.

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Alfred I. Bea

(Built in Tacoma in 1898) - Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 203.

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Alice Stofen

(Schooner) - A remarkable voyage from San Francisco to Point Barrow was completed in August by H. C. Slate, an old Arctic trader, who purchased the 1 7 -ton bay scow schooner Alice Stofen, a venerable craft of 46 years, loaded her with trading goods, and took her from the Golden Gate to the Arctic. Peter Peterson was mate, cook and crew, and the ancient Alice Stofen with her tiller lashed, was said to have sailed herself a good portion of the voyage. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 203.

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Alsterfee

See ORANASIA .

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Amalfi

The "Amalfi" was built by M.Pearse & Co, Stockton in 1881 for the Sloman Line of Hamburg. She was a 2,345 gross ton ship, length 300.5ft x beam 36.1ft, one funnel, three masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 600-3rd class. Launched on 7/5/1881, she sailed on the Hamburg - Australia service until 1886 when she came under the control of the newly formed Union Line. She commenced her first Hamburg - New York voyage on 19/5/1886 and started her last voyage on this service on 27/7/1898. In 1911 she was sold to Swedish owners and renamed "Ada". On 9/6/1917 she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.61, while 25 miles east of Fair Isle. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1166] -

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Amerique (2) (of 1926)

SIERRA VENTANA (1) .

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Anafi

(719 foot built carrier) - Maiden voyage ceremonies in Tacoma, Marine Digest. (October 26, 1985), p. 20. (il).

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Andrew Foss

(Tractor tug) - Third of four Foss Tractor Tugs Christened, November 12, The Marine Digest. November 20, 1982. Pierce 28 in Seattle. by Dr. Marlen Forde Casey. (il). Andrew Foss assisting new APL containership President Lincoln on the day following the tug's christening, The Marine Digest. November 27, 1982, p. 12 and 14.

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Andrew Foss

(Tug) - The steam tug Andrew Foss, formerly the Wallows, having recently had her house destroyed and machinery damaged by fire, was rebuilt and repowered with a 500-horsepower diesel. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 386.

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Andrew Foss (

(Tug) - The first Andrew Foss was built in 1905 by the Puget Sound Engineering Works of Seattle for the U.S. Army. Named the Lt. George M. Harris the vessel acted as a tender for the coastal defense forts. She worked in California until purchased by Foss in 1923 and after an event filled career she was sunk in a collision with the Macloufay of the Alaska Ship Lines on August 4, 1951. Michael Skalley, Foss, ninety years of towboating, 1981.

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Anna E Fay

(Tug) - The shallow-draft propeller tug Anna E. Fay, which had been used by the North American Transportation & Trading Co. at the mouth of the Yukon, was rebuilt at Seattle as the freight steamer A W. Sterrett and was placed on the Seattle - Tacoma freight route by the Merchants' Transportation Co. of Tacoma, which had previously purchased the small freighter T W Lake from the Puget Sound Navigation Co., and was operating the steamer Albion. The Sterrett, as rebuilt, was of 204 tons, with dimensions of 99.8 x 32.6 x 6.4 and was driven by twin screws and two small steam engines developing a total of 75 horsepower. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1906, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 118.

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Anna Foss

- 109. 59 gross tons. 68.7 feet # 2040707. Foss Launch and Tug Company of Tacoma. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 110.

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Anna Foss (1)

(Tugboat) - The Anna Foss was a wooden two deck boat built in Tacoma in 1907 and named the Vigilant. She was owned by the Wallace Towboat Company of Tacoma who sold her to the Cascade Tugboat Company. After other owners she was purchased through a bankruptcy on August 1, 1933 by Foss. After a long period of service ending August 2, 1968 the vessel was sold and anchored in Colvos Passage where she sank on September 16, 1969. (Michael Skalley, Foss, Ninety years of Towboating.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 91.).

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Anna Foss (3)

(Tugboat) - Of all the used tugs purchased by Foss, the ANNA came with the most unusual name-MR. CHUCK. The tug was built in 1970 by the Hudson Marine Services of Seward, Alaska for shallow river work in Alaska. As a river boat she was of light draft, wide beam, high power, and a square bow for pushing barges on the winding rivers flowing into various Alaskan waters. By pushing instead of towing, towboat and barge become one tightly connected unit to insure positive control and handling, so essential in swift-flowing, bar-strewn rivers. After some financial difficulties her owner sold her to Foss in January of 1972. Before final outfitting she was given a Foss name and was put on Alaska service. Later she was returned to Seattle and was reworked into LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) barge service. Michael Skalley, The Anna Foss (3) , Foss, ninety years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 282.

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Anne Hanify

(Steam schooner) - The Kruse & Banks yard at North Bend completed the 1,340-ton Anne Hanify and Ryder Hanify, 235 x 43 x 17.7, with (16, 27, 46 x 33) triple-expansion engines and twin water tube bouers developing 1,000 horsepower. These two fine steam schooners entered the coastwise service of J. R. Hanify Co. of San Francisco, joining the Santa Barbara of 1900 and Santa Monica of 1902. The contrast between the old and new vessels of the Hanify fleet was typical of the transition of the wooden steam schooner during the first two decades of the century. The older steamers were of less than half the tonnage and carrying capacity of the new. The Santa Barbara was of 695 tons, 183.5 x 37.5 x 13.5, with a single water tube boiler and engine developing 550 horsepower, while the Santa Monica, with a tonnage of 497 and dimensions of 166 x 34 x 12, was powered with a compound (14, 32 x 24) engine and single Scotch boiler rated at 400 horsepower. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 305.

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Annie Faxon

(Ship) - Steamer Annie Faxon at Lewiston, Idaho. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 249 and 411.

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Annie Faxon

(Steamer) - To complete the splendid improvements in their service over the entire line, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company launched the sternwheeler Annie Faxon at Celilo, May 31, 1877. The steamer was one hundred and sixty-five feet long, thirty-seven feet beam, five feet six inches hold, with engines from the Yakima seventeen by seventy-two inches. Capt. F. W. Baughman was in command in 1878 and had with him E. W. Spencer and W. P. Gray, pilots, John Tell, mate, Peter De Huff, chief engineer, E. O. Anderson, second engineer, W. T. Stevens, purser. The Faxon was subsequently in charge of Captains Pingston, Fred Wilson and J. W. Troup until 1887, when she was rebuilt, and from that time until August, 1893, she was handled by Captain Baughman and his son Harry. While in charge of the latter, August 14, 1893, she exploded her boiler, killing eight people (see wreck of Annie Faxon). Her engines were afterward removed from the wreck and placed in the new steamer Lewiston, completed in 1894. E. W. Wright, Organization of Pacific Coast S. S. Co., Fierce Competition on Ocean Routes, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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Arabic (1) (of 1881)

See SPAARNDAM .

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Arthur Foss

- Two well-known Northwest vessels, the cannery steamer General W. C. Gorgas of Libby, McNeill & Libby, and the Foss Company's steam tug Arthur Foss, changed their names temporarily as featured players in the motion picture Tugboat Annie, which was partially filmed on Puget Sound. The Gorgas portrayed the mythical Alaska passenger vessel Glacier Queen, while the Arthur Foss took the part of Annie's famous fictional towboat Narcissus. When the film was shown at Tacoma in August, the first pre-planned tugboat race was held in Commencement Bay, Marie Dressler, who portrayed Capt. Annie Brennan, awarding the Tugboat Annie Trophy to the tug Peter Foss, Capt. Arthur Hofstead, which crossed the finish line a scant three feet ahead of the Olson Tug Boat Company's Capt. 0. G. Olson. Capt. Louis Torgesen. Other participants were Fearless, Capt. Ed. Telleson, Tacoma Tug & Barge Co.; Alice, Capt. Harold Nelson, Delta V. Smyth Towing Co., Olympia; Advance, Capt. Charles Skewers, Cascade Tug Boat Co.; and Adelphus, Capt. W. P. Thornton, EHiott Bay Towing Co. of Seattle. Shaver's James W. was winner by six lengths over Hosford's Cruiser in the Columbia

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Arthur Foss

(Tug) - During the same month, the 5,000-horsepower Arthur Foss, in charge of Capt. Guy Johnson, towed the famous aircraft carrier Princeton from Long Beach, California to Zidell Explorations' Tacoma shipbreaking yard in just 13 days, maintaining an average speed of 100 miles a day. Later in the year she also towed the carrier Philippine Sea north for scrapping. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1971, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.96.

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Arthur Foss (

- During World War II the Army Transport Service built a number of large steam-uniflow tugs on the East Coast and the ARTHUR FOSS, ex-LT-784, was one of the group. She operated out of the New York Port of Embarkation In general towing service along the Atlantic Seaboard and on trans-Atlantic convoy duty. After a lay-up after the war Foss purchased the veessel on January 23, 1962. She operated at a wide variety of locations on long tows and eventually was laid up in the Foss yard in Seattle. The Arthur Foss, (2) , Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 222.

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Asiatic (of 1881)

See SPAARNDAM .

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Asiatic Prince (of 1896 & 1898)

See PRINCE LINE FREIGHTERS

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Aspenleaf

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B. F. Stone (tug)

The tug B. F. Stone of Willamette Tug & Barge Co. was upset by a hog fuel barge she had under tow near Prescott and also sank. Capt. Bob Wilson and Engineer Howard Sternberg escaped safely and this vessel was also salvaged and repaired. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 575.

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B. F. Stone (tugboat)

The 65-foot motor tug B. F. Stone, with 350-horsepower diesel engine, was completed at Astoria in 1931. On Coos Bay, where a large fleet of small passenger, freight and towing vessels had been built in past years, no new construction of this type was recorded for 11 years after 1930. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1931, The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 411.

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B. F. Stone (tugboat)

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Bainbridge (ferry)

Built in 1928. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205. Maritime memories; the Bainbridge built in 1928 at Houghton on Lake Washington, Marine Digest. June 7, 1986, p. 5. Transferred to Canadian ownershp and registry in 1950. In the 1980s was in retirement on the Fraser River. (il). Save the Bainbridge, Marine Digest. December 27, 1986, p. 8.

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Bainbridge (ferry)

The 188-foot motor ferry Bainbridge, designed by Capt. John L. Anderson for the Seattle-Port Blakeley route of the Kitsap County Transportation Co., was launched at Houghton. She was fitted with an 800-horsepower Waswngton-Estep diesel, giving her a service speed of 11 knots. With the launching of this vessel, the name of the company's steamboat Bainbridge was changed to Winslow. The ferry was first placed in charge of Capt. C. T. Wyatt and Capt. Alfred Welfare, with James Gibson as chief engineer and George Benson and Maldor Jacobsen, mates. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 385.

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Bainbridge (ferry)

The only sizeable passenger and freight steamer built for Puget Sound service in 1915 was the Bainbridge, a steel-hulled vessel of 313 tons with dimensions of 109.7 x 25 x 8.4, built at the Lake Washington Shipyards, Seattle, for the Eagle Harbor Transportation Co. to succeed the Florence K on the Seattle -Winslow route, the latter vessel passing to the Port Washington Route. The Bainbridge was fitted with a triple-expansion engine of 650 horsepower, with two water tube boilers. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 254.

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Balclutha (full Rigger)

Wrecks in Alaskan waters in 1904 included the full -rigged ship Balclutha, San Francisco for Karluk, which went ashore May 12 in Geese Island Strait. The ship was listed as a total loss, but was subsequently salvaged and outlived allthe other big sailing vessels on the Pacific Coast. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1904. H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 101.

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Ballard (ferryboat)

Built in Everett in 1900. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 104. Ex City of Everett. The City of Everett in its third transformation, into diesel ferry Ballard in 1931, Marine Digest (November 16, 1986), p. 6.

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Bamfield

No data available (fish packer) Reg- No. 141197 Owner: Captain A-W Abbott, 1528 Foul Bay Road, Victoria. Sunk by CPR Steamer Princess Joan, June 6, 1930, while leaving Victoria harbour on first rum running trip. No lives lost. Fraser Miles. Slow boat on Rum Row. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing Company, 1992.

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Baranof

The first post-war craft designed and built specifically for cannery service, the Tebenkof and Baranof were designed by H. C. Hanson and built at Bellingham for the Pacific American Fisheries. They were 80 feet in overall length, 24.6 beam and six feet moulded depth. Power was provided by two Buda diesels with two - to - one reduction gears swinging 44 x 38-inch three-bladed propellers and giving a service speed of 9.4 knots, somewhat in excess of that of the converted government BSP's in use on the commercial fishery. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle:Superior Publishing Company, 1966.,p. 944.

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Baranof (steamer)

The steamship Baranof of the Alaska Steamship Co. was chartered by the Continental Tours of San Francisco for a 71 -day winter cruise to South American ports via the Straits of Magellan, returning by way of the Panama Canal, but the projected cruise was canceled late in the year because of unsettled world conditions due to the European war. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 474.

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Baranof (steamer)

The imminence of war did not entirely eliminate industrial disputes in 1941, although stoppages by this cause were less frequent and of shorter duration than in the past. Late in September the Alaska steamship Baranof, with 170 passengers and cargo including 1,200 tons of strategic military supplies, was held at the dock in Seattle for more than five days when members of the marine fireman's union protested the qualifications of one of the ship's cooks. The liner eventually sailed with both the unpopular cook and the discontented firemen aboard. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior, 1966.

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Baranof (tug)

Hubert Bancroft. History of the Northwest Coast, 1543-1800, II, p. 640.

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Barbara Foss (3) (tugboat)

The third BARBARA FOSS, a new and completely engine-automated tug, was built by the McDermott Shipyard Group in New Iberia, Louisiana for heavy-duty towing as part of the upgrading program to modernize the Foss ocean fleet. The tug is 120 feet long with a 34 feet beam. Upon acceptance by Foss, the BARBARA, under command of Captain Chuck Crawford, left Galveston, Texas for Seattle on July 5th, arriving three weeks later with no first-voyage miseries to report. The Barbara was put to work in three area of Foss interest, Alaska, Coastwise and Ocean work. Michael Skalley, The Barbara Foss (3) , Foss, ninety years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 289.

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Barbara Foss (tugboat)

The Barbara Foss was built at the Barbee Marine Yard at Kennydale, Washington in 1944. She was 117 feet long with a beam of 28 feet. She began work for the Foss company after World War II having been employed by the Army Transport Service. On May 21, 1973 the Barbara was transferred to Dillingham Tug and Barge in Honolulu and in the summer of 1975 was given to the Navy to be used in target practice. Michael Skalley, The Barbara Foss (2 Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981. p. 146.

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Barbara Foss. (1) (tugboat)

The Barbara Foss (1) was built as the tug WEGO in the John Nelson shipyard of Seattle in 1925. She was launched on September 25, 1925 and was sunk May 31, 1942 on the Port Angeles to Seattle route. The remains of the tug were not found. Michael Skalley. Foss. One hundred years of towboating, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 75.

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Bardaland (freighter)

The Swedish freighter Bardaland arrived at San Francisco earlier in the year with a shipment of Soviet gold bullion valued at $11,220,150. The charming custom of the Russians paying in gold for their purchases of American products somewhat offset a number of less loveable traits, including a marked carelessness in the niceties of maritime housekeeping. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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Bayfield

1927. 7 gross tons. 30.4 feet #226505. Severin Aurdal, Aberdeen, Washington. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 118.

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Bayfield

Built in Tacoma in 1927 for Severin Aurdal of Aberdeen. 7 gross tons. 30.4 feet #226505. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 118.

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Bear (ferry)

Bear, side-wheel gas ferry with 46 x 16-foot hull and 65 x 25-foot deck providing space for four automobiles or 200 passengers, designed, built and operated by Capt. O. D. Treiber on the Underwood-Hood River crossing of the Columbia River, Treiber having begun commercial boating in this area in 1908 at the age of 18. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1914, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.244.

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Bear (fishboat)

The Bear, a small motor fishing vessel, lost at sea after leaving Tillamook for Ilwaco February 20 in 50-mile winds and 35 foot seas, the owner, Roy Burgess and his son being drowned. Gordon Newell. The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 690-91.

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Bear Of Oakland

Steam auxiliary barkentine with members of the Byrd Expedition aboard. Formerly the Bear, built in 1874 in Scotland. Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 57.

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Beaver (freight Boat)

Beaver, 14 -ton gasoline freight boat built at Astoria in 1911 and owned by Edward A. McGrath, Jr of that port, stranded on Clatsop Spit Columbia River entrance, August 3, 1940, Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 484.

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Beeline (ferryboat)

Ex Florence K. Ex Gloria. Built in Tacoma in 1903. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205. Florence K started life as a mosquito fleet steamer, ended it as a quick little ferryu called Beeline, Marine Digest. (July 27, 1895), p. 7. Converted to ferry in 1926, Marine Digest. (August 3, 1985), p. 8 (il). G. F. Shrader, Letter to the editor regarding how the Beeline was acquired by the Navy to operate between Indian Island and Hadlock during Word War II, Marine Digest. August 24, 1985, p. 4.

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Belfast

Built in 1874 in Belfast. Visited Todd shipyards in Seattle. Down The Ways June 15, 1919, p. 21.

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Belfast (steamer)

The coastwise steamship Belfast owned by Kemp & Waring of Vancouver, burned to the water's edge at False Narrows near Nanaimo early in July, 1911, her crew of seven also having a narrow escape from the flames. Her cargo of lime from Blubber Bay for Seattle was believed to have ignited. The 300-ton twin-screw steamer was a total loss. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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Belle Of Clarksville (steamboat)

Louis C. Hunter. . Steamboats on the western rivers. Cambridge: Harvard University, p. 176.

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Belle Of Oregon

Northwest Magazine. January 16, 1972.

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Belle Of The West (steamboat)

Louis C. Hunter. . Steamboats on the western rivers. Cambridge: Harvard University, p. 282.

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Ben Franklin (steamboat)

Louis C. Hunter. . Steamboats on the western rivers. Cambridge: Harvard University, p. 401, 648.

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Benjamin F. Packard

America West. (March, 1970). Photograph taked from astern. Inside the front cover of the magazine. (il). In drydock about 1900. Built at Bath in 1883, Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 61. Loading at Port Blakely Mill around 1900. Gibbs, Jim. Pacific Square Riggers. Seattle: Superior, 1969., p. 31.

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Benjamin F. Packard

With the arrival of the steamship Eastern Gale purchased by the NOrthwestern Fisheries Company of Seattle the ships St. Paul and Benj. F. Packard and the bark Guy C. Goss were retired from the service of the packing company. The Packard was sold to the Hansen & Nieder Lumber Co. of Seattle and dispatched to the East Coast, where it was planned to use her as a coal barge. She was, however, taken over by Theodore Roosevelt Pell of New York, who hoped to keep her afloat as a museum, and for a time was moored at the foot of 129th Street, New York. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 363.

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Benjamin F. Packard

The ship Benjamin F. Packard, idle at Seattle since 1908, was purchased by Northwestern Fisheries Company. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 163.

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Benjamin F. Packard (fully Rigged Ship)

The wooden full-rigged ship Benjamin F. Packard, 2,156 tons, built by Goss, Sawyer & Packard at Bath, Me. in 1883, was purchased by Northwestern Fisheries, joining the Northwest salmon fleet and making yearly voyages north for the next 16 years. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1908, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966.

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Benjamin Franklin

Ed Garrison, Along the waterfront, Tacoma News Tribune. January 5, 1958.

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Bergensfjord

See JERUSALEM.

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Bettles (utility Landing Craft)

Bettles, 100-foot commercial utility landing craft, recently sold by Puget Sound Tug & Barge to Mrs. Barbara Kalmback of Wasilla, Alaska, returning from DEW line supply work, stranded and broke up on the rocks in 65-mile winds and heavy seas west of Adak, the eight-man crew being rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Balsam. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXXI.

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Beulah (freighter)

Panamanian motor vessel (freighter), 1,389 gross tons. After weathering a terrific battle with raging seas off the west coast of Vancouver Island and narrowly averting being swept on the rocks, she managed to make her way to Victoria on a 31-degree list. Shortly after, she sank at her moorings in the harbor, December 27, 1937. She resisted eight attempts at being refloated. Finally, on the ninth try by use of a 15-foot cofferdam, March 12, 1938, salvagers were successful. The vessel was a floating mass of wreckage. She was owned by Flood Bros. of Panama and was eventually rebuilt and repaired for a large sum of money. When she got entangled in the gale in Juan de Fuca's graveyard prior to malting Victoria, her steering mechanism was badly damaged. Also first officer Tryve Bragdo was washed overboard and drowned and the boatswain severely injured. The ship was enbound from the South Seas when hit by the gale. She was built in Norway in 1923. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort,

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Blackford (steamer)

The Grays Harbor Motorship Corporation steamer Blackford, on her maiden voyage from Seattle for the West Coast of South America, foundered 250 miles south of Magdalena Bay the same day, later drifting ashore off Rodo Sinaloa. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1918, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966. p. 301.

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Blanco (fishboat)

The 18-ton fishing boat Blanco was run down by an unknown vessel off the Umatilla lightship on August 21, two of her three-man crew being lost. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 449.

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Blanco (fishboat)

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Blatchford (barge)

The wooden Shipping Board Blatchford, in use for some years as a floating grain elevator in False Creek, B. C., was rebuilt in 1929 as a log barge by the Allison Logging Co. of Vancouver. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 402.

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Blokshif No 5

See HOLSATIA.

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Blossom (frigate)

Philip H. Parrish. Before the Covered Wagon, Philip H. Before the Covered Wagon, p. 228. Hubert Bancroft. History of the Northwest Coast, 1543-1800, I, p. 339. Hubert Bancroft. History of the Northwest Coast, 1543-1800, II, p. 293. Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State , II, p. 36. Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, Barry M. The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 27, 41, 42, 49. Edgar Stewart. Washington Northwest Frontier., I, p. 194. Arrival at Fort George. Bancroft, H.H. History of Oregon., I, p. 216. Captain Hickey formally surrendered Astoria, Horace Lyman. History of Oregon., II, p. 342. Roberts, p. 67.

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Blue Magpie (japanese Freighter)

Freighter Blue Magpie ran around, split apart on Newport jetty November 20, Marine Digest. November 26, 1983, p. 3. Wrecked ship doesn't close Newport channel, The Marine Digest. December 3, 1983, p. 23. Blue Magpie owners agree to $306,700 bill for oil spill clean-up, The Marine Digest. July 28, 1984, p. 22.

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Blue Pacific (seiner)

The 177-foot tuna seiner Blue Pacific was built by Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. for Capt. Roger Soares, who placed her in operation for Van Camp Seafoods. Although larger tuna boats had been converted from surplus naval vessels, Blue Pacific was, at the time of her completion, the largest ever built from the keel up. Her 2,500-horsepower GM diesel provided a service speed of 14 1/2 knots with a cruising range of 11,000 miles. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1967, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XLI.

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Blunts Reef Lightship No 100 (lightship)

Jim Gibbs, Sentinels of the North Pacific., p. 178.

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Blunts Reef Lightship No 523 (lightship)

GSPN p. 178-180.

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Bockonoff

Built in Bellingham during World War One. Jacobin, With the colors. p. 273.

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Bohemia (full Rigged Ship)

The full-rigged ships Bohemia and Indiana, built at Bath, Me. in 1875 and 1876 respectively, were purchased from the Alaska Packers by Joseph Markowitz of Oakland for scrap, but were subsequently resold to Cecil B. DeMille and taken to permanent moorings in southern California for use in motion pictures. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 363.

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Boneta (freighter)

Unable to compete in the passenger trade with the fast and luxurious -Idaho, Reynolds & McDonald built the champion lake freight hauler Boneta, originally 96 feet in length by 18 feet beam, but later lengthened 25 feet, and incorporated the White Star Navigation Co. The ensuing rivalry was intense. On one occasion the Boneta, upbound on the St. Joe River, rammed the Idaho coming down. Capt. Reynolds claimed the Idaho chased him clear across the river with the intention of sinking the Boneta, Capt. Jan Spaulding of the Idaho claimed a confusion in signals. As the lake vessels were not subject to government inspection, no legal ruling was made. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1903, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 92.

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Boston (sloop Of War)

Attacked by Indians. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, I, p. 55. House resolution. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, I, 139.

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Brandywine (frigate)

1,726 tons, 175' x 45' x 14'. Built at Washington Navy Yard, 1825; burned at Norfolk, 3 September 1861; razed and sold, 1867. Armament: 33 24-pdrs., 22 42-pdrs. Vincent Ponko, Jr. Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974., p. 10.

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Bremerton (ferry)

Formerly the Kitsap. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205.

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Brenda Gail (fishing Vessel)

A number of small commercial fishing vessels were lost along the southern Oregon coast in 1966. The 12-ton Brenda Gail capsized at Port Orford on March 4, with the loss of one of the men aboard. The other reached shore supported by a fishbox which floated off the deck. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXXI.

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Brentwood (freighter)

Brentwood, (ex-Cascade of 1902), 100-foot coastal freighter owned by Coast Ferries Ltd., beached in Howe Sound by Capt. Kenneth Watt when she began taking on water while outward bound from Vancouver in October. She was refloated the following day and after temporary repairs were made, was able to return to Vancouver under her own power, but following survey was declared a constructive total loss. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.71.

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Brinkerhoff 1 (oil Drilling Rig)

The Brinkerhoff 1, first offshore oil drilling rig built on Puget Sound, was completed by Marine Iron Works, Tacoma, for operation in the Philippines. This unique rig was built on a stardard 400 x 76-foot Crowley Martime barge, Crowley having joined with the Brinkerhoff oil-- drilling firm to finance the project. The high-capacity barge hull with its large dry and liquid storage facilities below decks, enabled the rig to continue long periods of drilling in remote locations following its long tow to the Philippines by two Red Stack tugs. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.162.

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Brinkerhoff 1 (oil Drilling Rig)

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British Columbia (freighter)

The freighter British Columbia was sold by Griffiths in 1919 to the Union Steamship Co. of Vancouver, who operated her as the Chilliwack, replacing the historic Comox of 1891, the first steel vessel assembled in British Columbia, which was sold for scrapping but was resold to Central American owners and renamed Alejandro. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 306.

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Brookdale (wooden Steam Freighter)

S.S. Brookdale of 1918, Sea Chest. March, 1984, p. 91-94. Launched at Aberdeen on August 8, 1918.

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Brookfield (towboat)

Soon after the completion of the Chickamauga the first oil-engined towboat appeared on the lower Columbia. The 65-foot Broofield was placed in service at Astoria by the Brookfield Quarry & Towing Co. handling heavy sand and gravel barges and log booms and doing passenger work. She was fitted with the first of the Fairbanks-Morse CO type heavy oil engines, a 100-horsepower model built as a prototype for display at Eastern boat shows. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.254.

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Brookfield (tug)

The 65-foot Brookfield was placed in service at Astoria by the Brookfield Quarry & Towing Co. handling heavy sand and gravel barges and log booms and doing passenger work. She was fitted with the first of the Fairbanks-Morse CO type heavy ofl engines, a 100 -horsepower model built as a prototype for display at Eastern boat shows. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior, 1966 p. 254.

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Brynn Foss (tractor Tug)

A new Brynn Foss serves Tacoma. Marine Digest. October 18, 1986, p. 26. This vessel was built by Tacoma Boat and was first named Pacific Tractor. Bruce Morelan of Grayland built an exquisitve working model of the Brynn Foss, Marine Digest. May 3, 1896,p. 6-8.

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Brynn Foss (tug)

A powerful steel harbor tug, the Brynn Foss, was launched by the Reliable Welding Works at Olympia and towed to the Foss boathouse at Tacoma, where an 800-horsepower diesel engine was installed in the 72 -foot craft. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 573.

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Brynn Foss (tugboat)

In 1952 the Reliable Welding Works of Olympia, Washington constructed a 68 foot tug with a 21 foot beam vessel that was to be state of the art for the Foss Company. The Brynn Foss worked Puget Sound for Foss in Tacoma, and later in Everett and Bellingham. Her engine gave out in January of 1978 and soon thereafter she was put in layup. Michael Skalley, The Brynn Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 182.

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Buffalo

Don Berry. Majority of Scoundrels., p. 114. Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., 16, 19, 394.

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Buford

William P. Bonney, History of Pierce County II, p. 764.

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Buford (army Transport)

The Alaska-Siberian Navigation Co. was formed in San Francisco by Fred Linderman for the purpose of operating the former Army transport Buford, converted to oil fuel, between that port and St. Michael, Nome, Golovin, Kotzebue Sound and the Siberian coast via Puget Sound. Capt. Louis L. Lane commanded the Buford on her earlier voyages, being succeeded by Capt. J. A. (Dynamite John) O'Brien. Although this shipping enterprise was not successful, ' it provided interesting aspects to the marine history of the region. Film star Buster Keaton staged one of his funnier comedies, The Mariner, aboard the steamer, immortalizing the redoubtable Capt. O'Brien on film. Following the 1923 Alaska season the Buford made a winter cruise from San Francisco to the South Sea Islands via Hawaii. This was the first South Seas cruise ever undertaken from the Pacific Coast. Capt. O'Brien commanded the Buford on this historic cruise, having served during the war as a lieutenant-commander in the Naval Reserve, taking three Shipping Boa

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Buford (steamer)

In a letter to Capt. Harold D. Huycke in 1953 Mr. Linderman wrote, As to the S. S. Bifford, an associate and I purchased her from the government in 1923 and spent considerable money refitting her for passenger and freight service to operate to Nome, Alaska. The Yuba Construction @,o. . . . W. P. Hammond & Co.... who had extensive gold dredging operations near Nome, proposed thatwe enter 'he business in competition with the Alaska Steamship Co. They had had unpleasant experience with the Alaska Steamship Co. and promised all their business in freight and passengers to Nome, which made up the principal business to that port. In that year, 1923, we made three voyages to Nome and did good business, but later that year the Hammond people sold out their dredging operations to the Guggenheim interests. Of course the Guggenheims, who controlled the Alaska Steamship Co.,, had no use for us, so we were left out on a limb. This vessel was not a lumber ship and had too small a freight capacity to compete in offshore bus

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Bunker Hill (aircraft Carrier)

There was no let up for the tug CRAIG FOSS during the remainder of 1972 and 1973 towing to Alaska and along the Pacific Coast. Her hardest tow during this period was delivering the decommissioned aircraft carrier, BUNKER HILL, from San Diego to Tacoma for scrapping. The trip north required sixteen days at an average speed of just over three knots! Departure San Diego was July 19th and arrival Tacoma, August 3rd. Towing the BUNKER HILL was the heaviest tow the CRAIG ever attempted. The carrier, 872 feet in length, had a beam of 93 feet and a displacement tonnage of 27,000. She was commissioned in 1943 and served many fronts during World War II including engagements at the Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Truk, Marianas, Hollandia, and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The BUNKER HILL received eleven battle stars for her World War 11 service and the CRAIG's crew felt keen regret at docking such a veteran for scrapping. Michael Skalley, The Bunker Hill, Foss ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 198

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Bunker Hill (u.s. Aircraft Carrier)

Bunker Hill be scrappedby Zidell dismantling, The Tacoma News Tribune. April 10, 1974. (il). The Bunker Hill is dead, Tacoma News Tribune. April 10, 1974.(il).

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Burlington (ferry)

The diesel ferry Burlington 79 x 29.10 x 6, with a 30-horsepower Atlas engine, designed by W. F. Gildner, who drew the plans for the L. P. Hosford and other well-known Columbia River boats, was built at Rainier for Columbia River operation by Multnomah County between Burlington and Sauvies Island. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1932, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 417.

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Burrard Chief

The 99-ton steam tug Burrard Chief, 67.2 x 19.9, was built at Vancouver, B.C. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 304.

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C. F (steamer)

The eight-ton passenger steamer C. F., 42.5 feet in length, with 75 -horsepower compound engine, was built at Tacoma, later being operated on Lake Washington by Adolph Anderson and Louis Birch at Leschi Park. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1906, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 119.

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C.c. Funk (barkentine)

C. C. Funk, a barkentine of 539 tons, was built at Marshfield, Ore., in 1882 by H. R. Reed. A. C. Glaser, San Francisco, was her managing owner, and she drops out of the register just before 1900. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. Mar. 1, 1941. , p. 2.

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C.c. Funk (barkentine)

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C.f.tietgen

See DWINSK.

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Cadaretta (freighter)

An American steamship(freighter), 2,648 tons, stranded off James Island, Washington, May 28, 1945. Refloated and beached near Neah Bay, where salvagers under Captain Loring Hyde repaired her temporarily and later refloated her. She was escorted to port and overhauled. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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Cadzow Forest (bark)

January 4, 1896 Bark, British. She picked up a Columbia pilot in anticipation of entering the river, but the sea rose and she beat it out to disappear with all hands. Don Marshall, Missing at Sea, Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binford and Mort, 1984, p. 183-186.

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Cadzow Forest (bark)

British bark, 1116 tons, pounded unmercifully by heavy seas while attempting inbound crossing of the Columbia River bar January 4, 1896. The pilot had been taken aboard. The vessel suffered heavy damage and the seas were so ugly that the pilot could not be removed by the pilot schooner. Instead the damaged Britisher drifted northward at the mercy of the elements and was lost with her entire crew. The derelict later drifted as far as the British Columbia coast where it foundered. Built at Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, the ill-fated bark had been in command of Captain McInnis. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Cadzow Forest (bark)

British bark, 1116 tons lost with the entire crew in January of 1896 while attempting to cross the Columbia River bar. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 157.

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Caledonia (general Info)

There were five ships with the name "Caledonia". They were all part of the Anchor Line. The first, built in 1840, was the one wrecked in 1851 near Havana. Then came the next, built in 1862, which ran aground in Dec. 1862, was refloated, then wrecked in 1872. The third, built in 1863 was scrapped in 1898. The fourth, built in 1904 was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean on Dec. 4, 1916. The final was built in 1925, was converted to an armed merchant ship in 1939 and renamed the Scotstoun. It was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic on June 13, 1940.

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California

California Whaling Company. Marine Digest. (May 24, 1975), p. 20.

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California

Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State , III, p. 79 Winther, Oscar. Old Oregon Country., p. 143.

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California

Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 109.

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California

From Panama to California in 1849. Horace Lyman. History of Oregon., IV, p. 104. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, I, p. 545-56. Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., II, p. 188. Lucile McDonald. Swan among the Indians., p. 145.

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California

Edward Hungerford. Wells Fargo, p. 253.

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California

J. E. Denny, and the California, Captains Thorn and Carroll, were in the local service between the Sound and the Columbia River, the latter also making trips to Alaska. E. W. Wright, Modern Propeller Steamships Appear, Oregon Railway & Navigation Company Incorporated, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.275.

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California (2)

The steamship CALIFORNIA was built by C. Mitchell & Co, Newcastle-upon- Tyne (ship #450; engines by Wallsend Slipway Co), and launched for the Carr Line, of Hamburg, on 27 December 1882. 2,690 tons; 91,58 x 11,79 meters (length x breadth); straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; screw propulsion, service speed 10 knots; accommodation for 1,250 steerage passengers; crew of 45. 15 March 1883, maiden voyage, Hamburg-New York. 25 May 1888, acquired by HAPAG (the Hamburg-American Line). 13 July 1888, first voyage, Hamburg- New York, for HAPAG. 18 October 1897, last voyage, Hamburg-New York, for HAPAG. 1897, acquired by W. Kunstmann, Stettin. 1898, acquired by Det Forenede D/S, Kopenhagen, and renamed WINLAND. 30 January 1904, on a voyage from Bremerhaven to Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia), stranded off Ronne (on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, off the coast of Sweden); after salvage and repair, sold to T. Ozaki, Uwosaki (later Kobe), Japan, and renamed NISSHIN MARU. 1910, scrapped in Osaka [Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg- Amerika-Linie, Bd. 1: 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler, 1979), p. 46 (photograph); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New_ (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 395]. - [E-mail from Michael Palmer - 15 April 1998]

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In the 1908-09 Lloyd's Register of Shipping:CALIFORNIA.Call sign: TNRB. Official registration #: 115305. Master: E.B. Heath, appointed to the ship in 1905. Rigging: steel twin screw Schooner; 3 decks, promenade deck and shade deck; fitted with electric light. Tonnage: 5,547 tons gross, 4.206 under deck and 2,991 net. Dimensions: 400.3 feet long, 52.3 foot beam and 26.2 feet deep. Built: in 1902 by Caird & Co. Ltd. in Greenock. Propulsion: triple expansion engine with 6 cylinders of 23 1/2, 38 1/2 & 64 inches each pair; stroke 48 inches; 568 nominal horsepower; engine built by the same company as the hull. Owners: Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Port of registry: Liverpool. Flag: British. -

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California (4)

In the 1908-09 Lloyd's Register of Shipping:CALIFORNIA. Call sign: HLQJ. Official registration #: 124230. Master: Captain J. Blaikie, appointed to the ship in 1907. Rigging: steel twin screw Schooner: 3 decks; Water Ballast; fitted with electric light and refrigerating machinery. Tonnage: 8,662 tons gross, 6,791 under deck and 5,403 net. Dimensions: 470 feet long, 58.3 foot beam, 34 feet deep. Poop 70 feet long; Bridge 213 feet long; Forecastle 91 feet long. Built: in 1907 by D. & W. Henderson & Co. Ltd. in Glasgow. Propulsion: triple expansion engine with 6 cylinders of 27 1/2, 46 and 75 inches each pair; stroke 54 inches; 827 nominal horsepower; engine built by the same company as the hull. Owners: Anchor Line Ltd. (Henderson Bros.) Port of registry: Glasgow. Flag: British. -

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California (5)

The "California" of 1929 was built by A.Stephen & Sons, Glasgow for the Anchor Line of Glasgow. This was a 16,792 gross ton ship, length 553ft x beam 70.4ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. There was accommodation for 251-1st, 465-2nd and 1,044-3rd class passengers. Her keel was laid in Oct 1919 but she wasn't launched until 17/4/1923 and commenced her maiden voyage from Glasgow to Moville (Ireland) and New York on 26/8/1923. Between 1924 and 1937 she made approx.20 Autumn / Winter voyages between Liverpool and Bombay as well as Atlantic crossings. In May 1929 her accommodation was altered to carry 206-cabin, 440-tourist and 485-3rd class passengers. Between Nov 1937 and Feb 1938 she made three trooping voyages and in Feb 1939 re-entered service with remodelled 3rd class accommodation, new propellers and a speed of 17 knots. Her last N.Atlantic voyage commenced 4/8/1939 when she left Glasgow for New York, Boston, Moville and Glasgow and in August was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. In April 1942 she became a troopship and on 11/7/1943 was damaged by air attack 320 miles west of Oporto and set on fire with the loss of 46 lives. She was later torpedoed and sunk by an escorting destroyer.[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.469]

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California (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 144, 166.

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California (schooner)

The California, a two-masted schooner of 119 tons, was built at San Francisco in 1869 by Isaac Hall. This was when the Hall brothers were still located in San Francisco as foremen shipwrights. Among the original part owners of the California are listed John N. Ingalls, Robert Sudden, and J. J. Smith of Santa Cruz. The latter was managing owner until 1883. In that year she was apparently wrecked at Hueneme, Calif., and rebuilt there. S. B. Peterson appear as owner in 1884, B. H. Madison in 1886 and the schooner drops out of the 1888 register. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. Mar. 8, 1941..

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California (schooner)

Columbia Bar Pilot Schooner California of 1853, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 48.

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California (schooner)

The California, a two-masted schooner of 119 tons, was built at San Francisco in 1869 by Isaac Hall. This was when the Hall brothers were still located in San Francisco as foremen shipwrights. Among the original part owners of the California are listed John N. In- galls, Robert Sudden, and J. J. Smith of Santa Cruz. The latter was managing owner until 1883. In that year she was apparently wrecked at Hueneme, Calif., and rebuilt there. S. B. Peterson appear as owner in 1884, B. H. Madison in 1886 and the schooner drops out of the 1888 register. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. Mar. 8, 1941..

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California (steamer)

The steamship California, Capt. Gregor Johnson, Capetown for St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, was intercepted in the Atlantic about midway between the Cape Verdes and Brazil on August 13 by a submarine, believed to be Italian. The submarine opened fire with its deck gun, the crew abandoned ship, and the freighter was then sunk by a torpedo. One boat, in charge of Chief Officer Lechner, was picked up 23 days later by the City of Capetown. Capt. Johnson's boat was at sea 32 days before it was picked up by the Norwegian motorship Talisman. The chief engineer later died from the effects of the long voyage in the mate's boat. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1942, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.. p. 511.

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California (steamer)

CALIFORNIA, OREGON, and PANAMA, 1848-1870. The wooden sidewheelers California, Oregon, and Panama, were the first three steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company (PMSS), which had been founded in April 1848 by William Henry Aspinwall. PMSS ordered these ships from Nhew York City shipyards, and they were finished by the end of 1848. The ships built, and indeed PMSS itself had been created, in response to the U.S. Navy's offer to subsidize a mail service between the Pacific side of Panama and the Columbia River in the Oregon territory. In accordance with the mail contract, the steamers incorporated military features so that in time of emergency they could easily be converted to naval auxiliaries. As usual for this time, the wooden vessels were fully rigged for sail should the single -expansion engine break down or run out of coal. The 200-foot-long ships had been designed primarily to carry cargo, although they also had passenger accommodations initially just for sixty persons; later the company added spac

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California (steamer)

The steamship California, known during the early days of her career on the Coast as the Little California, and afterward as the Eureka, was built at Mystic, Conn., and, after coming round from the East, made her first voyage North in 1866, arriving at Portland in August, in command of Captain Godfrey. The following year she relieved the steamer Gussie Telfair on the Portland and Victoria route, making her initial trip in January with Captain Lyons in charge. She remained in this service several years, except at intervals when she ran to Alaska. After Ben Holladay met his Waterloo, and lost his steamship line, he contrived to retain possession of the California, and she continued in his service until 1876, when young Ben Holladay disposed of her to P. B. Cornwall, who had the Alaska mail contract, and operated her on that route, connecting at Portland with the steamship Great Republic after the opposition started. When the Northern Pacific Railroad was completed between Kalama and Tacoma, the travel by ocean w

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California (steamship)

Steamer California, first American steamship to round the Horn. Photograph of vessel taken in 1872, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 57.

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California (steamship)

The steamship California, which was on the Northern route in 1855, was the first American steamship to double Cape Horn, and was on the stocks in New York before gold was discovered in California. With the Oregon and Panama, she had been intended to carry passengers and mail between the Columbia River and the Isthmus in the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, then newly organized, San Francisco being at that time almost an unknown factor in Pacific Coast marine business. The three vessels were built at about the same time under the supervision of Capt. William Skiddle, a naval constructor in the employ of the United States Government, and, while the California was yet unfinished, her owners, who were not very wealthy, saw that they would be unable to complete her, and asked aid from Congress. The request was granted on condition that the steamers could be used by the Government for war purposes in case the emergency should arise, and with this understanding some alterations were made, nothing but l

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California Rose (tuna Boat)

The California Rose, a 72 foot diesel tuna boat of 180 - horsepower, was built at Tacoma for E. Alello of San Francisco. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 446.

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Calulu (freighter)

The first war prize vessel to put in an appearance in the Northwest the British tramp freighter Calulu arrived at Tacoma in August to load a full cargo of wheat for Australia. The Calulu was the former German steamer Osnabruch, and had been seized at Brisbane at the beginning of the war. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 252.

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Calulu (freighter)

The first war prize vessel to put in an appearance in the Northwest, the British tramp freighter Calulu, arrived at Tacoma in August to load a full cargo of wheat for Australia. The Calulu was the former German steamer Osnabruch, and had been seized at Brisbane at the beginning of the war. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p.252.

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Canadian Exporter (freighter)

Heavy fog was also the cause of the grounding and loss of the Canadian Merchant Marine freighter Canadian Exporter at the Wfllapa Harbor entrance on August 1. En route for Portland from Vancouver to complete a lumber cargo for the Orient, she struck the beach and efforts to back her off were unsuccessful, as were later attempts to free her by the bar tug Wallula and British Columbia salvage steamer Algeriane. Heavy surf caused her to work heavily in the sand and her back was soon broken. The crews of the salvage vessels were convinced of ghostly doings when the steam whistle of the deserted wreck suddenly began a series of eerie blasts. Investigation showed that the apparently supernatural occurrence was the result of the sagging of the severed forward section of the vessel, which alternately tightened and slackened the whistle cord. The underwriters sold the wreck to H. R. MacMillan and Percy Sills of Vancouver, who made arrangements with Hugh Delanty of the Grays Harbor Stevedoring Co. for skilled workers t

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Canadian National Number Five (tug)

The 68-ton diesel tug Canadian National No. 5, 67.2 x 17.2, was built at Kelowna, B. C. in 1932 for inland barge service.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1932, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 417.

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Canora (ferry)

A number of well-known vessels were laid up or scrapped during 1967. The Canadian National car ferry Canora of 1919, which had operated between the Fraser River and Vancouver Island for 48 years, was replaced by two car barges of Gulf of Georgia Towing and laid up on the Fraser River. The distinctive two-funneled steamer required a crew of 40 and had a capacity of 17 railway cars. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1967, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XLVIII.

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Canora (ferry)

The old twin-stack steam railway car ferry Canora, in layup at Vancouver, B.C., for about three years, was purchased by Goodwin Johnson Ltd. from H. B. Elworthy and M. L. Greene for conversion to a floating sawmill and training ship for Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, but the plan fell through, the conversion was not made and at this writing she is still lying idle in Burrard Inlet at the Goodwin Johnson wharf. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1973, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.145.

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Canuck (length 62 Ft.built 1922,)

(fish packer)beam 18 ft.Harbour Boat Builders Reg. No. 155234 Owner: William Charles Splan, 1155 Pacific St., Vancouver. ade only one rum running trip, 60 days long, Oct.-Dec. 1930. Fraser Miles. Slow boat on Rum Row. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing Company, 1992.

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Cape Tryon (freighter)

In August of 1969 the Tug Barbara Foss carried out an interesting job for the navy. She towed the USS Cape Tryon from the navy ammunition dump at Bangor, Washington to a disposal site well off the northern Washington Coast. The CAPE TRYON was a freighter built in 1944 for service in World War 11, but she also served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. By 1969 she had outlived her usefulness as an operating unit, so the Navy brought her to Bangor and loaded her with 6,000 tons of out-dated bombs, mines, and ammunition. Navy personnel cut many holes in the old hull and covered them with soft plugs that could be knocked out to scuttle the ship at the disposal site. The tug BARBARA FOSS left Bangor on August 11th and arrived at the predetermined location in the Pacific at 0700 on the 13th. Upon arrival demolition teams boarded the ship, knocked out the plugs, and opened the main sea valves. The CAPE TRYON slowly sank. At 0912 the ship performed her last duty for the navy as she settled below the surface with her carg

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Capella (fishing Boat)

Fisherman's family awarded $1.1 million, Tacoma News Tribune. May 27, 1984.

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Capillo (freighter)

The Hog Island freighter Capillo of 1920, operated by the American Line, was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft at Manila on December 7, the crew reaching Corregidor in the boats, where they were later captured with the garrison. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior, 1966..

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Capitol (freighter)

The Capitol, motor freighter of Puget Sound Freight Lines, destroyed by fire off Hartstene Island June 15 while on her regular Seattle-Olympia run, Capt. Homer Stroup and her crew barely having time to lower a boat. Arthur Watson, assistant engineer on watch, was badly burned when the fire broke out in the engine room. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 458.

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Capitol (freighter)

A new diesel freighter, the 65-foot Capitol of 100 horsepower, was built for Puget Sound Freight Lines at the Martinolich yard in Dockton to replace the Rubaiyat. Gordon Newell,Maritime events of 1924, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 352.

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Capt. James Fornance (steamer)

American steamer, 153 tons, strand-d in a gale four miles cast of the Fort Canby Life Saving Station, December 21, 1917. Forty-seven passengers were removed and landed safely at Ilwaco. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Captain James Fornance (steamer)

American vessel. 153 tons. Stranded off Fort Candy. December 21, 1917. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 158.

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Captain Joseph Formance (steamer)

Two propeller steamers were built by the Willamette Iron & Steel Works at Portland as passenger and freight tenders for harbor defense service of the Army Quartermaster Corps, both of about 160 tons, 98 feet in length. The Captain Joseph Formance was dispatched to Alaska and the Captain Gregory Barrett to San Francisco. The Barrett was later renamed Gordon being purchased by the Foss Launch & Tug Co., completely rebuilt and powered with a 500 -horsepower diesel as the Mathilda Foss. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 162.

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Car Of Commerce (steamboat)

Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 284.

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Carelmapu (full Rigged Ship)

Loss of life in marine disasters in Northwest waters was light in 1915 compared to most previous years. Probably the most dramatic shipwreck, and one of the most costly in human lives, was that of the Chilean full-rigged ship Carelmapu on Gowland Rocks off the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The C. P. R. steamer Princess Maquinna left Tofmo on Thanksgiving day in the face of extremely heavy wind and seas which had done extensive damage to offshore shipping. As the vessel proceeded down the Vancouver Island coast the weather worsened, Capt. Gillam stating that it was as bad as he had ever seen in his many years of navigating this dangerous route. He was preparing to put about and run for shelter when the lookout reported a sailing vessel in distress and almost in the breakers off the port bow. She was soon made out to be a full -rigged ship, her few sails in tatters, most of her yards bare, andplunging wildly to two anchors. It was the Carelmapu (formerly the Liverpool built Kinross), enbound for Puget Sound f

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Carib Prince (of 1894)

See PRINCE LINE FREIGHTERS

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Cariboo And Fly (steamer)

Cariboo and Fly, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 99.

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Cariboo And Fly (steamer)

The steamer Cariboo and Fly while en route from Skeena to Victoria, was wrecked in Granville Channel, but was afterward hauled off and repaired. E. W. Wright, Large Increase in British Columbia's Inland and Ocean Steam Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,1961 [Wright originally wrote in 1895. Events in this chapter occurred in 1888.]., p.362.

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Cariboo And Fly (steamer)

In September 1885 the Cariboo and Fly, after a few months' service as a barge, was again converted into a steamer. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1885, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 328.

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Carl Foss (tugboat)

The Carl Foss was originally named Sound which was built as a cannery tender in 1912 at Anacortes for the Coast Fish Company of Seattle. After several ownerships until being purchased by Foss on December 18, 1940. Foss operated the tug in Puget Sound until sold October 6, 1969. She was sold to a company employee who named her the Jenny W. Michael Skalley, The Carl Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 122-125.

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Carlisle (freight Boat)

The passenger and freight boat Carlisle II of 1917 was rebuilt as a ferry operating from Gooseberry Point to Lummi and Orcas Islands, retaining her original 75-horsepower F-M oil engine and operated by Frank Wright of Bellingham. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1923, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 336.

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Carol Foss (tugboat)

The Carol Foss was built in 1958 at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle and completed by the Foss-Seattle yard. She is 84 feet long with a beam of 25 feet. She started her career on July 5, 1958 in the Seattle Harbor and was repowered in June of 1977. Michael Skalley, The Carol Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating, Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 192.

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Caroline (pacific Mail Steamer)

Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 226. Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 282. Winther, Oscar. Old Oregon Country., p. 143. William D. Lyman. The Columbia River, p. 235. Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 112. First ocean going vessel to land at Portland. Charles H. Carey. General History of Oregon. 1971., II, p. 737, 742.

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Carr (guided Missile Frigate)

Todd's latest frigate: a shake down cruise, Marine Digest. April 27, 1985, p. 11+ The ship was named for gunner's mate third class Paul H. Carr who died in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.

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Carrier Princess (ferry)

The success of the converted tank landing craft Trailer Princess in Canadian Pacific rail-trailer ferry service had prompted the company to contract for a new and larger vessel of similar design, the 380-foot, 6,000-ton Carrier Princess, which was completed by Burrard Dry Dock* at Vancouver and placed in service between Vancouver and Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island near Victoria. Carrier Princess was the most highly-powered motor vessel ever built at this yard, being fitted with four 16-cylinder GM diesels of 2,875 horsepower arranged in pairs to drive twin screws and providing a service speed of 18 knots. The unusual lines of the ferry, with funnels at deck level to port and starboard aft and separate high deckhouses forward, was designed more for utility than beauty, but she has proved highly efficient in operation. Designed primarily to handle truck-trailers between Vancouver and the mainland, the highly versatile craft is also equipped to handle truck-trailers between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Thi

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Carysfort

Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 40, 48.

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Cascades Of The Columbia (steamer)

The Cascades of The Columbia, a splendid sternwheeler, was launched at Portland for the United States Engineers, and on completion was put in charge of Capt. John C. Gore and Engineer Charles E. Gore. She was used but little until 1888, when Major Handbury operated her in towing barges from Fisher's Landing to Fort Stevens, trans- porting rock for the jetty. She was admirably adapted for this service, being fast and powerful, and is still engaged in the work. During the past six years she has been in charge of Capt. W. H. Whitcomb, Pilot Andrew Johnson, and Chief Engineer Enoch Davis. E. W. Wright, Marine Business of 1882. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 294.

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Castel Forte

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Castillian Prince (of 1898)

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Catalina Express (passenger Craft)

Westport shipyard built fiberglass vessel for the Long Angeles Harbor to Catalina Island Transport, Marine Digest. May 11, 1985, p. 7. Hull design was by Edwin Monk, Jr. of Bainbridge Island. (il)

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Catherine Foss (2) (tugboat)

The Martinolich Shipyard of Tacoma built the Pacific Master in 1967 for the Pacific Towboat Company. The ship began service in April of 1967 in and around Anacortes, Bellingham and Ferndale. Responding to the needs of the Alaska oil boom the Pacific Master went north and worked around the oil rigs as a tender. When Mr. Skalley wrote his book about the Foss Company the Pacific Master had become the Catherine Foss and was working in Tacoma as the prime assist tug for Foss for Tacoma harbor. Michael Skalley, The Catherine Foss (2), Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 244.

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Catherine Foss (tugboat)

Built in 1899 in the Hanson Shipyard in Seattle as the steam cannery tug Kathadin. She was sixty-seven feet in length with a seventeen foot beam. She spent her career with Foss working on Puget Sound operating until November 5, 1964. The Catherine was sold in June of 1969 and in April of 1977 she was renamed Kathadin and taken to LaConnor. (Michael Skalley, The Catherine Foss, Foss ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 107).

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Cavalcade (fish Boat)

Casey Davidson, Launched just last summer the 92 foot fish boat Cavalcade was purchased by the United States Navy paying about $80,000 for the craft. The Cavalcade was built in Tacoma by the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation for the Suryan interests of Anacortes and was used last summer as a cannery tender and pickup boat in Alaska, Soundings. The Tacoma Times. November 14, 1940.

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Cefer Made (tug)

An unusual British Columbia tug which aroused considerable interest was the CeFer Made, the first to be built of ferro-cement. The 43 x 13-foot craft with 200-horsepower Caterpillar engine, was built by a new company, CeFer Designs Ltd., at the former Chappell Boatyard on Lulu Island in the Fraser River. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1967, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXXIX.

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Central (ferry)

The small steam ferry Central, of 31 tons, 60.2 x 18.5 x 4.8, was built by Capt. Willis Nearhoff at Clinton, Whidbey Island, for service between that point and Everett by his newly-formed Central Ferry Co. The Central was powered with one of the two small steam engines from the Sound freighter Rapid Transit the other going into his later Central 2. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1919- 1920, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.. p. 304.

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Central Ii (ferryboat)

The 65-foot ferry Central II was chartered from Mrs. Berte Olson by Puget Sound Freight Lines to run with the Pioneer on the Gooseberry Point - Orcas Island crossing, but she was destroyed by fire on August 20, 1931. The route was then sold to Puget Sound Navigation Co., and Pioneer to Mrs. Olson. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1931, H.W. McCurdy Maine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 412.

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Chaco (freighter)

Motor freighter Chaco, 65 x 32 feet with 80-horsepower Winton gas engine, at the Martinolich yard, Quartermaster Harbor, for the Island Transportation Company. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1916, H. S. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966

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Champion Of The Seas

The "Champion of the Seas" was a 3-masted ship-rigged wooden sailing vessel of 1947 gross tons, built by Donald Mackay at East Boston in 1854 for the Black Ball Line of Liverpool. She was taken over by T.Harrison of Liverpool in 1866. In 1874 she was sold to W.H.Ross & Co of Liverpool and on 3rd January 1876 she foundered off Cape Horn when homeward bound from Chile to Cork with a cargo of guano, the crew being rescued by the British barque "Windsor". The "Champion of the Seas" was evidently a well known vessel in her time and there should be information and probably photos of her in Australian Maritime museums.

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Chariot Of Fame (clipper Ship)

Willis Thornton. The Nine Lives of Citizen Train. 1948., p. 17.

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Charles E. Falk (schooner)

Charles E. Falk, three-masted schooner of 298 tons, was built at Fairhaven, Calif., probably by Bendixsen, in 1889, for N. H. Falk, Eureka. She was wrecked on Copalis Rocks, some 12 miles north of Grays Harbor, on March 31, 1909 the crew of eight getting ashore safely.John Lyman, Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. Mar. 15, 1941, p. 2.

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Charles E. Falk (schooner)

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Charles E. Moody (full Rigged Vessel)

The full-rigged ship Charles E. Moody, a Bath-built Downeaster of 1882 belonging to the Northwestern Fisheries Co., made the passage of 1,350 miles from Puget Sound to Orca, Alaska in 10 days, in 1911. having been taken as far as the Cape by the tug Tatoosh. Capt. Peter Bergman commanded the ship on the voyage north, the average time for which, by sailing vessels of the fisheries fleet, was in excess of 15 days. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 186.

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Charles F. Crocker (barkentine)

The Charles F. Crocker, 855 tons, carrying a million feet, was one of the first four-masted barkentines built on the Pacific Coast. She was launched at Alameda in 1890 by C. G. White, and her first owner was J. Simpson, San Francisco. She was owned before the first World War by Sanders & Kirchmann; they sold her in 1916 to William Johnson; and in 1918 Pacific Freighters of San Francisco bought the vessel. She was laid up at Seattle in 1924, after spending a couple of lean years in the Honolulu lumber trade. In 1926 she went to the Hollywood Navy, and was allowed to founder in Isthmus Harbor, Catalina Island, where her bones are one of the wrecks which now foul that otherwise beautiful anchorage. John Lyman, Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. Mar. 15, 1941, p. 2.

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Charles F. Crocker (barkentine)

The Charles F. Crocker, 855 tons, carrying a million feet, was one of the first four-masted barkentines built on the Pacific Coast. She was launched at Alameda in 1890 by C. G. White, and her first owner was J. Simpson, San Francisco. She was owned before the first World War by Sanders & Kirchmann; they sold her in 1916 to William Johnson; and in 1918 Pacific Freighters of San Francisco bought the vessel. She was laid up at Seattle in 1924, after spending a couple of lean years in the Honolulu lumber trade. In 1926 she went to the Hollywood Navy, and was allowed to founder in Isthmus Harbor, Catalina Island, where her bones are one of the wrecks which now foul that otherwise beautiful anchorage. John Lyman, Pacific Coast- Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. Mar. 15, 1941, p. 2.

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Charles F. Crocker (barkentine)

The Charles F. Crocker, a four-masted barkentine, was sold by Pacific Freighters Co. to Jack West of San Francisco for filming motion pictures off the southern California coast the vessel departing for Los Angeles in tow of the steam schooner Viking. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 374.

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Charles L. Wheeler Jr (freighter)

Maritime history was made by the McCormick Steamship Co. under Pope & Talbot operation early in July when its 2,670-ton ocean freighter Charles L. Wheeler, Jr. voyaged up the Columbia River and through the locks of Bonneville Dam to the historic upper river steamboat port of The Dalles.' Although the voyage was to some extent a publicity stunt in connection with the mid - Columbia -Bonneville dedication celebration, the Wheeler unloaded cargo at The Dalles from Los Angeles and San Francisco, consisting of sugar, building materials, beer, hardware, automobiles and general freight, and loaded lumber, wheat, flour and other Inland Empire products for the return voyage. Capt. Arthur Riggs, veteran upper Columbia pilot, took the vessel upstream from Portland to the inland terminus 200 miles from the Pacific. Hopes of The Dalles residents that this event marked their city's arrival as an ocean port were short -lived, for other deep water vessels did not follow in the her wake, but her historic voyage dramatized t

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Charles L. Wheeler, Jr (freighter)

The Charles L. Wheeler, Jr., with dimensions of 289 x 44 x 19, powered by a 1,400-horsepower triple-expansion engine, was built by the Albina Engine & Machine Works at Portland in 1918 as the Carl for Danish owners, but was requisitioned by the Shipping Board and renamed Point Judith. In 1920 she was sold to the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., in 1925 to Swayne & Hoyt for service in its Gulf -Pacific Line, and in 1929 to the McCormick Steamship Co., being renamed for the son of the vice president and general manager of the company. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1938 H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 462.

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Charles L. Wheeler. Jr (freighter)

The former McCormick freighter Charles L. Wheeler, Jr., which earned a place in Northwest maritime history by her 1938 voyage up the Columbia River to The Dalles, was taken from layup in the Olympia Reserve fleet and scrapped at the Seattle yard of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1948, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 557.

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Charles N. Curtis (sea Explorer Crarft)

Sea explorer craft comes up shining, The Tacoma News Tribune. December 18, 1991.

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Charlie Wells (ferry)

Peninsula Gateway. Mary 20, 1992. Wishing Wells could be here.

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Charlotte Frances (brig)

The Charlotte Frances is a brig of 126 tons old measurement and was built at San Francisco in 1863 by J. M. Farnum. Nothing more is known of this vessel. John Lyman, Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. Mar. 15, 1941, p. 2.

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Chavez (freighter)

The ship that missed, an account of the Chaez collision with the West Seattle Bridge, The Weekly. (March 16, 1983), p. 29. This vessel hit the West Seattle Bridge on June 11, 1978 while under the control of pilot R. Neslund.

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Cherub (sloop Of War)

Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 14, 16-17, 19, 27. Peter Corney. Voyages in the Northern Pacific...1813-1818., p. 17, 41. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, I, p. 84. Accompanied the Isaac Todd. Charles H. Carey. General History of Oregon. 1971., I, p. 212, Part of a convoy.

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Chetzmoka (ferry)

Wooden diesel-electric ferries Chetzemoka (1927), and Klahanie (1928), two of the dwindling fleet of former San Francisco Bay ferries brought north in the 1930's by Puget Sound Navigation Co., sold as surplus by Washington State Ferries to California owners, leaving the Vashon of 1930 as the only wooden-hulled vessel in the state ferry fleet. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.191.

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Chickaree (freight Boat)

The 77-foot gasoline passenger and freight boat Chickaree was sold by Capt F. G. Reeve to Capt. Hopkins of Olympia, who used her on the Oyster Bay and Kamilche run, replacing the steamer Mizpah.

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Chickawana (freight Boat)

The gasoline passenger and freight boat Chickawana was acquired by the Island Transportation Co. from Capt. Charles E. Maxwell. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1924, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle : Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 355.

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Chicken Of The Sea (tuna Boat)

An all steel tuna boat, Tacoma News Tribune. November 7, 1945. Powerful tuna clipper built here, Tacoma Times. November 7, 1945.

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Chicken Of The Sea (tuna Clipper)

Among the larger commercial fishing vessels of interest in 1945 were the offshore tuna clipper Chicken of the Sea and the Canadian trawler Scot Hill. The latter vessel, 60 feet in length, was designed to serve either as a beam trawler or halibut boat and was considered one of the best designed and most strongly constructed vessels to be added to the Northwest fishing fleet in some years. She was built at the Nelson Bros. Fisheries yard, New Westminster, to the order of Peter Anderson. The Chicken of the Sea, a 142-foot welded steel vessel, was built at a cost of about a half million dollars by the Birchfield shipyards at Tacoma for California owners. She was rifted with refrigerated cargo space for handling 450 tons of fish. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1945, H.W.McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 527.

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Chicken Of The Sea (tuna Seiner)

All steel tuna boat, The Tacoma News Tribune. November 7, 1945. Powerful tuna clipper built here, The Tacoma Times. November 7, 1945.

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Chief (ferry)

An interesting marine venture was made by Capt. Fred J. Tuttle, who had operated passenger, freight and towing vessels on Lake Chelan since 1913 with his brothers. Thomas and Gaines Tuttle built the boats, which were operated by Fred and Chester Tutfle, their fleet including the ferry Chief tug Vagabond and passenger boats Panama and Comet. In 1937 Capt. Tuttle rebuilt the 50-foot passenger launch Princess, built by Tuttle Brothers in 1907 for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition service in Seattle. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 453.

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Chief (ferry)

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Chief (launch)

The passenger launch Chief was sold by Columbia River Packers' Assn. to Capt. John Reid for Northern Pacific Railway ferry service between Kalama and Goble with the launch Queen. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p227.

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Chief Alokut (river Boat)

Experience in operating the 32 - foot twin - screw river boat Chief Joseph on the upper Snake River resulted in the construction of a new craft of even moreunique design by Blaine Stubblefield. The maiden voyage of his second craft through Hells Canyon was made with nine passengers, all emerging safely from the white water run aboard the 30 -foot converted Army bridge pontoon Chief Alokut. This novel passenger boat was built of rubber and powered by a 25-horsepower outboard mounted on a timber outrigger. Stubblefield was pilot for the trip, with Dan Cole of Homestead, Oregon, as steersman. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 586.

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Chief Joseph

A 30-foot flat-bottomed river boat, the Chief Joseph, was constructed by the Portland Boat Works and moved to Weiser, Idaho by flatbed truck. There it was launched for the novel upper Snake River tourist excursion service instituted by Blaine Stubblefield. Downriver trips only were made, the Chief Joseph voyaging from Weiser to Lewiston by water and returning overland by truck. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 573.

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Chief Joseph (motor Vessel)

Application was made during the summer of 1950 by Blaine Stubblefield for an inland waterway certticate on the Snake River from Weiser, Idaho downstream about 125 miles to Granite Creek Rapids at the foot of Hell's Canyon. Stubblefield was owner of the motor vessel Chief Joseph, the first scheduled vessel to go through the Hell's Canyon section of the Snake. The Inland Navigation Co., operating tugs and barges on the upper Columbia, had recently instituted similar service above -The Dalles, providing freight, passenger and mail service from Lewiston, Idaho up the Snake River to Johnson's Bar, utilizing small gasoline-powered vessels. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 570.

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Chief Justic Marshall (steamboat)

Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 532.

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Chief Seattle (fireboat)

Chief Seattle to replace the Duwamish, Marine Digest. October 20, 1984, p. 11. Fireboat Chief Seattle to enter service January 1, 1985, Marine Digest. December 22, 1984, p. 30. Fast fire boat serves Seattle waterfront, Marine Engineering/Log. (February, 1985), p. 79.

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Chief Skugaid (fish Packer)

Reg. No. 133736 Engine: One 100-HP diesel. Union Gas Engine Co., Oakland, California. Owner: General Navigation Co., 1048 Hamilton St., Vancouver, 1929. Served longest term of any rum runner, March 1923 to December 1933 Fraser Miles. Slow boat on Rum Row. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing Company, 1992.

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Chief Washakie (freighter)

The Liberty freighter Chief Washakie was purchased by the Northland Transportation Co., but was not operated under that houseflag, also passing to Alaska Steam with the merger, later in the year, of the two companies. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1948, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 554.

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Chieftain (steamer)

The Chieftain, Captain Harnult, was launched May 8th for Cunningham & Son, the Skeena River cannerymen. She was a handsome little propeller eighty-five feet long, sixteen feet beam, and eight feet six inches hold. E. W. Wright, Finest Steamers in the Northwest Appear on Puget Sound Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and events referred to in this chapter generally took place in 1889., p.377.

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Chieftain Iii (tug)

The February gales which brought disaster to the RivTow Rogue caught the tug Chieftain III of wing Service Ltd. and her loaded barge in Malaspina Strait en route from Squamish for the MacMillan-Bloedel pulp mill at Powell River. The barge's cargo consisted of 250 tons of liquid caustic soda in below-deck tanks and four railway tank cars filled with deadly chlorine gas. When the tug's master came on watch at about 5:45 on the morning of February 19, he found the tug moving at a lower speed than normal and, upon investigation, found that the barge had capsized. Canadian and U.S. government vessels responded to the emergency call from the tug. The location of the tug and overturned barge off the north end of Texada Island was easily found, for the caustic soda was continuously leaking from the barge's overflow valve, turning the water a bright green for several miles. The soda becomes harmless when mixed with enough water, but the chlorine gas in the tank cars becomes potentially lethal to both human and marine

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Chilkat (ferry Boat)

Lone E. Janson. The Copper Spike. 1975., p. 163.

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Chimacum (freighter)

Chimacum (ex Toandoo), diesel freighter sold by Puget Sound Freight Lines to the Horluck Transportation Co. of Port Orchard and con- verted for local passenger ferry service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 517.

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Chinook (ferry)

A new concept in ferry design, the steel diesel-powered Chinook, was built at the Todd Shipyards, Seattle, to replace the veteran ferry steamer Iroquois on the Seattle - Port Angeles - Victoria route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. This streamlined twin -screw vessel, with dimensions of 318 x 65 x 13, was powered by diesel engines developing 5,500 horsepower, providing a service speed of 18 knots. She was capable of carrying 100 automobiles, in comparison to the 40-car capacity of the Iroquois, and had accommodations for 1,000 passengers, compared to 400 for the old steamer. Stateroom accommodations were provided for more than 200, while the dining salon was designed to serve 108 persons at a time. She was also fitted with three large lounges, a coffee shop, and an unusual amount of promenade deck area. Constructed at a cost of $2,000,000 the Chinook was christened by Mrs. Peabody, wife of Capt. Alex M. Peabody, president of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. Overall design of the vessel was by Gibbs & Cox, New

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Chinook (ferryboat)

On April 22, 1947 the 318 foot Chinook described by Pacific Marine Review as the most lavisly equpped vessel for automobile passenger service yet built in America would be launched from the ways of Todd's wartime Harbor Island yard that produced forty-five destroyers during World War II. The two and a half million dollar craft would have a diesel electric propulsion system. Grahame F. Shrader, The Blackball Line. p. 12-13. Familiar Pacific Northwest Vessel, Marine Digest. April 30, 1983, p. 11-14. This boat was on the Port Angeles to Victoria run from 1947 to 1961. Was on coastal British Columbia runs from 1962 to 1982. Presently for sale. Letters to the editor, Marine Digest. July 2 and July 30, 1983.

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Chippewa (ferry)

The 67-year-old Puget Sound ferry Chippewa, purchased earlier from the Washington State Toll Bridge Authority by Foss Launch & Tug Co., was purchased by Isthmian Lines and turned over to the government on its purchase of the C-4 Troopship General C. C. Ballou. The Chippewa was towed from her former berth on Lake Union for storage in the Olympia Reserve Fleet. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1967, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XLV.

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Chippewa (ferry)

The 68-year-old ferry Chippewa, declared surplus by the Washington State Ferries in 1965, again changed hands when Donald Clair of Marine Diesel Supply & Equipment Co., Oakland, offered the Maritime Administration $9,768 for the Great Lakes-built vessel. She was subsequently towed to the Bay Area for the purpose of being converted to a museum, shopping and restaurant ship. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.43-44.

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Chippewa (ferry)

Fire originating in the paint locker gutted the veteran Puget Sound ferry Chippewa at her moorings in Oakland in June. Although the fireboat City of Oakland and 17 landbased fire department rigs battled the midnight blaze, the superstructure was destroyed to the car deck. The hull was subsequently converted to use as a fishing barge. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.55.

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Chiralite (freighter)

An interesting 85-foot motor vessel, the Chiralite, a twinscrew passenger and freight carrier with two 70-horsepower Sterling gas engines, was built by the Taylor Engineering Co. at Vancouver, B. C. for the International Petroleum Co. of Toronto. She was taken to South America by Capt. H. 0. Jones for ferry service between Payta and Telara, Peru. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1917, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 291.

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Chirikof (steamer)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 65, 162. At Drakes Bay. Buell and Skladal. Sea Otters and the China Trade., 178.

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Chris Foss (1) (tugboat)

The Chris Foss (1) was built as the Crest in 1925 at the Sieverson Shipyard in Seattle for the Wagner Towboat Company. The vessel was 51 feet in length and had a beam of 14 feet. Her primary service was on Puget Sound and she became part of the Foss fleet in 1937 when Wagner Towing was dissolved. After a checkered career with some years in lay-up without an engine Foss sold the tug in October of 1956. She once again became the Crest and did a variety of work on Puget Sound with plans for cruises up the Columbia and Snake Rivers as well as the Canadian islands. Michael Skalley, The Nancy Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 118.

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Chris Foss (2) (tugboat)

The CHRIS FOSS, a steel harbor-class tug number YTL-159, was built for the navy in City Island, New York, but the tug wandered a long way from home, ending up in Puget Sound. She worked for the navy shifting barges and test equipment around the Sound for twenty years before being declared surplus in 1962 and laid up at Indian Island near Port Townsend. She was purchased by Foss in mid 1962 and a major rebuilding operation began being completed by the end of that year. The tug operated on Puget Sound and its final active day for Foss was June 9, 1980 after which she was put up in lay-up. Michael Skalley, The Chris Foss, (2) , Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 226.

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Christine Foss (tugboat)

The Christine Foss began service as a Miki-tyupe Army tug, LT-187 built in 1943 at the Sagstad Shipyard in Seattle. After war service in the Aleutians the vessel was sold to the Foss company in April of 1946. The Christine has been involved in two historic tows. In 1957 she towed a rail car barge loaded with lumber from central British Columbia to the Midwest and Est the first of its kind. In January 1958 the Christine carried two barges loaded with dynamite to the Hawaiian Islands Michael Skalley, The Christine Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981. p. 149.

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Chum (fishboat)

Chum, 20 -ton gasoline fishing vessel, built at Cordova in 1917 and owned by the Superior Packing Co. of Seattle, burned at Tenakee Inlet, Alaska, August 18, 1940. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 484.

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City Of Aberdeen

Built at Aberdeen in 1891. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205.

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City Of Aberdeen

Beach comber's notebook, The Tacoma News Tribune. November 28, 1939.

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City Of Aberdeen (steamer)

The stern wheeler City of Aberdeen, built at Aberdeen in 1891, was rebuilt by Capt. W. H. Ellis as a day passenger steamer for the Seattle-Bremerton run and renamed Vashon. Gordon Newell, Martime Events of 1904, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 106.

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City Of Aberdeen (steamer)

The sternwheeler City of Aberdeen, one hundred and twenty-seven feet long, nineteen feet five inches beam, and six feet hold, was constructed for the Aberdeen Transportation Company. Capt. T. S. Tew was first in command. She was sent to the Sound, soon after completion, in charge of Capt. James Hennesy, and is now running between Seattle and Olympia in connection with the Multnomah. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and the years covered in this chapter are 1891 and 1892., p.389.

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City Of Adelaide

Devitt & Co of London's "City of Adelaide" which was a clipper ship on the UK - Australia run. She was built by W.Pile, Hay & Co.at Sunderland, launched on 7.5.1864. and employed carrying general cargo and emigrants to Australia and wool home. However this was not a steamship but a ship rigged sailing vessel. In 1888 she was sold to Dixons of London, converted to barque rig and used in the N.American timber trade and in 1894, cut down to a hulk and employed by Southampton Corporation as a plague ship during an outbreak of cholera. Bought by the Admiralty in 1922 she was converted and renamed "Carrick" and used as a naval drill ship and headquarters of the Clyde Division, RNVR at Greenock. Used as a naval accommodation ship during the second world war and given to the RNVR after the war for conversion to a RNVR club headquarters at Glasgow. As far as I know, she is still there.

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City Of Alberni (schooner)

Five masted City of Alberni built at Hoquiam, Washington. Made 80 day wartime voyage with 1,590,000 feet of lumber from the mills of the MacMillan and Bloedel, Ltd, Ralph W. Andrews. This was sawmilling., p. 110.

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City Of Alberni (schooner)

The five-masted schooner City of Alberni ex-Vigilant), under the management of the Canadian Transport Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the H. R. MacMillan Lumber Co. of Vancouver, came out of layup for wartime service and was given an extensive refit including new rigging and sails and a couple of new top masts. Under the command of Capt. John Vosper, former master of the rum-running five masted schooner Malahat, she loaded lumber for Australia. After a 71-day voyage to Sydney she loaded a partial cargo of hardwood at Fiji and filled out with sugar at Suva. Late in the year she arrived off Cape Flattery, only to be struck by a year-end gale which opened up her seams and damaged her mizzen mast. Leaking and lame, she struggled into Port Angeles and was towed to Vancouver completing her round voyage on New Years Day of 1941. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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City Of Alberni (schooner)

The Canadian five-masted schooner City of Alberni (ex Vigilant), owned by the Canadian Transport Co., a subsidiary of the H. R. McMillan Export Co., had returned to service in the spring of 1940 after nearly a year's layup at Bellingham, carrying lumber from Vancouver to Sydney and returning from Fiji with sugar. On New Years Day, 1940, she returned to Vancouver, leaking and with a damaged mizzen mast, and discharged cargo. In the spring she sailed with lumber from Port Alberni to Sydney, thence in ballast to Apia, Samoa for copra, and thence back to British Columbia. On December 7, 1941 she was west of Hawaii, her master, Capt. John Vosper, estimating later that her course must have coincided within a few miles of that of the Japanese fleet steaming to attack Pearl Harbor. The City of Alberni was leaking badly by the end of this second Australian voyage and had difficulty getting insurance. She finally made her final voyage from the Northwest in November, 1942 with lumber for South Africa. Unable to round th

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City Of Anacortes

May 8, 1933 Gas boat, Lost in the Portland Canal. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana, Oregon Shipwrecks.1984, p.203-208

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City Of Anacortes (ferry Boat)

Part of the fleet of the Kasch Transporation Company owned by William H. Kasch doing service between Anacortes, Friday Harbor and Bellingham. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 133.

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City Of Anacortes (freight Boat)

The City of Anacortes, a 66 x 12 -foot passenger and freight boat with 65 -horsepower Troyer -Fox engine was built by William Reed at Decatur for the Inland Passenger & Express Co. for operation between Friday Harbor, Waldron, Decatur and Anacortes. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 161.

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City Of Angeles (ferry)

The newly converted ferry City of Angeles, chartered from the Puget Sound Navigation Co., was placed in service in May between Anacortes and Sidney, B. C., with stops at Orcas and Roche Harbor in the San Juan Islands, by the Victoria - Anacortes Ferry Co., headed by Capt. Harry W. Crosby. Capt. Louis Van Bogaert had charge of her for about two months and then was succeeded by Capt. Sam Barlow, who transferred from the steamer Tourist. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1923, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 336.

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City Of Angeles (ferryboat)

Built in California in 1906. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 206. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 80, 95-96, 100, 132, 197, 249.

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City Of Antwerp

The steamship CITY OF ANTWERP was built for the Inman Line by Tod & McGregor, of Glasgow, in 1866. 2,391 tons; 101,19 x 12,01 meters (332 x 30.4 feet; length x beam); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 12 knots. 8 November 1866, launched. 20 February 1867, maiden voyage, Liverpool=Queenstown-New York. 13 January 1876, last voyage, Liverpool-Queenstown-New York. 1879, became THANEMORE (Johnston); compound engines by Barrow Shipbuilding Co; tonnage incrased to 3,032. 26 November 1890, went missing with the loss of 43 lives [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1, p. 242. Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., [1993]), p. 57, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970

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City Of Astoria (tug)

The tug City of Astoria, which had been rebuilt at Portland in 1889 from the old City of Sellwood of 1883 and had been brought up from South Bend by Capt. Caine of the Pacific Clipper Line, struck an uncharted rock near Dyea on August 3 and sank incurring a loss of $7,000. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1898, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 41.

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City Of Astoria (tugboat)

Standing by 1898 wreck of the Mercury with the Resolute. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 49.

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City Of Athens

See AROSA KULM.

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City Of Baltimore

The "City of Baltimore" was built by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow in 1855 for the British owned Inman Line. She was a 2,368 gross ton ship, length 330.7ft x beam 39ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. Launched on 20th January 1855, she sailed from Liverpool for Marseilles on 20th March, where she was charterd by the French government for use as a troop transport for the Crimean War. She commenced her first commercial voyage for the Inman Line from Liverpool to Philadelphia on 23rd April 1856 and her first Liverpool - New York voyage started on 14th Jan.1857. In 1866 she was reconditioned with new engines and boilers and resumed Liverpool - Queenstown (Cobh) - New York voyages on 21st Nov.1866. Her last sailing on this service commenced 26th Feb.1874 and she was then sold to the Hall Line, retaining the same name. In 1883 she was sold to Spanish owners and renamed "Fivaller" and in 1886 became the Spanish owned "Benicarlo". She was scrapped the same year. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.239; vol.5 ,p.1920] -

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City Of Baroda

The "City of Baroda" was a 7,129 gross ton ship, built by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow in 1918 for Ellerman's American & Indian Line. Her details were - length 433.4ft x beam 57.2ft, one funnel, two masts, single screw and a speed of 13 knots. There was accommodation for 115-1st class passengers. Launched on 26/6/1918, she was employed on various routes, but on 3/2/1927 commenced her first passenger voyage from New York to Port Said, Karachi, Bombay, Columbo, Madras, Rangoon, and Calcutta. In November 1929 she commenced the last of two voyages from New York to Port Said and Far East ports and on 2/4/1943 was torpedoed and sunk off Luderitz Bay by the German submarine U.509 with the loss of 14 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.4,p.1474]

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City Of Belleville (motorship)

The 151 x 27 -foot steel motorship City of Belleville, built in 1946 by the Canadian Car & Foundry Co. at Port Arthur and operated by the Canada Transport Co. of Belleville, Ontario, was purchased in 1951 by Frank Waterhouse & Co. of Canada Ltd. (Union Steamships) and brought around to Vancouver in October. The 400-horsepower diesel freighter was placed in B. C. coast service as Capilano (3) under Capt. W. B. Mc Cartney and Chief Engineer John Goodall.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 575.

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City Of Bellingham (ferry Boat)

M.S. Kline and G. A. Bayless, Ferryboards, a legend on Puget Sound., P. 249.

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City Of Bellingham (steam Ferry)

The steam ferry City of Bellingham of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. was completely rebuilt at Houghton as the Quilcene, her length being increased from 141 to 146 feet and her beam from 26 to 43 feet She was provided with entirely new public rooms, dining facilities and a number of staterooms, but her original four-cylinder triple-expansion engine installed at the time of her construction in 1916 as the Kitsap II was retained. The Quilcene was placed on the Seattle Port Townsend run in charge of Capt. Allen P. Burneson and upon the granting of a certificate by the state department of public works was diverted to the new Edmonds - Port Townsend route for which she was designed. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929- 30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 402.

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City Of Berlin

The "City of Berlin" was an iron steamer built in 1875 by Caird & Co. of Greenock for the British Inman Line. Her dimensions were 5491 gross tons, length 488.6ft x beam 44.2ft. She had a clipper stem, one funnel and three masts, single screw and a speed of 15 knots. There was accommodation for 170 1st, 100 2nd and 1500 3rd class passengers. She sailed between Liverpool, Queenstown (Cobh) and New York and in 1875 made a recird passage between Queenstown and NY. In 1879 she was the first trans Atlantic liner to be fitted with interior electric lighting. In 1893 she went to the American Line but stayed under the British flag and was renamed "Berlin". She then sailed between NY and Southampton. In 1895 she went to the Red Star Line for their Antwerp - NY service and in 1898 resumed the Southampton - Queenstown - NY run. Later the same year she became the "Meade" for the US government and in 1906 was damaged by fire in San Francisco. She was scrapped in 1921.

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City Of Blain

Freight and passenger vessel. The little 54-foot freight and passenger boat City of Blaine, built at Blaine in 1912 for the Point Roberts mail run, was acquired from Capt. L. Devlin by Capt. Earl Sugden, Seattle fireboat pilot and a principal in Northwest Steamship Co., owners of the historic passenger steamer Virginia V. The City of Blaine, in a sinking condition on the Duwamish River, was moved to Lake Union for repairs and the installation of new power. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.80.

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City Of Blaine (passenger Vessel)

The City of Blaine, 39 tons, 60 feet, was built at Blaine in 1912 for local passenger service; Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 206.

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City Of Bothell (tugboat)

Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p.205.

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City Of Bothwell (steamer)

Small steamers built on the Sound were the City of Bothwell, length sixty-four feet nine inches, beam fourteen feet five inches, depth of hold three feet four inches. E. W. Wright. Growth of Deep-water Commerce, Great Loss of Life by Marine Disasters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961. [Wright completed his book in 1895 and the events described occurred in 1893 and 1894.]., p.414.

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City Of Bremerton (ferry)

More of the old time steamboat fleet of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. succumbed to the ship breaker in 1939, including a number of those whose lease on life had been extended by conversion to automobile ferries. The City of Bremerton (ex - Whatcom and Majestic) was broken up. Gordon Newell, Maritime Activities of 1939, McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 476.

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City Of Bremerton (ferryboat)

Built in Everett in 1901. Known also as the Majestic and the Whatcom. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205. M.S. Kline and G. A. Bayless, Ferryboats, a legend on Puget Sound. p. 89, 91-92, 94, 197, 241, 249.

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City Of Bremerton (ferryboat)

Converted to carry sixty cars and 1500 passengers on the Seattle to Bremerton run, Marine Digest (September 26, 1981), p. 23. Conversion completed November 19, 1921. The vessel was previously known as the Whatcom.

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City Of Bristol

See ETNA.

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City Of Brooklyn

See BROOKLYN.

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City Of Brussels

The SS CITY OF BRUSSELS was built by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow, in 1869, for the Inman Line (first steamer built with steam steering gear). 3,081tons; 118,86 meters (390 feet) long x 12,28 meters (40.3 feet) beam clipper bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 14 knots; accommodation for 200 cabin and 600 3rd-class passengers. 10 August 1869, launched. 14 October 1869, maiden voyage, Liverpool-Queenstown-New York. December 1869, record passage, New York-Queenstown (first undisputed screw "Blue Riband" holder. 9 November 1871, last voyage, Liverpool-Queenstown- New York (20 roundtrip voyages). 1872, iron promenade deck added; 3,747 tons; steerage increased to 1,000. 9 May 1872, resumed Liverpool-Queenstown-New York. 26 August 1875, last voyage, Liverpool-Queenstown-New York. 1876, compound engines by G. Forrester & Co., Liverpool. 28 February 1877, resumed Liverpool- Queenstown-New York. 12 December 1882, last voyage, Liverpool-Queenstown-New York. 7 January 1883, sank in the River Mersey following a collision with the SS KIRBY HALL (10 lives lost) [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 242. Pictured in Bonsor,op. cit., p. 226. Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 59, contains a photograph, purportedly of the CITY OF BRUSSELS, with, however, 2 funnels, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970

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City Of Chester

The "City of Chester" was a 4,566 gross ton ship, built by Caird & Co, Greenock in 1873 for the Inman Line of Liverpool. Her details were - length 444.6ft x beam 44.2ft, clipper stem, two funnels, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw, two cylinder compound engine, and a speed of 14 knots. There was accommodation for 125-1st, 80-2nd and 1,310-3rd class passengers. Launched on 29/3/1873, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Queenstown (Cobh) and New York on 10/7/1873. She commenced her last voyage on this service on 15/2/1893 and then went to the American Line, but stayed under the British flag, and was renamed "Chester". On 4/3/1893 she started her first New York - Southampton crossing and on 4/11/1894 commenced her last Southampton - New York voyage. She resumed the Southampton - Queenstown - New York service on 14/5/1898 and started her third and final voyage on this route on 9/7/1898. She then became the US Army Transport "Sedgwick". In 1903 she was sold to Italian owners who renamed her "Arizona" and in 1906 she became the Italian "Napoletano". She was scrapped in 1907. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.243] -

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City Of Chester (steamer)

The steamship City of Chester, Thomas Wallace, captain, Frank Cookson, chief engineer, was struck by the steamship Oceanic while leaving San Francisco harbor, August 22d, and went to the bottom in a few minutes, thirteen persons losing their lives. E. W. Wright, Large Increase in British Columbia's Inland and Ocean Steam Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,1961 [Wright originally wrote in 1895. Events in this chapter occurred in 1888.]., p.360.

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City Of Chester (steamer)

The Oregon Steam company also added the City of Chester to their Pacific Coast fleet. Captain Bolles of the Ajax was sent East to bring her to the Coast, and she was the first ocean steamer to pass over Hell Gate after that dangerous obstruction was removed from New York harbor. The Chester did not arrive on the northern route until March, 1877. Bolles was succeeded in 1878 by Captain Mackie, with E. Polemann as mate, the latter having command in 1880, with Frank Cookson, engineer. Captains Carroll and Wallace afterward ran the steamers on the northern route. In 1888 the City of Chester was sunk at the Golden Gate by the Oceanic, at which time John Macdonald, who was one of the crew, distinguished himself by rescuing a lady passenger. The Chester and the Elder inaugurated the five-day service between Portland and San Francisco. E. W. Wright, Loss of the 'Pacific,' New Transportation Companies on the Willamette and Columbia, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Pres

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City Of Chicago

The "City of Chicago" was built by Charles Connell & Co, Glasgow in 1883. She was a 5,202 gross ton ship, length 430.6ft x beam 45ft, straight stem, two funnels, four masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 14 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 140-1st, 100-2nd and 850-3rd class. Laid down as the "Vancouver" for the Dominion Line, she was purchased on the stocks by Inman Line and launched as "City of Chicago". Her maiden voyage started on 18th Sep.1883 when she left Liverpool for Queenstown (Cobh) and New York. She continued on this service until commencing her last voyage on this route on 8th Jun.1892. While homeward bound, she ran ashore in dense fog on 1st July, near the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland and was wrecked with no loss of life. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.244] -

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City Of Clinton (ferry)

The 58 -foot ferry steamery City of Clinton was built at Clinton, Washington for service to Everett. The auto mobile ferries operated by King County in Puget Sound service between Seattle and Vashon Island were turned over at this time to the Kitsap County Transportation Co. for operation and management. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1921-22, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 325.

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City Of Clinton (ferryboat)

Built in Clinton in 1922, the 57 ton, 1 00 h.p., auto ferry steamer City of Clinton provided service to Everett. The small ferry managed by the Kitsap County Transportation Company ran for 7 years. On March 23, 1929 while enroute the ferry caught fire and sank off Mukilteo southeast of Everett (Hansonl 988, Barnard 1984, Straub 1979, Sobay 1975, Gibbs 1955, Newell 1966:325, 403, Firemen's Insurance Company 1928).

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City Of Clinton (ferryboat)

M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 174.

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City Of Clinton (steam Ferry)

The small steam ferry City of Clinton was wrecked at Mukilteo March 23. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 403.

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City Of Clinton (steamer)

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City Of Coquitlam (schooner)

The first vessel built for deep-sea trade on the Fraser River, the 215 x 40 foot four-masted auxiliary schooner City of Coquitlam, powered by heavy duty oil engines, was completed at Coquitlam for British Columbia-West Indies service via the Panama Canal, but was subsequently chartered to J. J. Moore & Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1914, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.243.

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City Of Cork

The "City of Cork" was built in 1862 by Wm Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton for the Inman Line of Liverpool. Her details were - 1,547 gross tons, Length 252.6ft x beam 32.8ft, clipper stem, one funnel, two masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. She was rigged for sail as well as steam. There was accommodation for 20-cabin class passengers as well as 3rd class. She was launched on 22/11/1862 without a name and was bought by Inman in 1863 and named "City of Cork". She started her maiden voyage Liverpool - Queenstown (Cobh) - New York on 21/3/1863. Commenced her last voyage Liverpool - Queenstown - Halifax - New York voyage on 14/1/1871 and was then sold to the Florio Line of Italy who renamed her "Mediterraneo". In 1881 she went to Navigazione Generale Italiana who ran her until 1899 when she was scrapped. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.240]

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City Of Denver (ferryboat)

Built by the LaConner Trading and Transporation Company. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 39-40, 102

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City Of Dublin

See QUEBEC.

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City Of Dublin

October 8, 1878 Ship, British, 814 tons, en route Port Chalmers-New Zealand-Columbia River. Captain David Steven. In 1880 the Weekly Astorian reported parts of the City of Dublin had washed through the woods and were now lying behind the Fort Stevens garrison quarters. Rigging and other fixtures of the wreck were sold Dec. 1, 1878. The sale was well attended, $500 more was brought in than was expected -Daily Astorian, Dec. 1878. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Cape Falcon to Cape Disappointment, Oregon Shipwrecks. 1984, p. 127-34.

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City Of Dublin

British ship, 814 tons, wrecked on Clatsop Spit, after the currents carried her on the shoal when the wind failed on the bar, October 18, 1878. The vessel was enroute to Portland from Port Chalmers, and was forty-nine days at sea. She was in command of Captain David Steven who, being unfamiliar with the landmarks, stood in too close to the bar, and was helpless to bring his ship about after the breeze failed. The anchor cables parted and the vessel was dashed hard on the sands. The crew made shore safely. Two weeks later salvage attempts were commenced but proved unsuccessful. The City of Dublin was valued at $40,000. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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City Of Dublin

Wrecked on Clatsop Spit in 1878. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. p. 159.

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City Of Dublin

The British ship City of Dublin, eight hundred and fourteen tons, was wrecked on Clatsop Spit, near the mouth of the Columbia, October 18th. She had made a rattling passage of forty-nine days, from Port Chalmers, New Zealand, and, approaching the mouth of the Columbia in the darkness and thick weather, came in too close, and a sudden shift of wind prevented her from getting away from the land. The anchors were dropped, but the chains parted, and she drifted on the beach. The weather was comparatively calm, and, when an unsuccessful attempt was made to float her two weeks later, it was found that she had made less than five feet of water. As she could not be hauled off she was dismantled, and the hull remained in the sand for many years. The City of Dublin was valued at $40,000 and was in command of Capt. David Steven at the time of the disaster. E. W. Wright, Organization of Pacific Coast S. S. Co., Fierce Competition on Ocean Routes, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiq

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City Of Edmunds

M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 95, 98.

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City Of Ellensburg (steamer)

The stern-wheel steamer City of Ellensburg was constructed at Pasco in 1888 by Thomas L. Nixon, Tacoma mining man in association with L. E. Post of Tacoma and Ellensburg business interests, for operation on the upper Columbia above the Big Bend. The steamer was insufficiently powered for the fast water service required of her, but in 1893 she was acquired by Capt. Griggs and rerifted with higher powered engines and bouer which greatly increased her capacity for the difficult river work. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1896, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 4.

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City Of Ellensburg (steamer)

The other, the City of Ellensburg, was one hundred and nineteen feet long, twenty-two feet nine inches beam, and four feet five inches hold, with engines twelve by thirty-six inches. Capt. Al Gray was her first master. She was purchased from the Nixon estate in 1892 by J.R. Peters and M. S. Donahue, and for the past two years has been run by Capt. C. E. Hansen. E. W. Wright, Large Increase in British Columbia's Inland and Ocean Steam Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,1961 [Wright originally wrote in 1895. Events in this chapter occurred in 1888.]., p.356.

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City Of Eureka (steamer)

Built by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation in 36 days from the keep laying to the trial trip in May of 1919. 8800 ton burden. Dean Collins, Stars of Oregon.,p. 103.

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City Of Everett

The whaleback City of Everett was launched at Everett in 1894 but was not completed until 1895. E. W. Wright. Growth of Deep-water Commerce, Great Loss of Life by Marine Disasters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961. [Wright completed his book in 1895 and the events described occurred in 1893 and 1894.]., p.414.

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City Of Everett (freighter)

The 59-foot freighter City of Everett, powered with a 40 horse power gas engine, was built at Tacoma. The vessel was later converted to steam and operated by the Skagit River Navigation & Trading Co. as the Stanwood. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 385.

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City Of Everett (steamer)

Built in Everett in 1900. 134 feet long. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p.205. Whaleback Steamer the City of Everett Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 424. Maritime memories the City of Everett built for the Seattle to Everett run, Marine Digest. November 2, 1985, p. 6. (il). History of the City of Everett, rebuilt as a ferry, renamed Liberty. Marine Digest. November 9, 1985, p. 5. Transformation of the City of Everett, Marine Digest. November 16, 1985, p. 6. Final transformation into waterfront restaurant, first as Golden Anchors on the Duwamish River, then as Four Winds on Lake Union, Marine Digest. November 23, 1985,p. 6.

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City Of Everett (steamer)

A vessel famous in the ealry steel ship building indsutry of the Pacific Northwest, the whaleback steamer City of Everett, built in Everett in 1894 departed from Santiago, Cuba, October 7, 1923 and was never heard from again. She was presumed to have foundered at sea with the loss of all hands, and was so listed among the losses of American vessels for the fiscal year 1924. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1924, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle : Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 357.

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City Of Everett (steamer)

The 134-foot City of Everett was built by N. C. Peterson of Everett to replace the stern-wheel steamer Greyhound on the Seattle - Everett run. The City of Everett proved to be a long-lived vessel, continuing in passenger service as the Liberty through World War I and later as a steam and diesel ferry under the names Liberty and Ballard. Retired from active service some years ago, she is still afloat on Lake Union, Seattle, as the Four Winds Restaurant. xxxx, p. 60.

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City Of Everett (steamer)

The largest craft of any description ever set afloat in the Northwest was the whaleback City of Everett, which was completed at Everett early in 1895 at a cost of nearly $300,000. This steamer, the material for which was brought out on the C. W. Wetmore, is three hundred and sixty-one feet long, forty-two feet beam, and twenty-six feet six inches hold, with engines twenty-four, thirty-eight and sixty-four by forty-two inches, turning a fourteen-foot propeller. She has four Scotch boilers eleven by twelve feet. While steaming in ballast she draws about fourteen feet aft and eleven feet forward, and when loaded has a draft of about twenty feet six inches. Her carrying capacity is 4,200 tons, beside 375 tons of fuel. The entire hull is constructed of steel, the plates being nine-sixteenths of an inch in thickness at the bottom, with double keel plates, the outside one being thirteen-sixteenths of an inch. The frame is composed of keel and keelson, with five rider keelsons on either side. Each frame is of angle s

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City Of Everett (steamer)

The famous whaleback steamer City of Everett built in 1894 by the American Steel Barge Co. at Everett was reported lost off the Caroline coast when she was rammed by the British steamship Kensington while towing the Standard Oil Barge No. 38 and abandoned by her crew. Captain B. J. Bates reported upon arriving at Wilmington, North Carolina, on March 4, 1912, that the City of Everett sank five minutes after the collision. She was salvaged, however, and continued in the service of the Standard Oil Company as a tanker for aother decade becoming a mysterious casualty of the sea with the loss of all hands in 1923. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 212-13.

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City Of Everett (steamer)

In addition to the new steel steamer Kulshan, which was completed and placed in service in 1910, and the Sioux, launched December 31, 1910 and placed in service the following year, the Puget Sound Navigation Co. purchased the propeller steamer City of Everett of 1900 and the stern -wheel steamer Telegraph of 1903, along with the other assets of the Seattle-Everett Navigation Co., a subsidiary of the Columbia River & Puget Sound Navigation Co. headed by Capt. U. B. Scott. This left only the famous Flyer among the Scott boats in competition with the Green-Peabody steamers on the Sound. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 175.

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City Of Flint

Famed City of Flint arrives in Tacoma harbor, The Tacoma Times. July 10, 1940.

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City Of Honolulu

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century p. 54, 71.

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City Of Honolulu (1)

See PRINCESS ALICE.

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City Of Honolulu (2)

See FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE.

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City Of Honolulu Ii, 1927

1930. (Steamer) - Undaunted by the loss of the first City of Honolulu in 1922, the Los Angeles Steamship Company (LASSCO) continued to provide service between Hawaii and Los Angeles. In 1926 LASSCO bought from the Shipping Board another ex-German liner, the Prinzess Alice, which the company renamed the City of Honolulu, in spite of what had befallen the first vessel with this name. After extensive renovation work, the City of Honolulu II made the first voyage on the Los Angeles-Hawaii route in June 1927 and operated successfully, at least in the initial years. On 25 May 1930, while the ship was docked in Honolulu harbor, a fire broke out, and although all available fire-fighting equipment was rushed to the scene, the ship continued to blaze for twelve hours and was judged a total loss by the company. Later, however, the ship was able to reach California under her own power but never returned to service and was laid up and finally scrapped in 1933. Rene de la Pedraja. A historicla dictionary of the U.S. Mercha

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City Of Honolulu, 1922 (steamer)

The Los Angeles Steamship Company (LASSCO) established regular service between Los Angeles and Hawaii in the fall of 1922 with vessels bought from the Shipping Board. The City of Los Angeles, a former German liner, inaugurated the service on 11 September and was followed by the City of Honolulu (the former German liner Friedrich der Grosse) on 23 September. The City of Honolulu reached Hawaii safely, but on 12 October during the return voyage and 600 miles from the coast of California, a fire broke out in the early hours of the morning. The flames spread rapidly, and at 6:00 A.M- the captain sent an SOS; although the fire appeared to be under control, the vessel began to list heavily to the port side and the captain decided to abandon ship. While the orchestra played, the efficient crew lowered the boats with all the passengers, and by 10:00 A.M. the last of the crew had safely departed the City of Honolulu. Fortunately the sea was calm and smooth, no lives were lost, and by mid-afternoon the first rescue shi

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City Of Kingston

The Northern Pacific Railway, a major factor in steamboat operations on Puget Sound for a decade, retired from the field in May, 1899, turning over the Victoria route, formerly served by the City of Kingston, to the Washington & Alaska Steamship Co. of Dodwell & Co., the Tacoma-Seattle-Port Townsend mail contract being likewise transferred to Dodwell & Co. The railway began operating steamers on Puget Sound in 1889, the old Washington Steamboat Co. being purchased from Capt. D. B. Jackson and associates, Capt. Jackson assuming the duties of general manager of the new rauroad-owned Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co. The City of Kingston was then brought out from the East Coast making the voyage by way of MageUan Straits in the creditable time of 61 days, followed shortly by the new City of Seattle. Walter Oakes, son of President Thomas F. Oakes of the Northern Pacific, took up residence at Tacoma as secretary and later superintendent of the steamship company, leaving to join Charles Peabody and others in formi

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City Of Kingston (ferry)

The little diesel ferry City of Kingston, rebuilt from the wrecked Sound freighter Rubaiyat, was sold by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. to Capt. William P. Thornton and renamed Lake Constance on the Seabeck - Brinnon crossing. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1934, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 430.

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City Of Kingston (steamer)

The City of Kingston built in Wilmington, Delaware in 1884 was originally intended for the Hudson Bay River Trade. The three decked, steel hull, propeller steamer measured 246 ft in length with a beam of 33.5 ft and a 12 ft hold. She had stateroom accommodations for 300 and could carry another 900 passengers. In 1890 Captain D.B. Jackson purchased the large steamer from Cornell Steamboat Co. for the Puget Sound & Alaskan Steamship Co. He was so impressed by the handling and appointments of the City of Kingston that he contracted for a sistership, City of Seattle, to be built on the same plan. Captain Melville Nichols brought the steamer around Cape Horn to Port Townsend after her purchase in 1890. For the next decade the City of Kingston ran service between Victoria, British Columbia, Port Townsend, and Seattle. In the middle of the night on April 24, 1899, the City of Kingston was on her final approach to Tacoma. Simultaneously, the Northern Pacific steamship Glenogle pulled away from a Tacoma pier to begin

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City Of Kingston (steamer)

Captain James Griffiths Shipping Activities in the Pacific Northwest, The Sea Chest. X (March 1977). Built in New York in 1884. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p.205. James McCurdy, By Juan De Fuca's Strait., p. 284. Roland Carey, West Point collision of steamers recounted, Marine Digest May 19, 1984,p. 11+ This was the collision with the Mary F. Perley on November 10,1894. Marine Digest. LVII (January 20, 1979). PM, December 1890, p. 292. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. p. 364. West Coast Trade. Annual Edition , 1899 p. 27. City of Kingston disaster here recalled, The Tacoma News Tribune. July 5, 1953.

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City Of Kingston (steamer)

The passenger steamer City of Kingston had left her Seattle dock on her usual Victoria passenger and express run. At 2:07 on the morning of the 5th she was abeam of Point Wilson, where she plunged into a heavy sea which completely engulfed her to the pilot house; Capt. Samuel Clements, knowing the seas were heavier at this point on account of the shoal water than in the open strait maintained steerage way and managed to get clear of the point He found the seas still too heavy to admit of his proceeding to Victoria or of putting about for Port Townsend, his only course being to work on a slow bell with the wind on his starboard bow putting him into the lee of Protection Island, where the steamer remained until the gale abated. The night was totally dark, with objects not discernable at even short distances and when the positions of the passenger steamer and the helplessly drifting ship are calculated as of 2:15 that morning, neither knowing of the proximity of the other, it seems probable that they were within

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City Of Kingston (steamer)

One of the most sensational of the marine mishaps of 1.899, although fortunately not accompanied by loss of life, was the sinking of the passenger steamer City of Kingston at Tacoma in April. The Northern Pacific ocean steamship Glenogle was departing her Tacoma pier for a trans -Pacific voyage before dawn on April 24 as the City of Kingston, also operated by the railroad company, was coming in at the termination of her regular run from Victoria, Port Townsend and Seattle. The larger vessel swung in the tide and struck the passenger steamer. The pilots of both steamers knew the crash was coming and the distress calls of their whistles brought horrified citizens of Tacoma from their beds. The Kingston was cut clear in two just aft of the boilers and sank in a few minutes. Her wooden upperworks fortunately broke loose and remained afloat, with the result that not a single life was lost, although most of the passengers and many of the crew had been asleep just before the collision. Capt. James Hutcheson of the G

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City Of Kingston (steamer)

The City of Kingston was built at Wilmington, Del., in 1884, for the Hudson River trade. She was bought in 1889 by Capt. D. B. Jackson, and her performances since have demonstrated the wisdom of the purchaser, for a more economical steamer, size and speed considered, has not yet appeared on the Sound. The Kingston is two hundred and forty-six feet long, thirty-three feet five inches beam, and twelve feet hold, net tonnage 816. She has three decks and is elegantly fitted up with stateroom accommodations for over three hundred passengers. She was brought from the East by Melville Nichols, captain; W. A. Coffin, first officer; William Andtsjer, second officer; W. J. Green, chief engineer; C. H. Wolford, first assistant; Harry R. Dann, second assistant; W. C. Hogan, steward; Nicholas Van Patton and James Martin, quartermasters, Her actual running time from New York to Port Townsend was sixty-one days, and on her way out she stopped two days at the Barbadoes and four at Rio Janeiro, where she coaled. She came thro

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City Of Latona (steamer)

The steamer City of Latona, length sixty feet, beam twelve feet, was built for the Lake Union trade. She is at present owned by M. F. Kunkler. E. W. Wright, Finest Steamers in the Northwest Appear on Puget Sound Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and events referred to in this chapter generally took place in 1889., p.375.

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City Of Latona (sternwheeler)

Built on Lake Union in 1890. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205.

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City Of Limerick

The "City of Limerick" was built in 1855 by Smith & Rodger, Glasgow for British owners, as the "African". She was purchased by the Inman Line of Liverpool in 1863 and renamed "City of Limerick". Her details were - 1,529 gross tons, length 281ft x beam 34.4ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. She started her first voyage for the Inman Line on 29/5/1863 when she sailed from Liverpool for Queenstown (Cobh) and New York. In 1870 she was rebuilt to 2,536 gross tons, lengthened to 331.1ft and fitted with compound engines by G.Forrester & Co, Liverpool. She started her last Liverpool - Queenstown - New York sailing on 20/5/1874 and was chartered to the American Line for their Liverpool - Philadelphia service in July 1875. She made her sixth and last voyage on this route in August 1876 and then made a single round voyage in November 1876 for the Inman Line between Bordeaux and New York. Again chartered to the American Line, she resumed Liverpool - Philadelphia sailings in January 1877, making her fifth and last voyage on this service in May 1878. She resumed Liverpool - New York voyages for Inman on 3/7/1878 for three round voyages, the last commencing on 25/10/1879 and was then sold to the Thistle Line of London. She started her first London - New York voyage on 26/3/1880 and left London on her last round voyage on 5/12/1881. Sailed from New York on the homeward passage on 8/1/1882 and went missing with the loss of 43 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.240-1] -

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City Of Lincoln

See SOLIS .

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City Of Long Beach (passenger Vessel)

The twin-screw passenger vessel City of Long Beach, built at San Pedro in 1906 by Charles Fulton for excursion service, and fitted with two gasoline engines of 200-horsepower, was brought to Puget Sound and operated for a time as an opposition boat on the Seattle -Port Angeles run, later passing to the Puget Sound Navigation Co., and long in that service, both as a passenger and ferry vessel. Her unsatisfactory gas engines were removed following her arrival on the Sound, being replaced with two triple-expansion steam engines (9, 14V2, 25 x 16), developing 750 horsepower. Her name was also changed to City of Angeles, her tonnage being listed at 258, with dimensions of 128.1 x 21.3 x 8.6. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 163.

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City Of Long Beach (steamer)

A new company known as the Port Angeles Transportation Co. was formed at Port Angeles in June by Peter Grubb and associates and the Angeles Brewing Co., purchasing the gasoline-engined City of Long Beach, which had been brought up from California in 1909, from the Stetson estate at Seattle, the vessel having been laid up for some time at Eagle Harbor. With her name changed to City of Angeles she was placed on the Port Angeles-Seattle run, but the unpredictable behavior of her early gasoline engines made her schedule a thing of great uncertainty. Following a costly conversion to steam, she resumed her run the following summer after a layup of five months, being purchased shortly afterward by the Puget Sound Navigation Co., who used her on various Sound routes. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966.. p. 218.

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City Of Lordsburg (steamer)

City of Lorxisburg, 3,545-ton Shipping Board steel steamship 324 feet long, built at Baltimore in 1920, purchased from the govemment by James Griffiths & Sons and assigned to the Coastwise Steamship & Barge Co. as the James Griffiths. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 375.

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City Of Los Angeles

See GROSSER KURFURST.

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City Of Manchester

The "City of Manchester" belonged to the British owned Inman Line, and was built in 1851 by Tod & McGregor, Glasgow. She was a 2,109 gross ton ship, length 265.3ft x beam 37.5ft, clipper stem, one funnel, four masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 9 knots. Launched on 14th Jun.1851, she left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Philadelphia on 26th Jul.1851. She started her last voyage on this service on 20th Dec.1854, and in 1855 was chartered by the French and used as a Crimean War transport. She resumed Liverpool - Philadelphia sailings on 3rd Aug.1856, and commenced her last voyage on this route on 6th May 1857. On 24th Aug.1857 she left London for Calcutta as an Indian Mutiny transport and on 22nd Dec.1858 started Liverpool - New York sailings. In 1862, after 48 North Atlantic sailings, she was fitted with new boilers and started her final voyage between Liverpool, Queenstown (Cobh), Halifax and New York on 28th Jan.1871. Later the same year, she was sold, her engines were removed and she operated as a sailing ship until 1876, when she was wrecked. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.238-9] -

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City Of Mecca

See NUBIAN.

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City Of Mukilteo (ferryboat)

Built in Seattle in 1927. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 206. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 174, 249.

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City Of Nanaimo (steamer)

Built at Vancouver in 1891. Named Bowena and Cheam. Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb. The Princess Story, p. 341.

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City Of Nanaimo (steamer)

The Canadian Pacific B. C. coast service was augmented in 1905 by the purchase of the rail and steamship lines of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Co. from the Dunsmuir coal interests. Included in the sale were the wooden passenger steamers City of Nanaimo and Joan, the tugboats Czar and Escort No. 2, and the barge Georgian. The City of Nanaimo normally ran on the passenger route between Victoria, Nanaimo and Comox, with intermediate calls at the Gulf Islands, while the Joan normally ran between Vancouver and Nanaimo. By the acquisition of this service, the C. P. R. was able to enter the lucrative Nanaimo run. The City of Nanaimo was built by Mc Alpin and Allen at Vancouver in 1891 for the Mainland & Nanaimo Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. of New Westminster, and was acquired by James Dunsmuir on a mortgage foreclosure in 1896. She was a wooden vessel of 518 tons, 159 x 32 x 9.4, powered by a reciprocating engine of 750 horsepower and capable of a speed of 11 knots. She was operated briefly during the gold rush un

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City Of New York (1)

The "City of New York" was a 2,360 gross ton ship, built in 1861 by Tod & MacGregor, Glasgow for the Inman Line. Her details were - length 336ft x beam 40ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 12 knots. There was accommodation for 158-cabin and 700-3rd class passengers. Launched on 12/4/1861, she sailed from Liverpool on 11/9/1861 on her maiden voyage to Queenstown (Cobh) and New York. Her last voyage started on 24/2/1864 when she left Liverpool for Queenstown and New York and on her homeward journey, when approaching Queenstown in the early morning of 29th March 1864, she struck the sunken reef known as Daunt's Rock, and became a total loss. There were no casualties. [ North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,pps.224/240]

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City Of New York (2)

The second "City of New York" was a 2,642 gross ton ship built by Tod & MacGregor, Glasgow in 1865. Length 321ft x beam 39.6ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 12 knots. Launched as the "Delaware" for Richardson, Spence & Co, Liverpool on 25/2/1865, she went to Inman Line the same year and was renamed "City of New York". On 7/6/1865 she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Queenstown (Cobh) and New York. In 1871 she was rebuilt to a length of 375.2ft and 3,523 gross tons and on 4/4/1871 resumed the Liverpool - Queenstown - New York service. In September 1876 she was chartered to the American Line and completed three round voyages between Liverpool and Philadelphia, and the following year was fitted with compound engines. She was then chartered to the Guion Line and on 8/6/1878 commenced the first of 2 round voyages between Liverpool - Queenstown and New York. On 19/12/1882 she commenced her last voyage for the Inman Line when she left Liverpool for New York and in 1883 went to the Allan Line and was renamed "Norwegian". Fitted with new compound engines, she commenced Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal sailings on 12/6/1884, Glasgow - New York sailings on 20/11/1891 and Glasgow - Boston sailings on 4/7/1896. Her last Glasgow - New York voyage commenced on 28/4/1900 and her last Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal voyage on 23/5/1903. She was scrapped the same year in Holland. [ North Atlantic Seaway , by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.241] -

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City Of New York (3)

The "City of New York" was an iron built, 3,019 gross ton, screw propulsion steamer with a speed of 14 knots. She was built in 1875 by Roach, Chester, PA for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.and sailed on her first voyage from San Francisco to Kandavau (Fiji) and Sydney on 24th April 1876. On 26th October 1893 she was wrecked on Point Bonita, San Francisco Bay. The company ran a service between San Francisco, Fiji, Honolulu and Australia / New Zealand ports and from 1879, advertised in the London Times "An overland route from Britain to Australia, New Zealand, China, etc, via New York and San Francisco in connection with the Anchor Line from London or Glasgow to New York. Through tickets are available". [North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber] -

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City Of New York (4)

See NEW YORK (2).

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City Of New York (steamer)

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company (PMSS) ordered the City of New York and the sister ships, the City of San Francisco and the City of Sydney, to inaugurate in 1875 a new PMSS route from San Francisco to Australia. The three ships were iron steamers with screws and compound engines but were smaller than the much larger City of Tokyo and City of Peking, which the PMSS operated between San Francisco and the Far East. The Australian route offered little cargo, and consequently PMSS shifted the City of San Francisco to the route between Panama and San Francisco. On 16 May 1877 the City of San Francisco was wrecked on Tartar Shoal, near Acapulco, Mexico, but without any loss of life. When PMSS abandoned the Australia service in 1885, it transferred the City of Sydney and the City of New York to its other routes. The former continued in service until it was laid up in 1910, but on 26 October 1893 the latter ran into the rocks of Point Bonita right inside San Francisco Bay. The captain did not want to delay his sail

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City Of Nome (motorship)

The 2,169-ton wooden motorship City of Nome of 1919, Capt. H. G. Wigsten, caught fire while taking on fuel at Aberdeen June 3 after loading a lumber cargo, was grounded and burned out. She was owned at the time by Flood Bros. of San Francisco. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 389.

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City Of Olympia

Built at Olympia in 1898, Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205.

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City Of Olympia (tug)

A 51 -ton steam tug, the City of Olympia, 56.4 x 16.9, was built by Keton Brothers at Olympia for Alaska service, making a few trips to Port Simpson and Skagway, passing to Pacific American Fisheries in 1900 and used as a cannery and fishtrap tender at Fairhaven. In 1906 she received a new (9, 18 x 14) compound engine, which was later removed and placed in the new tug Nile, the hull of the City of Olympia being sold to the Lillico Launch & Tug Co. of Seattle, who fitted her with gasoline engines and renamed her Arab. Later receiving a 180-horsepower diesel engine and another new name, Dividend, she eventually became a unit of the Bellingham Tug & Barge Co. fleet, and is still in commission at Seattle. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1898, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 33.

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City Of Panama (steamer)

The old iron steamer City of Panama of 1873, rerigged from a coal barge to a five-masted schooner during World War I and owned by Thomas Crowley, was sold to South American owners for conversion to a motorship. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 307.

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City Of Panama (steamer)

Despite the fact that a storm of public indignation had been aroused by the tragic loss of the Portland - San Francisco steamer Columbia, it being generally considered that she was worn out and unseaworthy, the Harriman interests, in a classic example of the public be damned attitude common to many transportation companies in that era, replaced her on the run with an even older and more decrepit vessel, the ancient City of Panama. Built at Chester, Pennsylvania in 1873, her iron hull was uncompartmented and her wheezy compound engine gave her a top speed of about eight knots. She was originally in service in the Pacific Mail Company's route between New York and Aspinwall, on the Isthmus of Panama, later being placed in coastwise passenger service on the Pacific. In recent years she had been engaged in freighting coffee from Central America to San Francisco. During one of the strikes at San Francisco against the Pacific Mail Co. she was tied up for some time along the waterfront as a floating dormitory for s

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City Of Panama (steamer)

In August [1875] the new steamship City of Panama, Captain Seabury, D. E. Griffith, first officer, made her initial trip to Victoria and the Sound. She had been built at John Roach's yard a few months before, and in command of Seabury ran north for several years. E. W. Wright, Loss of the 'Pacific,' New Transportation Companies on the Willamette and Columbia, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.235.

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City Of Papeete

Edward Hungerford. Wells Fargo, p. 155.

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City Of Papeete (barkentine)

City of Papeete, barkentine of 389 tons and 370M capacity, was built at Fairhaven by Bendixsen in 1883 for the Tahiti packet line of J. G. Berude, San Francisco. In 1901 she was bought by the Alaska Codfish Co., San Francisco, and in 1912 was cut down to a baldheaded schooner. Her last codfishing voyage was in 1928, since which year she has been laid up in San Francisco Bay near the company's plant, and it would take a lot of refitting to get her to sea again. John Lyman, Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. Mar. 15, 1941, p. 2.

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City Of Paris

See PHILADELPHIA.

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City Of Pekin

W. Henry Barneby. Life and Labour in the Far West, 1884., p. 84.

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City Of Portland (schooner)

The well -known peacetime yard of Saint Helens Shipbuilding Company established in 1912 as a subsidiary of Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co. and operating three ways, was incorporated as a separate concern in 1916, work then being under way on the 1,791-ton five-masted bald-headed auxiliary schooner City of Portland, a twin-screw vessel with two 320-horsepower Bolinder oil engines. She was designed and her construction supervised by J. H. Price and she was launched October 15, 1916 as the largest single-deck wooden vessel ever built in the United States to that time, having a lumber carrying capacity of 2,000,000 board feet. Following her completion she was placed under charter to the U. S. Shipping Board. Gordon Newell, World War I ship buidling, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 280.

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City Of Puebla (steamer)

Steamship City of Puebla, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 368.

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City Of Puebla (steamer)

The City of Puebla was an iron steamer of 2,980 tons, built at Philadelphia in 1881 for Ward Line service between New York and Havana, on which run she held the speed record for some time. Her dimensions were 320.6 x 38.6 x 16.6 and she was fitted with a com- pound (40, 86 x 60) engine developing 2,300 horsepower, with steam at 115 pounds pressure from four single-ended Scotch marine boilers. Following her establishment on the Puget Sound-San Francisco route in 1889 she attained the speed record for the San Francisco to Victoria run, making the voyage in 50 hours and later reducing that time to 48-1/2 hours. Among her well-known masters in Pacific Coast service were Captains Debney, Jepsen, C. J. Hanna and Thomas Reilly. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1916, H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966

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City Of Puebla (steamer)

The steamship City of Puebla was placed on the Puget Sound route in 1889 in command of Captain Debney, who was for many years master of the State of California. A. H. Kress was chief engineer, and in October the steamer made the fastest passage on record between San Francisco and Victoria, covering the distance in fifty hours. This time was reduced by the same steamer a year later to forty-eight and one-half hours. The City of Puebla is three hundred and twenty feet six inches long, thirty-eight feet six inches beam, seventeen feet hold, and is still on the Victoria route. E. W. Wright, Finest Steamers in the Northwest Appear on Puget Sound Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and events referred to in this chapter generally took place in 1889., p.368.

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City Of Quincy (steamer)

Steamer City of Quincy. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 259. Built at Portland in 1878, Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 41.

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City Of Quincy (steamer)

The former Lewis River steamer City of Quincy, built at Portland in 1878, was dismantled on the Snohomish River. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1896, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966

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City Of Quincy (steamer)

The steamer City of Quincy was launched at Portland in 1878 for the Lewis River trade, making her trial trip November 12th. She was built by Buchanan Brothers, and the following year went on the Dayton route in command of Capt. I. B. Sanborn, with Richard Oakley, purser. Capt. W. S. Buchanan took charge of her in 1882 and remained with her until June, 1882, when she was sold to Puget Sound parties for the Skagit River traffic. Her first master on the Sound was Daniel Benson, who was succeeded by Captains Denny, Bailey, Gatter, Sinclair, Parker and others. Among her engineers were Charles H. Grinwald and I. J. Honian. The Quincy was one hundred and ten feet long, twenty-two feet beam, and four feet six inches hold, with engines twelve by forty-eight inches. E. W. Wright, Organization of Pacific Coast S. S. Co., Fierce Competition on Ocean Routes, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.259.

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City Of Renton (steamer)

City of Renton, length forty feet, beam ten feet, depth three feet five inches. E. W. Wright. Growth of Deep-water Commerce, Great Loss of Life by Marine Disasters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961. [Wright completed his book in 1895 and the events described occurred in 1893 and 1894.]., p.414.

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City Of Renton (tugboat)

Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 146.

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City Of Rio De Janeiro

Passenger steamship, American flag, struck foul ground at the entrance to the Golden Gate February 22, 1901, and went to the bottom claiming an estimated 129 lives of passengers and crew. Valencia, passenger steamer, American, stranded in thick weather near Pachena Point, Vancouver Island, January 22, 1906. Somewhere between I 1 7 and 126 lives were lost in the harrowing hours that followed.

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City Of Rio De Janeiro (steamer)

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City Of Rio De Janeiro, 1878

1901. (Liner) - The City of Rio de Janeiro, completed in 1878, was one of five ships the shipbuilder John Roach constructed in his vain attempt to make the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company successful venture. The City of Rio de Janeiro was an iron screw steamer with compound engine and capable of twelve knots, and although she was not big for the time, just like her sister vessels, she was too large for the barely incipient trade between the United States and Brazil. Roach and his partners took heavy losses in the United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company, and when the service was suspended in 1881, Pacific Mail Steamship Company (PMSS) bought the City of Rio de Janeiro at a giveaway price. The City of Rio de Janeiro performed well in the transpacific service for nearly twenty years. in the morning of 22 February 1901, the captain of the City of Rio de Janeiro was anchored outside San Francisco Bay, waiting for the fog to clear in order to enter the bay; the visibility improved, but fifte

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City Of Rome (1)

The "City of Rome" was built in 1881 by Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow for the Inman Line. She was a 8415 gross ton vessel, length 560.2ft x beam 52.3ft, clipper stem, three funnels, four masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 16 knots. There was accommodation for 271-1st, 250-2nd and 810-3rd class passengers. Launched on 14/6/1881 she left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Queenstown [Cobh] and New York on 13/10/1881. She made 5 round voyages and was then transferred to Henderson's Anchor Line, and made her first voyage for them from Liverpool - Queenstown - NY commencing 25/8/1882. On 4/10/1890 she left Liverpool on her last voyage on this service and was transferred to the Glasgow - Moville - NY run, commencing 7/5/1891 and was rebuilt to accommodate 75-1st, 250-2nd and 1,000- 3rd class passengers. In September 1898 she was used to repatriate 1690 Spanish troops from Portsmouth, USA to Santander, Spain after the Spanish - American war. On 26/9/1901 she left Glasgow on her last trip to Moville, NY and back to Glasgow and was scrapped in Germany in 1902. She was considered by many to be the most beautiful steamer ever built.[E-mail from Ted Finch to Karin Corbeil - 1 September 1997 (compliments of Karin Corbeil)]

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City Of Rome (2)

The CITY OF ROME that sank the S-51 was a coastal passenger steamer of the Savannah Line. She was named for the city of Rome in the State of Georgia, not the one in Italy. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey in 1911 as the SUWANNEE of the Merchants & Miners Line, and was sold to the Savannah Line in September 1917. She was sold back to Merchants & Miners in 1928 and renamed SOMERSET, and was broken up at Baltimore in 1938. For Merchants & Miners she ran between Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, and Jacksonville, Florida. For the Savannah Line she ran between Boston and Savannah. 3648 tons enrolled length 309 ft., breadth 46 ft. 170 passengers only carried cargo after July 936 Jacksonville steamboat and steamship historian Ed Mueller is currently working on a history of Merchants & Miners. -

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City Of Sacramento (ferry)

The City of Sacramento, one of the largest automobile ferries in the world, was also purchased for the mushrooming Seattle - Bremerton traffic. This was originally the noted East Coast express steamer Asbury Park of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, which was brought to the West Coast in 1918 by Capt. Fred Warner and Chief Engineer Samuel Sutton for the Monticello Steamship Company's Mare Island route. Built in 1908 by the Cramp yard, the 3,016-ton steel speedster with dimensions of 297 x 50 x 15.5 had been used in commuter traffic between New York and New Jersey coast points. At that time she was a coal burner, her two four-cylinder triple-expansion engines (23, 37;/2, 43, 43 x 30) and nine boilers providing her with 5,900 horsepower and a speed in excess of 20 knots. Following her arrival she was converted to oil fuel, the number of boilers was reduced, and she was changed from a two-stacker to a single-stacked vessel. In 1922 she was converted to carry automobiles. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941

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City Of Sacramento (ferry)

Two well-known Puget Sound ferries emerged in new roles during 1953, both undergoing such complete renovation that they were practically unrecognizable. The steam ferry City of Sacramento (ex - Asbury Park) was turned over to Yarrows at Esquimalt, stripped to the hull and tanks, and completely rebuilt as the streamlined motor ferry Kahloke for the Horseshoe Bay (Vancouver)-Nanaimo route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. (Black Ball Line Ltd.) As the Kahloke she was fitted to carry 1,000 passengers and 100 automobiles, with six automobile lanes on her 275-foot car deck. Her original steam engines were removed and replaced by four V - 16 General Motors diesel -electric engines, each rated at 1,750-horsepower, this propulsion system being similar to that of the company's Chinook. The handsomely appointed vessel proved capable of a 19-knot service speed for her five dally round trips across the Gulf of Georgia. Capt. Douglas Reynolds, former Canadian Pacific master, was marine superintendent for the Black Ball Ca

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City Of Sacramento (ferryboat)

Built in Philadelphia in 1903. Formerly the Asbury Park. Laid up in 1950. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 206. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 250, 259, 271, 278-79, 310.

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City Of Salem

Steamer City of Salem taking on freight at a river landing, Quarterdeck Review. V (Summer, 1977).

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City Of Salem (steamer)

The steamer City of Salem, the finest Willamette steamer yet floated, was built, making her trial trip October 21, 1875. The success of this steamer was but a continuation of that enjoyed by the Ohio. She could carry an immense load on very shallow water, and when light her master asserted that all she needed to run on was a heavy dew. In February, 1876, she ascended the Santiam as far as Jefferson. In July, 1878, her engines were replaced by larger ones, those of the City of Salem being transferred to the Ohio, and when she was again in service she was commanded by Capt. E. W. Spencer, J. W. Newkirk, purser, Perry Scott, engineer. Captain Sanborn was also master of the steamer in 1878, and James D. Miller ran her in 1880. In 1881 she was purchased by William Reid, better known as Dundee Reid, who used her in connection with the Oregonian Railroad. Capt. J. P. Coulter handled her for a short time, and George Raabe was in charge for six years. She was thoroughly overhauled in 1884, and the following year, whil

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City Of San Diego

City of San Diego in the Northwest sealing fleet, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 453.

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City Of San Diego (schooner)

A Canadian schooner, 48 tons, built at San Francisco in 1871. Lost with all hands somewhere south of Cape Flattery in 1902. Some of her wreckage was found on the beach at Ozette, Washington. This vessel was one of the better Imown units of the Pacific sealing fleet during much of her career. She caught seals until 1895 and came under the British (Canadian) flag in 1893. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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City Of San Diego (schooner)

(two-masted schooner) Reg. No. 100645 Engines: Two 3-cylinder 80 Owner: Northern Freighters Ltd., 627 Vancouver Block, Vancouver. Became the first Canadian rum running ship on April 15, 1922. Fraser Miles. Slow boat on Rum Row. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing Company, 1992.

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City Of San Diego (schooner)

The year 1883 marked the beginning of an important epoch in the sealing business, with the entrance of the first schooner into Bering Sea. The pioneer craft in this disputed territory was the American City of San Diego, in charge of Captain Cathcart and Daniel McLean. She left San Francisco, March 29th, with three hunters, entered Bering Sea and took 900 seals, landed at Hall Island and killed a few polar bears, and arrived at Victoria with her catch October 11th. E. W. Wright, A Brief History of the British Columbia Sealing Industry, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.427.

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City Of San Diego (schooner)

The latter, in command of Capt. George Wester, went over to Copper Island, near which the McLean Brothers met with misfortune. Capt. Dan McLean made a raid on the island, and was surprised by a party of Russians, who opened fire, wounding McLean. The crew with him were unhurt and took to the boats, reaching the schooner in safety with the exception of one man, Talbot, who was so frightened that he fell overboard and drowned. Sail was made and the schooner got away from the dangerous locality as rapidly as possible. E. W. Wright, A Brief History of the British Columbia Sealing Industry, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.436-7.

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City Of San Francisco (dinner Excursion Boat)

Nichols Brothers, Freeland, builds vessel to resemble the turn of the century boat from Nickum and Spaulding design, Marine Digest. (October 6, 1984), p. 3. (il)

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City Of San Francisco (liner)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 5.

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City Of Seattle

Built at Philadelphia in 1889. 250 feet long. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205.

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City Of Seattle

Morgan, Puget's Sound, p. 299.

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City Of Seattle

Completes record of 57,000 miles in 14 months by thirty voyages. Tacoma Daily Ledger November 8, 1989, p. 3.

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City Of Seattle

The veteran Alaska steamship City of Seattle was completely remodeled and refurnished in 1914 at the plant of the Seattle Construction & Drydock Co., more than $100,000 being expended in the work, which included the installation of two new boilers, new cargo-handling equipment and the replacement of the wooden upperworks from her main to upper decks with steel. The City of Seattle remained a coal burner, oil fuel being still difficult to obtain in Alaska ports. She resumed service to southeastern Alaska late in March in charge of Capt. Thomas Johnson, who had commanded the vessel for the past three years. C. B. Harland was chief engineer, H. J. Allen, first officer, and H. O. Johnson purser. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1914, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.224.

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City Of Seattle (alaska Crab Boat)

This vessel sank northwest of Kodiak Island in September of 1981. She was a 96 foot steel ship. Submerged crabber raised from 180 feet of water after three years. Salvaged by Alaska Diving Service of Ketchikan, National Fisherman. (February, 1985), p. 4.

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City Of Seattle (bng, P. 282)

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City Of Seattle (crabber)

Submerged Alaska crabber raised after three years. Sank September, 1981 off Northwest Coast of Kodiak Island in 180 feet of water. National Fisherman. February, 1985, West Coast Focus section, p. 4.

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City Of Seattle (iron Steamer)

This vessel had three decks and two masts 1957 tons. 244.6 x 40 x 15 feet. 59 crew and 234 passengers. 12.4 knots. Built in Philadelphia in 1890. Prior to 1916 she was operated by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. Between 1916 and 1921 she was operated under the Admiral Line flag in the Alaska trade. Sold in 1921 and operated on the Atlantic Coast. Scrapped in 1937. Gilbert Brown. Ships that sail no more.

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City Of Seattle (sidewheeler)

NM, p. 31. February, 1891. PM, p. 292. December, 1890. Built at Portland in 1888. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea,p. 205.

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City Of Seattle (steam Ferry)

The steam ferry City of Seattle, 272 gross tons, 121.5 x 33.2 x 8.6, was the first double-ended vehicle ferry in use on Puget Sound. She was a side-wheel vessel with two 16 x 60 single cylinder engines of 135 horsepower each, raising steam in a single return-tube boiler five fc@et, six inches in diameter and 22 feet long, with a working pressure of 100 pounds. She was in operation between the foot of Main, and later Madison Streets, Seattle, to West Seattle, from the time of her completion until 1911. In 1913 she was sold to the Martinez & Benicia Ferry Co. and towed to California by the steam schooner William Chatham. During World War 11 she was extensively rebuilt by the government and is now the property of Alexis Tellis of Sausalito, registered as a yacht. Although still under her original name and driven by side-wheels, her steam engines hax,e been replaced by diesel power. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1903, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 96.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

James Bashford, Harbor gossip, Tacoma Daily Ledger. March 15, 1937.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The famous old Alaska Flyer of gold rush days, the passengers steamship City of Seattle, was sold on the East Coast by the Miami Steamship Co. and scrapped at Philadelphia, where she had been built in 1890. The old steamer had been out of service for several years and was towed from New York to the wrecking yard. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 458.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The famous steamship City of Seattle, the old Alaska Lightning Express of gold rush days, was sold by the Pacific Steamship Co. to C. L. Dimon of Jacksonville, Florida, for the Miami Steamship Co., returning to the East Coast for a new career in coastwise passenger service which was to last for many years. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922, H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 322.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The City of Seattle and City of Kingston, brought to the Pacific Northwest in 1890 by Capt. D. B. Jackson for the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co., were the most magnificent inland passenger vessels to serve the area during the 19th century. The City of Seattle, of steel construction below the main deck, of 1,957 tons, with dimensions of 244.6 x 40 x 15, and driven by a 2,500 horse power triple expansion engine, was built at Philadelphia to Capt. Jackson's specifications at a cost of a quarter of a million dollars. Although a splendid ship, she was too expensive to operate during the hard times and from 1894 until the beginning of the gold rush she was out of service, while the City of Kingston handled the company's Puget Sound-British Columbia service. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 14.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The steamer City of Seattle, in Pacific Coast Steamship Co. service, struck a rock near Eagle Harbor, sustaining damages amounting to $ 9,000. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1904. H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 101.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The large sidewheel ferry-boat City of Seattle was brought around from Portland, where she had been constructed by John F. Steffen. Her dimensions are: length, one hundred and twenty-five feet five inches; beam, thirty-three feet two inches; depth of hold, eight and one-half feet. She is still running between the Puget Sound metropolis and West Seattle, Capt. W. I. Waitt serving as pilot. E. W. Wright, Large Increase in British Columbia's Inland and Ocean Steam Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd.,1961 [Wright originally wrote in 1895. Events in this chapter occurred in 1888.]., p.357.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The Kingston's sister ship, the City of Seattle, built at Philadelphia under orders from D. B. Jackson, was completed in May, 1890, at a cost of $225,000. Capt. Melville Nichols, who had made such a successful voyage with the Kingston, returned East and brought the new steamer to Seattle. With him were Robert Turner, chief engineer; Charles E. Ames, first officer; and F. A. Woodman, second officer. Since her advent on the coast Captain Nichols and Engineer Turner have been in charge, except at intervals when she has been handled by Captains Edward Clements and George Roberts. The City of Seattle is two hundred and forty-four feet six inches long, forty feet beam, and fifteen feet hold, net tonnage 912. E. W. Wright, Finest Steamers in the Northwest Appear on Puget Sound Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and events referred to in this chapter generally took place in 1889., p.374.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The steamer, City of Seattle was a popular Seattle-Alaska passenger steamer grounded in Tongass Narrows, near Ketchikan, August 15, 1913. Refloating efforts are underway here and the vessel, which was built at Philadelphia, came off her perch with only $1,200 damage to her hull.

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City Of Seattle (steamer)

The side-wheel ferry steamer City of Seattle, built at Portland in 1888, and the first vehicle ferry to operate on Puget Sound, was sold by the Oregon & Washington Ferry & Navigation Co. to the Benicia & Martinez Ferry Co. and was towed to California by the steam schooner William Chatham. The Oregon & Washington Ferry & Navigation Co., Capt. Dana Brown, manager, was the subsidiary of the West Seattle Land & Improvement Co., which had operated the ferry service primarily to carry prospective customers across Elliott Bay to view property which the company had for sale there. As the land was bought up and the extension of the street railway system made the ferry operation less attractive, the company suspended service for some months in 1913, arousing a great outcry from the citizens of West Seattle. Service was resumed in mid-June with the ferry West Seattle only, and the route was then taken over and operated (at a continuing loss) by the Port of Seattle. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy

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City Of Sellwood (steamer)

The Sellwood Real Estate Company launched the City of Sellwood at Portland. She was a very fast propeller seventy-two feet long, sixteen feet beam, and five feet hold, with a pair of ten by twelve inch engines, and threw a bigger swell than an ocean steamship. She ran between Portland and Sellwood in charge of Capt. Charles Yarneberg, who was succeeded in 1886 by Capt. J. N. Fisher. In 1889 the steamer was purchased by John A. Devlin, who renamed her the City of Astoria, and Captain Babbidge operated her between Westport and Astoria. She was afterward sold to Shoalwater Bay parties and is still running out of South Bend. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1883, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 308.

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City Of Shelton (steamer)

City of Shelton, 190 tons, 99.8 x 20.5 x 6, with 13 x 60 non- condensing engines, was built at Shelton in 1895, replacing the Willie on the Shelton-Olympia route. For some time after the arrival of S. G. Simpson she was used as a spare boat, and in 1912 she was sold to the American Tug Boat Co., of Everett, but was not used, being laid up in Dead Water Slough on the Snohomish River, where she went to pieces about 1930. Willie, the pioneer boat on the route was built in 1883 at Seattle for Capt. W. H. Ellis, intended for the Nooksack River trade and named after his son. She was purchased by the S. Willey Steam Navigation Co. for the Shelton-Olympia run, remaining for two years as spare boat following the arrival of the City of Shelton, and was then transferred to the Fraser River in 1897. On her meager hull, 67 feet long with 15-foot beam, were piled two full houses, topped by a pilot house on the boat deck. She was also noted for her enormous whistle and constant list to port. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events o

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City Of Shelton (sternwheeler)

Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 205. Archie Binns, Sea in the Forest, p. 205.

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City Of Sitka (schooner)

The small two -masted schooner City of Sitka, bound for Wrangell from Sitka, foundered off Cape Omaney March 8 with the loss of the three men on board. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1898, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 40.

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City Of Skagway (steamer)

The old hull of the government snagboat Skagit was rerifted for merchandising purposes and towed north as the City of Skagway, being set up on the beach at Skagway with space avahable for business enterprises on six months lease, all rooms being steam heated.Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 16.

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City Of Stanwood

Built at Stanwood in 1892. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea,p. 205.

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City Of Stanwood

The City of Stanwood, owned by the Stanwood Navigation Company, burned to the water's edge at Port Susan, January 21st, while on her regular trip from the Stillaguamish River to Seattle. She had a full cargo of oats and hay, and the fire was not discovered until it had gained so much headway that it could not be extinguished. The steamer was valued at about $10,000 and was insured for $5,000. E. W. Wright. Growth of Deep-water Commerce, Great Loss of Life by Marine Disasters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961. [Wright completed his book in 1895 and the events described occurred in 1893 and 1894.]., p.420.

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City Of Stanwood (steamer)

Robert Airey constructed the handsome little steamer City of Stanwood at Stanwood, running her between there and Seattle. She was one hundred and one feet long, twenty-four feet three inches beam, and five feet three inches hold and performed excellent service until January, 1894, when she was destroyed by fire at Port Susan. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and the years covered in this chapter are 1891 and 1892., p.399.

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City Of Steilacoom (ferry Boat)

Thirty-five car ferry built by Mr. Skansie of Gig Harbor, BPC, II, p.127. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 126, 129.

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City Of Steilacoom (ferry)

The small ferry City of Steilacoom, operated between Tacoma and Fox Island by Pierce County, was re-engined with a new Caterpillar diesel. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966 p. 585.

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City Of Sydney (barkentine)

The iron six-masted barkentine City of Sydney (the former Pacific Mail Line steamship of 1875), in layup since 1924, was sold to Japanese buyers, but found to be too rotten to sail to Japan. The Star of Iceland was substituted and City of Sydney was burned for scrap in California. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929- 1930, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior, 1966.

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City Of Sydney (steamer)

The old iron steamship City of Sydney of 1875 was purchased for $18,000 by L. A. Pederson of the Bristol Bay Packing Co. She had been retired and sold for scrap six years earlier, but had not been broken up. Pederson spent $ 100,000 converting her to a six -masted barkentine, she and the E P, Sterling (ex-Everett G. Griggs, being the only vessels of this rig in the world). After a few voyages in offshore trade she joined the Alaska cannery fleet, serving Pederson's Bristol Bay cannery. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1916, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 265.

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City Of Tacoma

Built as the Batavia in the British Isles in the 1880s. Sold tothe Northern Pacific Company and placed in the silk trade running from the Orient to Tacoma. Used during the Alaska gold rush and after sold to the Russian government. Seized by the Japanese in 1905. Tacoma News Tribune. December 30, 1926.

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City Of Tacoma (ferry)

Automobile ferry service began on the Narrows route between Tacoma and Gig Harbor with the completion of the 124 foot steam ferry, the City of Tacoma. The ferry had a capacity of 35 automobiles and 300 passengers. The City of Tacoma made her maiden voyage from the Tacoma Municipal Dock late in December, 1921, carrying invited guests and then entered her assigned service from a ferry slip at Point Defiance. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1921-22, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 324-25.

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City Of Tacoma (ferryboat)

Local ferry became more curse than blessing, Peninsula Gateway May 30, 1984. Name changed from the City of Vancouver January 28, 1918, William P. Bonney, History of Pierce County. 1213-16. William P. Bonney, History of Pierce County, II, 732, 787. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 206. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 123-24.

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City Of Tacoma (sidewheeler)

Built at St. John's Oregon in 1909. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p.206.

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City Of Tacoma (steam Ferry)

The steam ferry City of Tacoma, built only three years earlier, was found to be inadequate for the Tacoma-Vashon Island-Gig Harbor traffic, although the ferry Gloria, rebuilt from the Sound steamer Florence K., was operated with her on the run by the Tacoma Ferry Co. of A. M. Hunt & Sons under lease to Pierce County. The City of Tacoma was lengthened 34 feet at the Tacoma plant of the Western Boatbuilding Co., giving her a capacity of 50 automobiles in place of her original limit of 30. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1924, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 351.

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City Of Tacoma (steam Ferry)

The steam ferry City of Tacoma, operated across the Narrows from Point Defiance, Tacoma, to Gig Harbor by the Washington Navigation Co., was re-engined at the Skansie Bros. yard in Gig Harbor, receiving two 180-horsepower diesels to replace her original steam engines. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.. p. 386.

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City Of Tacoma (tuna Clipper)

City of Tacoma tuna clipper makes final test, Tacoma News Tribune. May 17, 1965.

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City Of Tacoma (tuna Seiner)

Plans made for biggest tuna seiner, The Tacoma News Tribune. January 21, 1968.

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City Of Tacoma (tuna Seiner)

City of Tcoma tuna clipper makes final test, The Tacoma News Tribune. May 17, 1964.

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City Of Tokyo (liner)

1875-1908. In 1875 the City of Tokyo and the City of Peking became the first screw steamers with iron hulls to provide regular service between San Francisco and the Far East. Earlier in 1873 the Pacific Mail Steamship Company (PMSS) had received similar steamers for the route between Panama and San Francisco but continued to operate wooden side-wheelers with single expansion engines in the transpacific trade. PMSS added more steamers with screws and iron hulls to this route but did not completely replace the wooden side-wheelers until the early 1880s. The City of Tokyo and the City of Peking were the largest American pas senger vessels in active service (Tate 1986) in 1875. They had iron hulls and single screws, and their compound engines could attain a maximum speed of fourteen knots. They still had a full set of back-up masts to rely on sails in case of engine failure. Carrying Chinese passengers had become extremely profitable for PMSS, and each ship had space for 1,500 Chinese in steerage class and acco

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City Of Topeka (iron Steamer)

Two deck vessel with two masts. 1057 tons.198 x 35.2 x 18 feet. 54 crew and 161 passengers. 11 knots. Built in 1864 at Chester, Penn. Before 1916 operated by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. Between 1916 and 1920 assigned by the Admiral line to the narrow gauge route between Portland and San Francisco. Operated by LASSCO between 1923 and 1931. Withdrawn from service and eventually sold. Scrapped in 1933. When owned by LASSCO the vessel was named Waimea.

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City Of Topeka (steamer)

Among the well -known vessels which ended their careers by other than shipwreck was the famous old Pacific coastwise steamship City of Topeka which, as the Waimea, was sold for scrap after serving interisland routes from Honolulu. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1933, W.H. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 425.

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City Of Topeka (steamer)

The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's City of Topeka was badly holed as a result of striking a rock in Wrangell Narrows March 29, the cost of salvage and repairs being $ 20,000. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 52.

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City Of Topeka (steamer)

The City of Topeka was built at Chester, Penn., in 1884 for some Boston people, but was sold a few years afterward to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee Railroad and sent to the Coast about 1886. She is one hundred and ninety-eight feet long, thirty-five feet beam, and twelve feet hold. E. W. Wright, Finest Steamers in the Northwest Appear on Puget Sound Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and events referred to in this chapter generally took place in 1889., p.368.

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City Of Topeka (steamer)

The Steamer sank alongside her dock at Seattle on September 5, 1904 (U.S. National Archives Record Group 41:891, United States Steamboat Inspection Service Recordsl9O4:30).

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City Of Vancouver (ferry)

The side-wheel ferry City of Vancouver, laid up upon the completion of the interstate highway bridge across the Columbia at Vancouver, was purchased by Pierce County and operated by it as the City of Tacoma transporting workers to and from the shipyards. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1918, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 297.

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City Of Vancouver (ferry)

The sidewheel ferry City of Vancouver was built by the St. Johns Shipbuilding Co. at St. Johns for service across the Columbia River at Vancouver, the highway bridge not having yet been built. Of 460 tons, her dimensions were 142.2 x 34.7 x 8.5, with two 16 x 54-inch noncondensing engines working at 190 pounds pressure. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 162.

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City Of Victoria (ferryboat)

Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea,p. 206. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 197-98.

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City Of Victoria (liner)

The fine old Chesapeake Bay liner City of Victoria of 1893, following use as a barracks ship in Alaska and later layup at Scow Bay, Whidbey Island, was sold to the Victoria Salvage Co. of Everett and dismantled at Kennydale on Lake Washington. The hull ws then towed to the beach north of Edmonds, where it was burned by Arvid Franzen a veteran ship breaker. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1948, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966.. p. 557.

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City Of Victoria (steamer)

The one - time Edmonds - Victoria steamer City of Victoria was ordered sold early in the year to satisfy claims totaling $343,000. The vessel was bid in by the Bank of California, one of the principal libelant, for $ 10,000, and was resold in the fall to the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. for conversion to a floating barracks to house employees at a $3,000,000 Naval air base construction project at Sitka. The former Queen of the Chesapeake, badly deteriorated after a decade in layup, was towed to the Lake Union Drydock & Machine Works for survey by Mc Githrie & McDonald, after which she was thoroughly renovated at the Harbor Island plant of her new owners. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 473.

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City Of Vienna

See THESSALONIKI.

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City Of Washington

The "City of Wahington" was built in 1855 by Tod & MacGregor, Glasgow for the Inman Line of Liverpool. This was a 2,381 gross ton ship, length 319ft x beam 40ft, clipper stem, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. Launched on 1/8/1855, she sailed in September of that year from Liverpool to Marseilles, where she was chartered to the French government and used as a Crimean War transport. On 5/11/1856 she commenced her first Liverpool - Philadelphia voyage and after this one voyage, inaugurated Inman Line's Liverpool - New York service, leaving Liverpool on 31/12/1856. In November 1864 she was reconditioned and fitted with new boilers after having completed 63 N.Atlantic round voyages. In 1869 she was rebuilt to a length of 358ft and 2,870 tons and on 5/6/1869 commenced her first voyage after alterations from Liverpool to Queenstown (Cobh), Halifax and New York. She was wrecked near Cape Sable on 7/7/1873 due to a defective compass, with no loss of life. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.239] -

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Clan Mcdonald (freighter)

The other, the Clan McDonald, is a freighter ninety-five feet long, twenty-four feet seven inches beam, and five feet five inches hold, and is now owned by Lilly, Bogardus & Co. of Seattle. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and the years covered in this chapter are 1891 and 1892., p.389.

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Clara Foss (tug)

New tugs added to the Northwest towing fleets included the Clara and Claudia Foss, 80 x 25-foot twin-screw tugs of 1,700 horsepower similar to the earlier Catherine Foss, by Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland for the Alaska service of Foss-Alaska Line, which in 1971 extended its route from southeastern Alaska to Bethel, St. Michael, Nome, Kotzebue and the Bristol Bay cannery ports. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1971, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.97.

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Clara Foss (tugboat)

The CLARA FOSS, named for Clara Berg Wright, niece of Thea Foss, was an updated version of the CLAUDIA and CATHERINE, the first two C -class tugs. She was built by the Albina Shipyard in Portland to handle container-barges for the Foss Alaska Line run to Southeastern Alaska, but eventually, as the barges increased in size, she lost out to the big ocean class tugs. She is eighty feet in length with a twenty-five foot beam. Michael Skalley, The Clara Foss, Foss, ninety years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 281.

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Clara Foss (tugboat)

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Clatawa (ferry)

Clatawa and the Port Gamble-Port Ludlow ferry route, sold by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. to Mrs. Agaton (Bertie) Olson, who formerly operated on Deception Pass. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.448.

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Clatawa (ferry)

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Clatawa (ferry)

The recently converted Sound ferry Clatawa was sold by the Washington Route to the Sound Ferry Lines for operation from Edmonds. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1925, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle:Superior,1966 p. 365.

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Clatsop Chief (steamer)

The Clatsop Chief, a small sternwheeler, with a scow in tow, was cut in two by the steamship Oregon near Willow bar on the Columbia, February 28, 1881, and Henry Aminous, captain of the scow, Andrew Ray, fireman, and John Sonney, deckhand on the steamer, were drowned. The Chief was in charge of Capt. W. E. Mitchell and Engineer W. S. Holmes, the latter having a miraculous escape. There were no side doors from the engine-room, and the steamer sank immediately, so that he was obliged to feel his way along the steam pipe under water until he reached the gangway. The steamer was afterward raised and lengthened. E. W. Wright, Marine Business of 1881, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest [Written in 1895], p. 290.

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Clatsop Chief (steamer)

The Clatsop Chief, a small sternwheeler, was built at Skipanon, Oregon, below Astoria, in 1875, to run between Astoria and Clatsop Landing, and, as she was not adapted to the trade, was sold to Portland parties, Capt. F. B. Jones of that city operating her for many years. She came prominently before the public in 1881 as the victim of a collision in which she was cut in two by the steamship Oregon. Captain Jones used her exclusively as a towboat, thus earning the money with which he built other more pretentious steamers. She was fifty-eight feet long and thirteen feet beam originally, but when rebuilt was lengthened twenty-six feet. She was retired from service in 1889. E. W. Wright, Loss of the 'Pacific,' New Transportation Companies on the Willamette and Columbia, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.233.

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Clatsop Chief (sternwheeler)

February 28, 1881, Sternwheeler built at Skipanon in 1875. The steamer Oregon (which seemed to resent the presence of other ships on the river) rammed and cut the Clatsop Chief in half at the Willow bar, sending the vessel and the ship she towed immediately to the bottom. Four drowned. Engineer W. S. Holmes went down with his ship, but felt his way along the engine room steampipes to the gangway, then along the earlings to a door and managed to come to the surface. W. E. Mitchell captained the ship at the time of the accident. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana, Oregon Shipwrecks.1984, p.203-208

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Claudia (fish Boat)

The British Columbia fish boat Claudia of Vancouver was sunk late in April in collision with the Alaska Steamship Co. motorship Ring Splice 150 miles north of Ketchikan. The three-man crew of the fishing craft were removed to the freighter before their vessel went down in deep water. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966.. p. 590-91.

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Claudia Foss (towing Vessel)

Foss Launch & Tug Co. continued its fleet replacement program with several new towing vessels entering service. The Martinolich Shipyard in Tacoma completed two 80-foot vessels, Claudia Foss and Martha Foss. Claudia was fitted with twin screws driven by Caterpillar engines of 1,700 total horsepower, while Martha is a single-screw tug fitted with a 1,425-horsepower Caterpillar and 90-inch diameter Kort nozzle. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.41.

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Claudia Foss (tug Boat)

New tug launched for Foss, Tacoma News Tribune. February 25, 1968.

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Claudia Foss (tug)

New tug launched for Foss, The Tacoma News Tribune. February 25, 1968. (Keel laid for 80 foot towboat at Martinolich on December 1, 1967.).

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Claudia Foss (tugboat)

The CLAUDIA FOSS named for a daughter-in-law of Sidney and Barbara Foss Campbell, was the first C-class tug built by the Albina Shipyard in Portland for Foss. The CLAUDIA and later the CLARA, were built to the design and plans of the time-tested CATHERINE FOSS. The three boats were intended for medium coastwise towing and general towing in Puget Sound. The tug was completed in 1968 and is 84 feet long with a 25 foot beam. Her major service is on Puget Sound having made some trips to both California and Alaska. Michael Skalley, The Claudia Foss Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 263.

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Clifford J. Rogers (container Ship)

The first vessel in the world designed and built as a container ship, the former White Pass & Yukon motor vessel Clifford J. Rogers of 1955, having been replaced by the larger Frank H. Brown and sold to Greek owners as the Drosia, sank on December 13 in the notorious Bermuda Triangle with the loss of eight lives. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.202.

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Clifton (1)

See ATALANTA (2).

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Clifton (2)

See HERTHA.

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Clipper (freighter)

The 75-foot diesel freighter Clipper of 180 horsepower was built at Tacoma for operation at Ketebikan by John Smeland, and the 68 -foot diesel freighter Doric of 135 horsepower at Seattle for 0. B. Hanney, also of Ketchikan. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 385.

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Coho (ferry Boat)

Owned by the Black Ball Transportation Company. Generally operated between Port Angeles and Victoria. M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legend on Puget Sound., p. 307-09.

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Coho (ferry)

On September 12 the Black Ball Transport ferry Coho suffered a similar mishap while approaching her Port Angeles terminal on a crossing from Victoria. The big motor vessel crashed into the Angeles Gravel & Supply pier, toppling two small fish processing buildings and two motor vehicles into the water. There were no injuries and, although about $100,000 in damages were inflicted on shoreside installations, the Coho continued in service virtually unscathed. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.53.

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Colabee (freighter)

Colabee, 8,800-ton steel freighter built for the Shipping Board in 1920 as the Pagasset, purchased by Oliver J. Olson & Co. from N. Gravem & Sons, East Coast shipbrokers. This vessel unusually large for the Olson coastwise fleet, was renamed Betsy Olson and placed in service with the George Olson and Mary Olson carrying salt north to the Hooker Electrochemical plant and Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co. at Tacoma, returning south with lumber cargoes. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 575.

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Cold Harbor (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 95.

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Coldbrook (freighter)

The veteran freighter COLDBROOK grounded on Middleton Island, Alaska, June 16, 1942 while loaded with military supplies. The scene of the wreck was about 75 miles south of Cordova, Alaska. The Hog Island type freighter, garbed in wartime colors, was built in 1919 and was of 5,104 tons. She became a total loss.

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Colfax

Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 136, 145-46, 153, 165, 185.

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Colfax (steamer)

At Seabeck, on Puget Sound, the steamer Colfax, a towboat, was launched and was about the only addition to the steam fleet on the inland sea in 1865. She was a sidewheeler, with machinery from the old steamer Caledonia, owned by the Washington Mill Company, and was registered at Port Angeles, December 15th, with Marshall Blinn, master, although Capt. John T. Connick took command of her soon afterward and ran her for several years. The dimensions of the Colfax were: length, one hundred and twenty-one feet; beam, eighteen feet seven inches; depth of hold, six feet eight inches. E. W. Wright, The 'Brother Jonathan' and Other Notable Wrecks, Steamboating on Interior Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.140.

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College Widow (freight Boat)

The College Widow, a 30-ton passenger and freight boat, 60 feet in length, was built by Hinton Electric Co. at Victoria for the Victoria Gulf Islands service of Holland & Lamphere. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 173.

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Collingsworth (freighter)

The Hog Island freighter Collingsworth, also operated for the government by American Mail, was torpedoed January 9 with eight killed. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 519.

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Collingwood (hms Flagship)

Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 49, 69, 75, 75, 80, 81, 96. Friendly visit to the Columbia, Charles H. Carey. General History of Oregon. 1971., II, p. 454.

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Columbia (ferry)

The year's most spectacular mishap was probably that of the luxurious new $20 million Alaska ferry Columbia, which struck the West Francis Rock as she was northbound through the narrow Peril Strait just north of Sitka. The rock ripped open about 100 feet along the starboard hull of the 418-foot vessel, which was carrying about 300 passengers and 58 vehicles through choppy water and high winds in mid-October. It was reported that the tidal currents were even worse than usual in the already restricted and dangerous passage. Following the collision the Columbia was taken into a nearby harbor, where the damage was assessed and the determination made to proceed to Sitka, where passengers and vehicles were picked up by the smaller ferry LeConte. The Columbia then returned to Seattle under her own power for drydocking and repairs at the Lockheed yard where she was built. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.166.

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Columbia (ferry)

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Columbia (ferryliner)

A new flagship for the Alaska Marine Highway System, the 418-foot, $20 million Columbia, was launched by Lockheed at Seattle early in May and was ready for service a year later, replacing the foreign-built Wickersham, which had been operating on a temporary waiver of the Jones Act. Classed by the Coast Guard as a seagoing vessel rather than a ferry, the Columbia resembles a luxury cruise liner, described as follows by Seattle Times maritime editor Glen Carter prior to her maiden voyage from Seattle: You get the idea Alaska's newest passenger vessel, the Columbia, is special when you spot what looks like a golf practice green on her afterdeck. Or maybe a croquet lawn. It's a 50-foot-square green carpet. Nobody knows for sure what it's for. Passengers probably will lounge there in chairs. She's due in Juneau from Seattle today on her first run. The $20 million Lockheed-built Columbia is a dazzler inside and out. She is more than a ferry. You get the feeling you're in a new hotel. The parking garage is on two de

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Columbia (frigate)

1,726 tons, 175' x 45' x 14'. Built at Washington Navy Yard, 1836; burned at Norfolk, 1861; raised and sold, 1867. Armament: 4 8 shell guns, 25 32-pdrs., 22 42-pdrs. Vincent Ponko, Jr. Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974.. p. 14.

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Columbia (full Rigged Vessel)

The ship Columbia was built in 1773 by James Briggs, at Hobart's Landing, on North River. She was a full-rigged ship of 212 tons burden, two decks, and mounted ten guns. Capt. John Kendrick was an experienced officer, about forty-five years of age when he took command of the Columbia. He had done considerable privateering during the Revolution, and after the war had been in charge of several merchant vessels. After his second trip from this coast he was trading between the Sandwich Islands and Boston, and was accidentally killed at Hawaii about 1800. - Columbia's crew: First mate, Simon Woodruff; second mate, Joseph Ingraham; third mate, Robert Haswell; boatswain, John B. Cordis; clerk, Riebard S. liowe; surgeon, Dr. Roberts; astronomer, J. Nutting; mate on the sloop, Davis Coolidge. E. W. Wright, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, 1961., p. 5.

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Columbia (full Rigged Vessel)

The Columbia was a full-rigged ship of 212 tons burden, with two decks and ten guns. She was out of Boston, and her master was Cap- tain Robert Gray. He ascended the river for some fifteen miles and spent several days taking on fresh water and trading with the Indians who swarmed about his ship in canoes. On May 19, he dropped down to the mouth of the river, went ashore, raised the American flag, planted some coins under a large pine tree and formally took possession in the name of the United States. He named the river Columbia after his ship. Harry Sinclair Drago. The Steamboaters. New York: Brinhall, 1967, p. 176.

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Columbia Chief (barge)

The first, the Columbia Chief, launched at Steffen's yard in November, carried on her initial trip 767 tons of wheat to Astoria. E. W. Wright, Willamette River Locks Completed, Charter Rates of the Lumber Fleet, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.214.

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Columbia Eagle (freighter)

A bizarre drama involving mutiny and hijacking took place aboard the Columbia Steamship Company's Victory ship Columbia Eagle in March. Two long-haired and scruffy crew members, Albin Glatskowsky, 20, and Clyde McKay, 23, took over the bridge about 100 miles off the Cambodian coast, held Capt. Donald A. Swan at gunpoint and forced more than half the crew to take to the lifeboats. The Portland-based freighter, carrying munitions to Thailand, was then ordered into Cambodian waters and anchored near the port of Sihanoukville. The two hijackers were granted political asylum in Cambodia. The vessel was released by Cambodian authorities after a delay of several days, which entailed a loss of about $125,000 to her owners. A Federal grand jury subsequently issued indictments in absentia against the two young men, charging more than 20 counts of mutiny on the high seas, assault with deadly weapons, transporting kidnapped persons in foreign commerce and wilfull neglect of duties. If the mutineers returned to United Sta

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Columbia River Lightship Number Fifty

Built by Union Iron Works of San Francisco. Placed in service off the mouth of the Columbia in 1892. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 401. Looking back, Marine Digest. September 23, 1989, p. 30. Vessel carried ashore inside McKenzie Head on the north entrance to the Columbia River in November of 1899. Later refloated. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 159. Jim Gibbs, Sentinels of the North Pacific., 167-174, 184.

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Columbus California (cargo Vessel)

Columbus California calls at Tacoma; one ofthe two Columbus line vessels carrying freight between Tacoma and Australia\New Zealand, Marine Digest. August 2, 1986, p. 8.

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Colwell (freighter)

The small propeller freighter Colwell, 57 feet in length, was built at Ilwaco and was operated for some time by Albert Burchan at St. Helens. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 20.

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Comanche (freighter)

The steel freight steamer Comanche of 1913 was equipped with passenger accommodations, replacing the Utopia of the Strait of Juan de Fuca route. Efforts were also made to operate her as an automobile ferry on the Port AngelesVictoria crossing during the summer season, assisting the Sol Duc, but the attempt was not successful. It was necessary to load the automobiles in the lower deck freight spaces by means of the Barlow marine elevator with which the Comanche was equipped. This device worked excellently in loading freight, but it was found that it took 45 minutes to load a single automobile by this method. Neither the patrons of the makeshift ferry or her master, Capt. Oliver Niewenhuese, were happy with the experiment. Some disagreement ensued between Joshua Green and Charles Peabody as to which vessel of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. fleet should be converted to a bona fide ferry to replace the Sol Duc and Comanche, Capt. Green recommending the Waialeale and Mr. Peabody the Sioux. After numerous trial tri

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Comfort (hospital Ship)

The 430-foot former Navy hospital ship Comfort was rebuilt at the Todd Dry Docks in Seattle as a deluxe cruise liner for the New York-Florida-Cuba service of the Ward Line. The vessel was built originally in 1906 for this line as the Havana by the Cramp yard and received her former name upon completion of the reconstruction. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 386.

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Commodore (fishing Trawler)

The Commodore, another Marco Milestone, vessel started in 1982 as an anchovy purse seiner, finished as a Bering Sea dragger in 1987, National Fisherman. (September, 1987), p. 37-38. Marco of Seattle recently christened new trawler with unique features, Marine Digest. (June 20, 1987), p. 30-31.

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Concordia (ferry)

The small freight and passenger vessel Concordia was built at Tacoma, entering service in 1931 to replace the steamer Vashona on the Tacoma - Quartermaster Harbor route of the Vashon Navigation Co. Of 77 tons, slightly less than 65 feet in length, she was fitted with a 90-horsepower diesel engine. The Vashona, now too large for the dwindling passenger traffic on this historic route, passed to the Anderson Steamboat Co. for excursion service and is still afloat as the Columbia Queen. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1931, The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 411.

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Concordia (ferry)

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Condor (hms Sloop Of War)

On December 2 the British sloop of war Condor departed Esquimalt for Honolulu. Commanded by Captain C. Slater, she carried a complement of 130 officers and ratings, although Victoria sources claimed she had embarked an additional 10 men as supernumeraries just prior to sailing. The Condor was a 180-foot iron propeller steamer of 980 tons built at Sheerness in 1898. Her primary armament consisted of 10 four-inch rapid-fire guns and four three pounders. In addition to her triple-expansion engine, which drove her at a 13-knot speed, she was fitted with auxiliary sails. A full gale struck the Northwest soon after her sailing and wreckage of the Condor was later found on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. The exact cause of the tragedy along with the loss of the collier Matteawan ...remains among the many sea mysteries of the North Pacific. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1901. W. H. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 72.

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Condor (sloop Of War)

British war ship (sloop of war) vanished off Cape Flattery, December 2, 1901 enroute to Honolulu from Esquimalt claiming every man aboard, the death toll ranging from 104 to 140, the Admiralty setting it at 110.

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Condor, Hms (frigate)

British Naval frigate vanished with all hands en route to Honolulu from Esquimalt, December 2, 1901. She is believed a victim of a gale off Cape Flattery the night of December 2. One report claims she carried 140 victims to a watery grave, another reports only 104. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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Confidence

CONFIDENCE, of London, two hundred tons, John Gibson, Master. She sailed from Southampton the last of April <1638>, 'by vertue of the Lord Treasurers warrant of the 11th of April, 1638.' [Footnote: Colonial Papers, America and West Indies, v, 375.]

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Confidence

Property of John Stevens, Hazard Stevens, Life of General Isaac I. Stevens, I, p. 2.

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Confidence (cutter)

The new U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Confidence of 5,000 shaft horsepower, arrived from the Coast Guard's Curtis Bay, Maryland yard during the summer to take station at Kodiak. The 210-foot vessel, with streamlined superstructure and without a funnel, is powered by two 5,000-horsepower gas turbines for high speed operation and two 1,500-horsepower diesels for normal cruising. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXII.

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Congress (u.s. Frigate)

Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., I, p. 583. Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 26, 80.

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Constance (hms Frigate)

The third annual frigate to go north to Vancouver's Island was H.M.S. Constance under Captain G. W. C. Courtenay, sent by Rear Admiral Phipps Hornby to investigate any cases of aggression reported by the Hudson's Bay Company officers. Captain Courtenay was the first Captain to take his ship into Esquimalt harbour and drop anchor in the forest-clad basin, with nothing to mark the entrance from seaward. Frederick Victor Longstaff, Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defenses. Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd. 1942., p.11.

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Constance Chandler (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 164.

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Constellation (u.s. Aircraft Carrier)

Connie due in for Bremerton overhaul, The Tacoma News Tribune. November 18, 1982. The Constellation a glacier of a ship, Marine Digest. October 18, 1986, p. 11+

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Constitution (frigate)

2,200 tons, 175' x 43' x 14'. Built in Boston, 1797; still on Navy List. Armament: 44 guns.Vincent Ponko, Jr. Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974., p. 162.

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Constitution (u.s. Frigate)

Sailed with the Tonquin. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, I, p. 78. Edgar I Stewart, Washington, Northwest Frontier., I, p. 168. All Tacoma to welcome noted ship, Tacoma Daily Ledger. June 15, 1933, p. A-1. Old Ironsides visits Tacoma, Tacoma News Tribune. June 14,15,16,17,19,20,22, 1933. (All articles on page 1 of each newspaper. Local firm replaces Constitutions mast, Marine Digest. March 29, 1986, p. 6. McFarland Cascade fashioned 58 foot mast to replace the one damaged when Hurricane Gloria blew into Boston Harbor. (il). M.S.Kline and G.A. Bayless. Ferryboats. a legen on Puget Sound., p. 53.

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Conway (frigate)

In 1822, H.M. frigate Conway under Captain Basil Hall anchored at San Blas on March 28th. Captain Hall tells of the state of transition in New Spain from under the Crown of Spain to that of a new republic, for the Mexican Federal Republic was proclaimed on October 4th, 1823. Frederick Victor Longstaff, Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defenses. Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd. 1942., p.9.

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Coquina (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 164.

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Corozal (fish Packer)

Length 72 ft. Built 1929, (fish packer) beam 15 feet. Harbour Boat Builders, Vancouver. Reg. No. 156609 Engine: One 300-HP 6-cylinder diesel. Owner: General Navigation Co. of Canada, 1048 Hamilton St., Vancouver, 1929. Captain Malcolm K Savage. Operated on East Coast out of Belize, British Honduras. Fraser Miles. Slow boat on Rum Row. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing Company, 1992.

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Corrales (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 84-85, 164.

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County Of Linlithgow

Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 164.

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County Of Linlithgow

Four master on way to load grain. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 173. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers.. Alternate name LINLITHGOWSHIRE.

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Courtney Ford (brig)

The C. A. Hooper brig Courtney Ford, commanded by Capt. 0. B. (All Hands and Feet) Lindholm, was the first vessel to reach St. Michael, arriving coated with ice from trucks to waterline, on June 14, 1899, Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 47.

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Courtney Ford (brigantine)

The Courtney Ford, a brigantine of 401 tons, was built at Benicia in 1883 by Capt. Turner for J. J. McKinnon, San Francisco. She was afloat in 1900. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. March 22, 1941, p.2 Mr. Lyman later reported that the Courtney Ford was wrecked at Glen Island, Alaska, September 7, 1902.

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Courtney Ford (brigantine)

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Courtney Ford (schooner)

The Courtney Ford (originally a skysail brig, but rerigged late in 1901 as a three -masted schooner) was wrecked September 7, 1902 on Glen Island, Izembek Bay, her hull being still fairly intact after more than 60 years on the beach. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1902, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 84.

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Craig Foss (1) (tugboat)

The Craig Foss was built as the Major Henry J. Conners in New Orleans by the Lester Alexander Company in 1943 for the United States Army for work along the Gulf Coast. Foss purchased the tug in September 1955 and she began service in February 1956 in Puget Sound and Alaska. The Craig Foss was sunk November 7, 1965 in Alaska's Cook inlet. Michael Skalley, The Craig Foss (1) , Foss, ninety years of towboating, Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 187.

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Craig Foss (tug)

Craig Foss, 90 - foot tug of 600 - horsepower (built at New Orleans in 1942 as the U. S. Army Major Henry James Connor. Captain Everett Gudgel capsized and sank in Cook Inlet in November while working on a pipeline from offshore drilling platforms. The crew was removed by other boats working in the vicinity. Gordon Newell. The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 690-91.

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Craig Foss (tug)

By early June, the Olympia Reserve Fleet, which had once harbored nearly 200 mothballed merchant vessels, was down to 11 ships and was in the process of being phased out completely. On June 1 the tug Craig Foss made towing history when she removed three of the remaining vessels, the Knot-type motor vessels Anchor Hitch, Clove Hitch and Sailor's Splice, and delivered them to Seattle in a single triple-tow for delivery to Taiwan shipbreakers by a Japanese tug. The next two weeks saw a steady parade of ghostly gray ships plodding toward shipbreakers'yards at the ends of towlines. On June 12 the Japanese seagoing tug Freesia picked up two of the remaining four, the West Linn Victory and Clouis Victory, to be towed directly to Taiwan. Shortly thereafter the Shelley Foss removed the last two ships, Waltham Victory and Kingston Victory, and for the first time in 26 years Budd Inlet was empty of anchored ships. They had served their country well...some in four wars...but their day had passed. Gordon Newell, Maritime

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Craig Foss (tugboat)

Four thousand horsepower single screw with variable pitch propeller ocean going tug, Marine Digest. LVII (October 21, 1978). Tug Craig Foss nearly sinks in storm off Coos Bay March 9, 1986, Marine Digest. (March 15, 1986), p. 3.

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Craig Foss. (2) (tugboat)

The CRAIG, number LT-648, built for the Water Division of the Army Transportation Corps during World War II at Tamp Marine Corporation yards at Tampa, Florida, began her Army career towing on the Atlantic Coast and then shifted to the Pacific until laid up about 1950 in the California reserve fleet. She was declared surplus in March 1960 and put up for sale in July 1965. Foss purchased her as they had been on the lookout for a sizable tug to put on the Honolulu lumber run and the LT-648 appeared to be the answer. She was towed to Seattle and kept in mothballs until 1966 when repowering and rebuilding was begun. The tug is used along the Northwest Coast of North America including Alaska. After periods of intense work and lay-ups the Craig Foss was still in service when Mr. Skalley wrote his book in 1981. Michael Skalley, The Craig Foss (2) , Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 237.

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Crefeld (1)

I have details of a "Crefeld", belonging to North German Lloyd, but no confirmation that it sailed to Buenos Aires. I know that NGL had a previous ship with this name on the S.America service up until 1914 but she was handed to Spain after the Great War and renamed. -

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Crefeld (2)

The steamship CREFELD (II) was built by the Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft (ship #360) for Norddeutscher Lloyd, and launched on 23 December 1921. 9,573 tons; 150,87 x 18,51 meters (length x breadth); 1 funnel, 4 masts; screw propulsion (triple-expansion engines), service speed 12.5 knots; passenger accommodation: 350 in middle class, 364 in 3rd class (cabins), 370 in dormitory deck; crew of 164 (192 in 1926). Built on prewar freighter-designed hulls, and intended for the North American emigrant service, but diverted to the South America service when the United States introduced immigration quotas. June 1922, maiden voyage, Bremen-South America. June 1928-24 May 1930, reopened Bremen-Montreal service (9 roundtrip voyages); 35 passengers in 1st class, 212 in 3rd class. June 1930, first of two roundtrip voyages, Bremen-Halifax-Galveston. 1934, rebuilt as a freighter by Seebeck Werft; 8,045 tons, crew of 57. 26 August 1939, at Massawa, Eritrea. 4 April 1941, scuttled, but failed to block the harbor. 4 June 1943, raised to clear the harbor [Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails (2 vols.; Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994-c1995), vol. 2, p. 24; Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 573]. -

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Crosline (ferry)

The motor ferry Crosline of 1925 was sold by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. and was placed under Canadian registry to augment the North Vancouver ferry service, carrying thousands of workers across the inlet to and from the booming Burrard Dry Dock. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1942, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 509.

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Crosline (ferry)

Crosline, diesel ferry, sold to the Canadian government in 1942 for wartime service in British Columbia, repurchased by the Washington State Highway Department for use on the Tacoma Narrows crossing, was transferred back to American registry after passage of a special act of Congress, thus resolving a difficulty which had precipitated something of a political crisis in the state. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 545.

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Crosline (ferry)

The most publicized if not the most important transfer of a vessel in 1948 was that of the wooden motor ferry Crosline which had been in service in British Columbia waters and was purchased for a return to Puget Sound operation by the Washington State Highway Department. With the Sound ferry situation already an object of political controversy, it was inevitable that any such transaction would be closely scrutinized. A great furor was generated when it was dis- covered belatedly that a special act of Congress would be required to transfer the vessel back to American registry before she could be used between American ports. This was eventually accomplished and the Crosline was turned over the following year for use by the Vashon Ferry District. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1948, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 554.

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Crosline (ferry)

Two new diesel ferries for Puget Sound operation were launched within a few days of each other in June, the 65 -car Crosline being built by the Marine Construction Co., Seattle, for the Crosby Direct Line, and the Kitsap by the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, for the Mtsap County Transportation Co. The Crosline, designed by L. H. Coolidge for the Alki Point-Manchester route, was 150 feet in overall length with a 48-foot beam and was powered by a 750-horsepower Sumner heavy oil engine. The Kitsap was 158.9 x 48.1 feet and was powered with a 600-horsepower Washington-Estep full diesel. She was designed by Capt. John L. Anderson, who succeeded Lyman Hinkley as president of the Kitsap County Line, for service on the Fauntleroy - Vashon - Harper route. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1925, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 367.

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Crosline (ferry)

The Odin later towed the 153-foot wooden ferry Crosline to Coos Bay, the vessel having been sold by Washington State Ferries to the Port of Coos Bay for use as a floating gift shop and restaurant at its new marine park. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.191.

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Crown City (ferry)

The 228 x 46-foot open-deck ferry Crown City, built in 1954 for the San Diego-Coronado run and replaced by the new San Diego bridge, was purchased by Washington State Ferries and transferred to Puget Sound for operation on the Mukiteo-Columbia Beach route as the Kulshan. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.67.

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Crown City (freighter)

The World War I Shipping Board freighter Crown City, being operated by the American Mail Line in Army transportation service, on September 1 struck an uncharted rock near Sledge Island, Nome. The vessel was loaded with foodstuffs, mobile machinery, quonset huts, clothing, coal, ore, gasoline, airplane parts and lumber (on deck). Attempts to salvage the cargo by lighter were unsuccessful, due to adverse weather conditions. During the winter the ice pack did further hull damage, flooding most of the holds. The water in the holds then froze solidly. The valuable cargo would doubtless have been entirely lost had it not been for a most noteworthy salvage project undertaken by Father Tom Cunningham, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks whose knowledge of sea and ice conditions in the Nome area was remarkable. After a long delay in receiving the approval of military authorities, who were unwilling to concede that a priest might also be a qualified marine salvage master, he was assigned a work party of soldi

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Crown Of England (steamer)

The British steamship Crown of England, which had been in the coal trade out of Nanaimo for the past year, was wrecked on Santa Rosa Island in November, 1894. She was en route from San Diego to Nanaimo in ballast, went on the rocks during a dense fog, striking at two o'clock in the morning, and was soon battered to pieces by the sea. All hands reached the island in safety, and John Poole, first officer, and five of the crew went to Santa Monica and telegraphed for assistance. The tug Fearless, Capt. Dan H. Haskell, was sent to the scene, and the wreck was afterward purchased by San Francisco parties, who succeeded in saving a large portion of the machinery. The Crown of England was a 1,600-ton iron steamship built in 1890, and was well known in the north as the first steamer chartered by Samuel Samuels & Co. to run between the Orient and Seattle. Not making a success of this trade, she was chartered by John Rosenfeld & Co. of San Francisco and for the past year had been in the coal traffic. At the time of the

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Crusader (fishboat)

Sturdy ship and Tacoma experts who built her, The Tacoma Times. February 19, 1938.

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Crusader (fishing Boat)

Sturdy ship and Tacoma experts who built her, Tacoma Times.February 19, 1938.

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Cy Peck (ferry)

The Canadian motor ferry Cy Peck (ex-Daily), providing automobue and passenger service between Swartz Bay and Saltspring Island, had her 21 - year - old Fairbanks - Morse diesel replaced by a new eight-cylinder engine of the same make giving her a 10 1/2 knot service speed on the 35 -minute crossing. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 585.

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Cynthia Olson (freighter)

June 9, 1952 Lumber freighter, 3117 tons, 310', built at Fiensberg, Germany in 1935. The ship, working for Oliver Olson & Co., bumped so heavilv upon the Coquille River bar that she sprung her plates and eighty per cent required replacement. The ship was rescued from total loss by the efforts of the Salvage Chief, one of the most famous salvage vessels in the world. Don Marhsall, Ship Disasters, Blacklock Point to Tenmile Creek. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1984, p.42-46

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Cynthia Olson (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 86, 164.

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Daisy (fishing Vessel)

63-foot fishing vessel Daisy struck the north jetty at Coos Bay while attempting to cross the bar in heavy weather in February. The owner-skipper, J. N. Rock of Newport, and J. L. Heath were able to jump to the jetty and were rescued, but the third crew member, Glenn B. Long, was drowned. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.71.

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Daisy Freeman (steam Schooner)

October 11, 1912 Steam schooner. Struck Columbia bar and salvaged

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Dale M.hunt (fireboat)

A new fireboat for Ketchikan, the 42 - foot Dale M. Hunt with 100 - horsepower Hall - Scoff gasoline engine, was placed in service at that Alaska port in 1936. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 446.

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Dale M.hunt (fireboat)

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Danish Prince (of 1894)

See PRINCE LINE FREIGHTERS

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Dart (fishing Vessel)

The 60-foot fishing vessel Dart, built at Caledonia, Washington in 1911, struck rocks near Buoy 7 on Coos Bay on October 17, 1974. Although the Coast Guard pulled her off, it was found that she had broken her back and she was subsequently scrapped. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.168.

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David Campbell (fireboat)

A steam fireboat of steel construction, the David Campbell, was built at Portland for the fire department of that city. Of 242 tons, 1 17.5 feet in length, with machinery developing 1,200 horsepower, the Campbell remained in service until 1928. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p224.

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David Foss (1) (tugboat)

The DAVID FOSS named after a great grandson of Theodore, was fifth in the series of sister-tugs, commonly known as D boats. This tug was built at the Albina Shipyard in Portland, Oregon in 1967. The versatile D's performed equally well towing logs on Puget Sound, petroleum barges in Southeastern Alaska, or assisting in offshore oil support work. The DAVID's active duty began on June I 9th when she headed for Cook Inlet to work as a utility tug. She worked out of Anchorage until the freeze-up in October dictated her return to Seattle. After several years service in Alaska the David Foss sank on January 11, 1975 in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Michael Skalley, The David Foss (1) Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 256-57.

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David Foss (tug)

The 1,200-horsepower tug David Foss began taking on water in the stern as she tended an oil rig about four miles off Kasilof in ice covered Cook Inlet in early January and sank in about 60 feet of water. The six men aboard escaped in a liferaft without injury and were later air-lifted to Anchorage. The three-year-old $1 million tug was not salvaged. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.198.

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David Foss (tugboat)

First of a new class of Foss Tugs, The Marine Digest. November 1, 1980. p. 11-12. Super D Class vessel. Foss ad with David Foss against a Seattle skyline. Marine Digest. January 31, 1981. p. 19. Marks first year of service, Marine Digest. October 3, 1981, p. 7. (il). Two tugs, the Oregon and the David Foss join the Grays Harbor towboat wars, The Marine Digest. September 28, 1985, p. 21-22.

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Dean Foss (tug)

Dean Foss, 72 feet in length and fitted with two 600-horsepower engines and twin screws, was completed by Albina Engine & Machine Works and dispatched to Alaska on her maiden voyage towing a 110 x 30-foot three-story production plant and dormitory structure to be mounted on a drill rig of Cook Inlet Drilling Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.41.

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Dean Foss (tugboat)

The DEAN FOSS named for Andrew Dean Hager, grandson of Henry Foss, was sixth in the series of D-class tugs built by the Albina Shipyard of Portland, Oregon, and designed by Foss for intermediate towing, range and horsepower. Upon arrival in Seattle from the Portland shipyard in early May 1968 and after quickly passing a second inspection, she started right out on the Seattle to North Vancouver rail-car barge run but was later transferred to work in Southeastern Alaska. Michael Skalley, The Dean Foss Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 263.

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Deborah Foss (tugboat)

The Deborah Foss was built in 1965 at the Albina Shipyard at Portland Oregon for Foss service on Puget Sound. She is 66 feet in length with a 24 foot beam. The propulsion is a Caterpiller (Twin) 1,200 horsepower engine. She had served in Southeast Alaska but is classified as a Sound tug. Michael Skalley, The Deborah Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 200.

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Decatur (sloop Of War)

The United States sloop of war, Decatur, should be mentioned here because of the fact that she went aground on Bainbridge Island during the Indian War of 1855-56; and also because of the fact that her's was the second ship-repairing work to be accomplished in Port Blakely Harbor-the harbor which was to become world renowned for its shipbuilding and ship-repairing industry. (The first ship-repairing job in this harbor was done by Vancouver's men in 1792.) Fortunately, repairs were completed and the Decatur was able to get off the reef (named Decatur Reef because of this incident) in time to save the settlers at Seattle from being massacred. Elsie F. Marriott Bainbridge through bifocals.Seattle: Gateway Printing Company, 1941, p. 183-202

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Decatur (sloop Of War)

The United States fleet attracted to the Sound by the Indian war included the revenue cutter Jeff Davis, the steamers John Hancock, Massachusetts and Active, and the sloop-of-war Decatur, the latter vessel taking the more prominent part in the battles between the Indians and the whites. The Decatur was officered as follows: J. S. Sterret, commander; T. G. Dalles, master; E. Middleton, A. K. Hughes, A. J. Drake, T. S. Phelps, lieutenants; J. J. Jones, purser. E. W. Wright, Puget Sound Steamboats, Golden Days of Fraser River Navigation, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.61.

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Deep Sea (fishboat)

Bering sea fishing opportunity becons Tacoma built boat, The Tacoma Times. April 30, 1947. Tacoma built fishing boat leads field, The Tacoma News Tribune. June 10, 1947.

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Defender (schooner)

The Defender, a four-masted schooner of 446 tons and 575 M capacity, was built by Bendixsen at Fairhaven in 1896 for George U. Hind, San Francisco. She was taken over by Hind, Rolph & Co., when that firm was organized. In February, 1920, the Defender sailed from Aberdeen, Wash., for Suva, but on April 10 got ashore on Ongea Reef in the Fijis, and could not be floated. The lumber cargo was sold for $23,500, but the wreck brought only $1050. John Lyman,Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.March 29, 1941..

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Defender (schooner)

The Defender, a four-masted schooner of 446 tons and 575 M capacity, was built by Bendixsen at Fairhaven in 1896 for George U. Hind, San Francisco. She was taken over by Hind, Rolph & Co., when that firm was organized. In February, 1920, the Defender sailed from Aber- deen, Wash., for Suva, but on April 10 got ashore on Ongea Reef in the Fijis, and could not be floated. The lumber cargo was sold for $23,500, but the wreck brought only $1050. John Lyman,Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.March 29, 1941..

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Defender (schooner)

The 446-ton four-masted schooner Defender, built by Bendixsen in 1896 and long active in the Northwest lumber trade, was also lost while on a voyage from Aberdeen with lumber, going ashore on Nukusongea Reef in the Fiji Islands while en route for Suva. The cargo was sold for $ 23,500 and the wreck for $ 1,050 as scrap. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 312.

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Defender (tug)

The 48 -ton steam tug Defender, 64 feet long, was built at Astoria, equipped with 130-horsepower compound engines and operated for a number of years by the Knappton Towing Co. of Astoria. xxx, p. 162.

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Defender (tugboat)

Built in Tacoma in 1900. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 206. Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 53, 55.

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Defiance (2) (steamer)

The 93 foot propeller steamer Defiance (2) was built by Matthew McDowell at Tacoma, replacing the Dauntless on the Seattle Tacoma West Pass route, the latter vessel being sold to Moe Brothers for Bainbridge Island service. xxxx, p. 60.

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Defiance (ferry)

New Ferry starts on Gig Harbor run today, The Tacoma Daily Ledger. April 3, 1927. p. A-10. (il). Defiance converted to seafood processor. Marine Digest. June 29, 1985, p. 21.

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Defiance (ferry)

The 165-foot wooden ferry Defiance of 1927, in service on Olympic Ferries' Port Townsend-Whidbey Island route until late in 1971, was sold to Ebb Tide Seafoods of Everett for conversion to a freezing and processing vessel for crab, fish and shrimp in the Alaska area. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1972, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.119.

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Defiance (fishboat)

Fishing boat to sail soon, The Tacoma News Tribune. July 25, 1947.

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Defiance (fishing Boat)

Fishing boat to sail soon, The Tacoma News Tribune. July 25, 1947.

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Defiance (motor Lifeboat)

The 36-foot, 40 horsepower motor lifeboat Defiance was assigned to the Bandon lifesaving station in 1912. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 207.

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Defiance (schooner)

The four-masted schooner Defiance of 1897 burned while loading copra in the Solomon Islands, Capt. Clark and the crew reaching shore safely. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1922, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 330.

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Defiance (schooner)

Peter Mathews at Hoquiam delivered the 604 -ton four masted schooner Defiance to the E. K. Wood Lumber Company. With dimensions of 179.8 x 37.7 x 13.7, this was the largest sailing vessel to be built in the Pacific Northwest that year. She was initially commanded by Capt. Blum. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 21.

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Defiance (schooner. )

Defiance, four-masted schooner of 604 tons and 725 M capacity, was built at Hoquiam, Wash., in 1897 by Mathews & Hitchings for the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. of San Francisco. While loading copra at Faisai, Solomon Islands, on January 23, 1922, the Defiance took fire and was burned to the water's edge, Capt. Clark and his crew getting ashore safely. Managing owner of the schooner at that time was given as Ernest Johnson, Portland, Ore. John Lyman,Pacific Coast-Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.March 29, 1941..

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Defiance (steamer)

Launched Airil 13, 1901. 93 foot vessel. Built by Crawford and Reid of Tacoma. Renamed Kingston in 1913. The Colorful Career of the Steamer Defiance, Marine Digest. March 16, 1985, p. 11+ (il). Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 206.

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Defiance (tug)

Two other powerful welded-steel diesel tow boats were completed at Portland, the Defiance, 133 tons, 80.6 x 23 x 7.6, with 1,200-horsepower diesels for the Tidewater Transportation Co., and the Invader, 141 tons, 85 x 24 x 7.5, also of 1,200-horsepower for the same owners. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 472.

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Defiance (tug)

The river Tug Defiance, built in 1939 by Albina Engine & Machine Works for Tidewater-Shaver Barge Lines was thoroughly modernized and renovated as the Idaho for long-distance river towing and harbor work. The 85 x 25-foot towboat is powered by twin Caterpillar diesels of 1,500 total shaft horsepower and was fitted with the now familiar raised pilot house to provide a pilot's eye level of 35 feet above the waterline. She operates on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to Lewiston for Shaver Transportation Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.188.

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Deimos (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century,p. 90.

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Delftdyk (motorship)

The Dutch motorship Delftdyk returned to Pacific Northwest waters in November, reviving the Pacific Coast European refrigerator ship service which had been pioneered jointly in 1920 by the Holland - America and Royal Mail Lines. She was operated in post -war service in this trade in conjunction with the steamship Duivendyk, formerly the Vancouver of Hamburg - American Lines. The Delftdyk was well known in the North Pacific, having been built originally for the refrigerator trade between Pacific Coast ports and Europe via the Panama Canal. In addition to a large refrigerated cargo capacity, both vessels carried passengers, the Delftdyk having accommodations for 30 and the Duivendyk for 35, all in upper deck rooms with private bath. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1946, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966.

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Delftdyke

The "Delftdyke" was a 10,220 gross ton ship, built by Wilton, Schiedam in 1929 for Holland America Line's Rotterdam - Vancouver cargo-passenger service. Her dimensions were length 509ft x beam 65ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 14.5 knots. There was accommodation for 30 cabin class passengers. On 10th May 1940 she was bombed off Flushing, and again at Peterhead in Sept.1941 which put her out of service for a year. In Jan.1950 she was damaged by a mine at the mouth of the Weser, was rebuilt with new engines, funnel, bridge and bows, and renamed "Dongedyk". She resumed service to Vancouver in 1952 and in June 1966 was sold to Toshin Trading Co, Kobe, renamed "Tung Long" for a voyage to Kaohsiung, where she was broken up. Her sister ships were "Damsterdyk" and "Dalerdyk" [Holland America Line, a 120th Anniversary Celebration in Postcards by Peter C.Kohler, published by Ship Pictorial Publications, The Cabinet, High Street, Coltishall, Norfolk ]

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Delight (freighter)

Built at Tood, Seattle. 7,500 ton freighter. DTW, September 15, 1919, p. 20.

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Delores Foss (tugboat)

The Delores Foss was built by the Albina Shipyard in Portland as the fourth of eight D class tugs designed for towing on Puget Sound and Alaska. The vessel is 66 feet long with a 24 foot beam. Her primary service has been in Southeastern Alaska and when Mr. Skalley's book was written she was still in service. Michael Skalley, The Delores Foss Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 246.

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Deneb (landing Craft)

American, converted landing craft, enroute to Alaska, was driven ashore four miles south of Ocean Park on May 15, 1950, when the main water pump failed. She was salvaged and towed to safety by Fred Devine's 3600 h.p. Salvage Chief, of Portland. The Deneb's master was John Niemi. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Deneb (landing Craft)

American converted landing craft was driven ashore four miles south of Ocean Park on May 15, 1920. Towed to safety. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 160.

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Derblay (freighter)

The Shipping Board freighter Derblay was also acquired and placed in Alaska service without change of name. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 375.

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Diamond Head (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 164.

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Diana (sloop Of War)

In 1812, Captain Ricord, commanding Russia sloop-of-war Diana, took aboard seven Japanese, six of whom were seamen recently shipwrecked in a junk on the coast of Kamchatka in the hope of exchanging them for seven Russians whom the Japanese were holding. Brooks reported the Diana was unable to land but he didn't mention why, so the ship returned to Kamchatka, reaching there on October 12. The following summer, on August 16, again in Diana, a second voyage was undertaken and a successful landing was made at Kunashie Bay on the 20th Island in the Jurilles. The two governments exchanged their men which included Russian sea captain Golovnin. (Vasilii Mikhailovich Golovnin later wrote a major book about his experiences.) Bert Webber, Wrecked Japanese Junks adrift in the North Pacific Ocean. Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1984. p. 51-52.

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Diane Foss (tugboat)

The Diane Foss was built at the Albina Shipyard in Portland, Oregon in 1966 as number three in the D class of eight tugs. The tug was delivered at Seattle on May 28, 1966 for service on Puget Sound. The ship is 66 feet in length with a 24 foot beam. The Diane Foss has performed some service in Alaska but mostly out of Seattle. Michael Skalley, The Diane Foss Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 248.

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Ditto (fishboat)

The Alaska fish boat Ditto was rammed and sunk in southeastern Alaska waters in September by an unidentified vessel said to resemble a cannery tender. The larger vessel continued at full speed as the five-man crew of the Ditto struggled in the icy waters. Two, including the boat's master, Alex Didrickson, were drowned, the remaining three being picked up by the fish boat Shamrock. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1923, H.M. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 565.

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Dixie Queen (freighter)

Dixie Queen, 60 -foot freighter of 60 horsepower was built at Bellingham in 1912; Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 206.

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Dodo (fishboat)

The Dodo, a steam fishing vessel of 10 tons, 33.5 feet in length was built at Potlatch, Washington, and still operated as a pleasure boat and one of the few remaining small steamers on Puget Sound. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1936, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 446.

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Dodo (fishboat)

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Dolly (skiff)

Walter O'Meara. The Savage Country, p. 258, 265, 267, 290.

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Dolphin (fish Packer)

The 96 -ton fish packer Dolphin 92 feet in overall length, built at Astoria in 1886 and subsequently converted to gasoline power, was purchased by the Foss Launch & lvg Co. and rebuilt as the tug Martha Foss, receiving a 240 horsepower Ingersoll-Rand dieSel3. During this year the Foss interests withdrew from the passenger launch business which had once been the firm's principal occupation, and disposed of the launches Foss No. 3, Foss No. 10 and Fossberg. Gordon Newell, Marine Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 374.

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Dolphin (fishing Steamer)

Two Puget Sound gasoline fishing schooners, the Dolphin and Carrier Dove, were lost in Canadian waters within 24 hours in February, 1912. The Dolphin, with three men aboard, was totally wrecked after going ashore at Plumper Pass on February 23, 1912.

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Don Jose Figueras (freighter)

The only serious accident to befall an offshore merchant vessel in Northwest waters was a fire which broke out in the forward holds of the 466-foot Filipino freighter Don Jose Figueras at sea 950 miles northwest of San Francisco. Much of the cargo was composed of such flammable items as clothing, toys and such craft items as baskets and wooden carvings and the fire spread rapidly, the forward section of the vessel glowing red hot as the crew took to the lifeboats and were picked up by rescue ships which were standing by. A damage control party from the Coast Guard cutter Yocona boarded the burning freighter and got the worst of the flames under control, after which the cutter took her in tow. Water pumped into the holds caused the sodden cargo to shift and the vessel took a 32 degree list. Upon the arrival of the tug Salvage Chief, the Yocona returned to station and the fire-gutted cargo vessel was towed to Port Angeles, where she was anchored in sheltered waters at the eastern limits of the harbor. Due to th

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Donna (fishboat)

American fish boat, 20 tons, wrecked with the loss of her three crew members, near Ocean Park, April 14, 1944. Wreck was removed from the beach via the overland route. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Donna (fishing Boat)

American twenty ton fish boat wrecked near Ocean Park on April 14, 1944. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 161.

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Donna Foss (1) (tugboat)

The Donna Foss was one of ten Miki-class tugs built for the Army Transporation service. She was completed in the Barbee Marine Yard at Kennydale, Washington in 1944. She was declared surplus by the government in 1946 and was acquired by Foss. She operated in Coastwise and Alaska towing until September 25, 1970 when she was sold to Philippine interests. One year before that in June of 1969 the Donna Foss became the Anna Foss and at the beginning of the Philippine venture was renamed the Bruin. This vessel was decommissioned in mid 1978 at Manila. Michael Skalley, The tug Donna Foss (1), Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981. p. 161.

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Donna Foss (2) (tugboat)

The second DONNA FOSS arrived at Foss-Seattle from the Portland builder's yard in late September 1969, seventh in the series of D class boats. Built by the Albina Shipyard the Donna Foss is 66 feet long with a 24 foot beam. The vessel is used primarily on Puget Sound towing although she has been to Alaska many times. Michael Skalley, The Donna Foss (2) Foss Ninety Years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 267.

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Donna Foss (tug)

Another of the intermediate sized D boats, Donna Foss of 1,500-horsepower, was completed at the Albina yard in Portland, joining the Dorothy, Deborah, Diane, Delores, Dean and David. The old Miki type tug Donna Foss was renamed Anna Foss upon completion of the new steel vessel. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.60.

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Donna Francisca (bark)

The four masted bark off the Strait of Juan De Fuca after 1900. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 33.

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Dorothy Foss (tug)

The tug Dorothy Foss, 72 feet long and 24 feet beam, was launched last week at Albina Engine and Machine Works, Inc. for Foss Launch and Tug Company's service in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The boat will have a loaded draft of about 7.5 feet when the fuel tanks are filled with 22,000 gallons of oil. Power is provided by a pair of 500 hp Caterpillar diesel. After outfitting, the $250,000 tug will go to Seattle, then to An- chorage, according to Bill Wood, marine superintendent of the Foss company. She will be used for towing barges and drilling equip- ment for Pan-American Oil Co., one of the major companies drilling wells in the Kenai Peninsula, Wood said. The modern new tug for the big Fcss fleet will be equipped with all of the latest mechanical and electronic devices. Designed by Ed Monk, Seattle naval architect, the tug was named for the wife of Roland Foss, Fairbanks, Alaska. Albina will lay down the bottom plates for an 80-foot tug for Ha- waiian Tug & Barge Co. in about a week, according to Claude F Butler, ch

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Dorothy Foss (tugboat)

The Dorothy Foss was built in 1963 by the Albina Shipbuilding Company of Portland, Oregon. Her length is 66 feet with a 24 foot beam. She is one of eight D-Class vessels built for Foss and was the first built for Foss from keel up since 1958. Although used in Alaska for work at Cook Inlet much of her service has been on Puget Sound. When the Foss book was written in 1981 the tug was still in service. Michael Skalley, The Dorothy Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 233.

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Dr. Martin (ferry)

The gas-engined former Lake Washington passenger ferry Dr. Martin was purchased by the Northern Commercial Co. for the St. Michael -Holy Cross mail route. She had received a new 80-horsepower Mianus diesel prior to the sale. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1924, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle : Superior Publishing Company, 1966 p. 355.

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Drafna

The Drafna was owned by Hans Ki�r & Co in Drammen. Master was Hartvig Eckersberg. She had a burden of 185,5 Norwegian Kommerselester, measures: 102,5 x 27,2 x 17,8. Drafna is said to have been a very solid built ship.When Drafna ones hit solid rock, and was stuck, the insurance company wanted to send down a diver to check for damages. One of the owners them said that they would be welcome to do so, if they wanted to se if the rock had been damaged. Agents were shipbroker Bang in Drammen, and the ship captain. Drafna was used for freight of timber from Canada. Condemned in Queenstown in 1890 on passage from Quebec to Liverpool with timber. Drafna sailed in 1849, 1850, 1852 and 1853 with emigrants from Norway to America. It is possible that she also made a crossing with passengers in 1848. [From The Solem and Swiggum Ship Index - [E-mail from Ann Helgeson - 9 June 1998]

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Drew Foss (1) (tugboat)

The Drew Foss was built by the Foss Company at their Tacoma yard in 1929. The tugboat was powered with a Caterpillar 325 horse engine. She was built following the plans of the Foss 11. Her primary service was on Puget Sound but was declared surplus on December 19, 1975 when her engine was removed. In 1977 she was cold to British Columbia interests and was named the Beverly Ann II. (Michael Skalley. Foss, one hundred years of towboating, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 77.

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Drew Foss (2) (tugboat)

The second DREW, fourth and last in her class of new Foss ocean tugs, was completed and ready for service at New Iberia, Louisiana by the McDermotte Shipyard Group in March 1977. The tug is 120 feet long with a 34 foot beam. Her primary service is Ocean towing and Coastwise Towing. Michael Skalley, The Drew Foss (2) , Foss, ninety years of Towboating. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1981, p. 294.

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Drexel Victory (freighter)

January 21, 1947 A victory ship of 10,500 tons gross, 7607 net. Launched 4/7/1945 by Kaiser at Richmond, Ca. Outbound for Yokohama, the ship struck the Columbia bar and began breaking between holds 4 and 5. Captain Canute Rommerdahl did his best for Olson & Co. and the U.S. Maritime Commission, but his ship drifted and sank due west of buoy #6, a quarter mile out in 210', losing a grain cargo of more than 5,000 tons. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Cape Falcon to Cape Disappointment, Oregon Shipwrecks. 1984, p. 127-34..

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Duchess Of Albany

This British ship was stranded at Bonilla Point, B. C., in 1888. No details. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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Duchess Of Argyle (bark)

A British four-masted bark, 1,700 tons, inbc)und to Burrard Inlet from Liverpool, wrecked in fog five miles southeast of Port San Juan, near Sombrio Point, October 11, 1887. Commanded by Captain H. E. Heard. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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Duchess Of Bedford

The "Duchess of Bedford" was built by John Brown & Co Ltd, Glasgow in 1928 for Canadian Pacific SS Ltd. She was a 20,123 gross ton ship, length 601ft x beam 75.2ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 18 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 580-cabin, 480-tourist and 510-3rd class. Launched on 24/1/1928 by Mrs Stanley Baldwin, the wife of the British prime minister, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Quebec and Montreal on 1/6/1928. On her second westbound crossing, she set a new record of six days, nine and a half hours from Liverpool to Montreal. In July 1933 she was in collision with an iceberg in Belle Isle Strait, but sustained only slight damage. Five days before the declaration of war in 1939, she was chartered for a trooping voyage to Bombay, and on 5/1/1940 resumed Liverpool - St John NB - Halifax voyages, being used on the Eastbound crossings to ferry Canadian troops to Britain. In August 1940 she commenced the first of three voyages to Suez via Freetown and Cape Town. In November 1941 she left Liverpool on a 5 month voyage which took her to Singapore with 4000 Indian troops and 40 nurses. Arriving at the end of January 1942, she embarked 875 women and children for evacuation to Batavia, Java. Although attacked on several occasions, she was not seriously damaged, and arrived at Liverpool on 2/4/1942. After two trips to Cape Town, she sailed from Liverpool for Boston on 7/8/1942 and on 9th August, sighted a U-Boat and sank her by gunfire. She was later used in the North African landings and shot down an enemy aircraft in November 1943. Later used in the Sicily and Salerno landings and various trooping voyages, and prisoner of war repatriations. On 3/3/1947 she arrived at Glasgow to be refitted to carry 400-1st and 300-tourist class passengers, her speed increased to 20 knots, and was renamed "Empress of France" in October 1947. She resumed Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal sailings on 1/9/1948 and in 1958 was fitted with new streamlined funnels and her accommodation altered to carry 218-1st and 482-tourist class passengers. She started her last Montreal - Liverpool crossing on 30/11/1960 having made 310 round voyages on the North Atlantic, and on 19/12/1960 sailed from Liverpool for Newport, Monmouthshire where she was scrapped. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1317-18][Canadian Pacific - 100 years by George Musk] -

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Duke Of Buckingham

The "Duke of Buckingham", built in 1880 for the Ducal Line by Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow. She was a 3,123 gross ton ship, length 384ft x beam 38.3ft, one funnel, four masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. She sailed from London on her first voyage to Suez, Batavia, Brisbane and Newcastle, NSW on 4th December 1882 and stayed on this joint service with British India Stem Nav. Co until 1886. In December 1886 she was chartered to the Huntington Line and sailed between London, Havre and Newport News(arrived 13/1/1887). In Feb.1887 she started her first Liverpool - Newport News voyage and made her last sailing on this service in March 1888 (arr. Newport News 3rd April). She then went back to the Australia route and made her last sailing to Brisbane on 25/8/1900. In 1900 she was sold to Macbeth & Grey and in 1902 was resold to Italian owners. She was broken up at Genoa in July 1903.[orth Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber, p.171-176] [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1174-5] -

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Duke Of Westminster

The "Duke of Westminster" was built in 1882 by the Barrow Shipbuilding Co, Barrow for the Ducal Line. She was a 3,726 gross ton ship, length 400ft x beam 40.3ft (121,91m x 12,28m), one funnel, four masts, single screw and a speed of 12 knots. There was accommodation for 40-1st class, plus 3rd class passengers. Launched on 27th April 1882, she was used for the joint service with British India Steam Nav.Co between London, Suez, Batavia and Brisbane. She started her first voyage on this service on 2/7/1883 and her last on 26/6/1902. Between 1886-88 she was chartered to the Huntington Line and made several voyages between London or Liverpool and Newport News. In 1903 she was sold to Italian owners, renamed "Westminster" and was scrapped at Genoa in September 1903. [North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber, p.171-176] [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3, p.1174] -

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Duncan Foss (1) (tugboat)

The Duncan Foss began her career as a U.S. Navy harbor tug built by th Victory Shipbuilding Corporation of Newport Beach, California. She was 63 feet in length with an 18 foot beam. A name change was made in October 1969 when the Duncan Foss (1) became the Elaine Foss. She was operated by Foss on Puget Sound until December 29, 1971. A major overhaul was planned but instead she was placed in dead storage. She was sold to Canadian interests and was renamed Cumshewa Chief. Sold some time later she was renamed Tania Too for service in the area around Bella Bella, B.C. Michael Skalley, The Duncan Foss (1) , Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 172.

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Duncan Foss (towing Vessel)

Duncan Foss, 1,500 horsepower, eighth of the 72 x 24-foot Foss Launch & Tug Co. D boats, by Albina at Portland for Alaska barge service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.76.

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Duncan Foss (tug)

Duncan Foss, 63 x 17.8-foot steel tug rebuilt by the Foss Launch & Tug Co. at Tacoma from a Navy tug brought from Honolulu and fitted with a 450 horsepower Nordberg diesel. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966 p. 586.

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Dupont (freighter)

The DuPont, a 65-foot explosives freighter of 75 horsepower, was built at Manitou Beach, Seattle, by the Astoria Iron Works for the DuPont Powder Company in 1912. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 206.

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Duwamish (fireboat)

Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 207. Veteran Seattle fireboat soon to retire, Marine Digest. March 17, 1984, p. 11+ Fireboat Chief Seattle to replace Duwamish, Marhine Digest. October 20, 1984,p.11. Nothing on the Duwamish except that she will be declared surplus. Veteran Fireboat Duwamish to be preseved on the waterfront with backing of Ivar,Marine Digest. November23, 1985.p.4.

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Duwamish (fireboat)

A waterfront fire at Seattle on July 29 practically destroyed the handsome pier building of the Grand Trunk Pacific, resulting in the loss of four lives and injuries to nearly a score of persons. Both land fire companies and the fireboat Duwamish fought the blaze, which was one of the most stubborn and spectacular in the city's history. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1914, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.247-248.

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E. F. Purdy (steamer)

The former, in command of her owner, Capt. W. K. Merwin, was in Sullivan Slough, a few miles from La Conner, loading hay, and a little after midnight, April 9th, completed her cargo and backed away from the dock. Before she had gone three lengths, a blaze was discovered in the fire-room, and the inflammable nature of her freight rendered all efforts to subdue the flames futile. The engineer threw the throttle wide open, then came out through a window, and with the rest of the crew reached shore in safety. The wheels continued to revolve for about fifteen minutes after the steamer grounded, but as the tide went out, leaving the vessel almost high and dry, she burned down to the keel. The officers of the steamer were W. K. Merwin, captain; H. A. Soper, mate; John A. Williamson, chief engineer; John H. Skinner, steward and H. B. Campbell, purser. The Purdy was valued at about $15,000 and was uninsured. E. W. Wright. Growth of Deep-water Commerce, Great Loss of Life by Marine Disasters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine

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E. L. Bartlett (ferry)

Several new passenger and automobile ferries appeared on the scene, the most notable of which was the E. L. Bartlett, latest addition to the Alaska Ferry System fleet, which arrived at Seattle during the summer after a 6,600-mile voyage from the builder's yard (Jeffboat, Inc.) in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The 193-foot vessel, certified to carry 165 passengers and 38 automobiles, is propelled by diesel engines and twin screws and fitted with a bowthruster for added maneuverability. Designed by Philip F. Spaulding for service between Cordova, Valdez and Whit- tier, the Bartlett was fitted with hinged ramps at both bow and stern to allow for the 20-foot tidal range encountered in Prince William Sound. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.65.

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E. T. Short, The Wreck Of The Steamer Pacific, T

The famous six-masted barkentine E. R. Sterling, operated since 1910 by Capt. E. R. Sterling and commanded by him on this voyage, was caught in a violent gale off the Falkland Islands on July 4 while en route from Australia for the United Kingdom with wheat after being idle at Adelaide for well over a year. Her main and mizzen masts were lost. Two months later, while in the latitude of the Cape Verdes, another storm took away her foremast, fatally injuring the mate, Roderick Mackenzie. The baitered barkentine finally reached St. Thomas under jury rig on October 15 and was taken in tow by the Dutch tug Indus, reaching the Thames on January 28, 1928 with her cargo intact, 286 days out from Adelaide. The once smart vessel was little better than a wreck, and after discovering the prohibitive costs of repairing and rerigging her, Capt. Sterling reluctantly sold her to Sunderland shipbreakers, where she was dismantled for scrap. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific

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Eagle (fishboat)

The 28-ton gasoline fishing vessel Eagle, buut ordy the previous year, stranded and broke up September 12 in Barkley Sound, the five -man crew escaping safely. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1918, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 301.

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Earl Foss (tug Boat)

The Earl Foss was built as a Landing Craft Mechanized (LCM) in 1944 at the Walsh Construction Company works at Jersey City, New Jersey. She was 46 feet long with a beam of 14 feet. She was acquired by Foss in January, 1951 and worked mostly around Chambers Creek and Commencement Bay. On February 10, 1968 the Earl Foss experienced engine trouble and her machinery was removed in the fall of 1968 and she was later scrapped. Michael Skalley, The Earl Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 173.

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Earl Of Dalhousie

Raising the Earl of Dalhousie, The Overland Monthly. (March, 1888), p. 232.

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Earl Of Sefton

From my own databases which includes references from St. John Ships and Their Builders by Esther Clark Wright, I have the following on EARL OF SEFTON: Year - 1854. Name - EARL OF SEFTON. Rig - ship. Tons - 1082. Builder - John McDonald & Co Liverpool. Disposal - 1854. Remarks Built in 1854 by John McDonald & Co. in St. John New Brunswick in 1854 sold to Charles Moore and Robert Carlyle in Liverpool in 1854, she was wrecked in 1859. Also from Frederick W. Wallace, the following information Vessel Name: EARL OF SEFTON. Rigging : ship. Tonnage : 1126. Length : 179.50. Beadth: 32.20. Depth : 22.10. Date Built : 1854. Location Built.: St. John. Province Built : New Brunswick. Country Built: Canada. Builder's Name : J.McDonald. Reason Closed : sold. Date Closed : 1855. Place Closed : Liverpool. Data Source: Frederick W. Wallace - Record of Canadian Shipping 1786-1920

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Eastern Prince (of 1896)

See PRINCE LINE FREIGHTERS

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Eclipse (fully Rigged Ship)

The old Downeast full-rigged ship Eclipse, 1,594 tons, 221.7 x 40.3 x 24.3, built at Bath, Maine in 1878 for G. S. Dearborn, foundered at sea January 1 1 while on a voyage from Newcastle for San Francisco. The survivors reached Honolulu in an open boat, in pitiable condition, three of the men having died of hunger and thirst. Following the loss of the Eclipse the New York Shipping Illustrated published the following interesting account: Many strange things befell the Eclipse before she went to Davy Jones' locker. One of the most mysterious occurred several years ago, within 100 miles of where the Eclipse was lost. The ship, coal-laden, was bound from Newcastle, N. S. W., for Honolulu. She lost the trade wind December 1, and the next day opened up with one of those scorchingly hot calms for which the Pacific is noted. During the forenoon watch there was the faintest suspicion of a breath of air and a Promethean heat hung over the vessel. Every available sail, even to three skysails, was set to woo the sulky,

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Ed Wynn (fireboat)

A 65-foot wooden fireboat built in 1942 for the Army was acquired by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and assigned to McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary as the Ed Wynt. Fitted with three diesel engines, one for propulsion and two for pumping, the fireboat had a capacity of 4,000 gallons of water per minute. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 518.

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Edith (fishing Schooner)

The fishing schooner Edith, was lost on Waadah Island at Neah Bay, May 8, 1910. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910., p. 179.

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Edith (freighter)

The steamship Edith, in the freight service of the Alaska Steamship Co., southbound from Nome, loaded a heavy cargo of copper concentrates at LaTouche Island in late August, and then proceeded toward Tacoma. Shortly after leaving the island, the Edith ran into heavy weather which caused her semi-liquid cargo to shift and placed the steamer in imminent danger of capsizing. The crew of 37, under Capt. C. B. McMullen, abandoned the vessel on August 30 and were picked up shortly afterward by the steamship Mariposa, northbound. The Mariposa put a line aboard the Edith, but as the big freighter continued to sink lower in the water the line parted and efforts to tow her were abandoned. It is probable the vessel foundered in the Gulf of Alaska later that night. The 2,369-ton iron vessel was the former British steamship Glenochil of 1882 which had been brought around during the early Klondike gold rush days. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.257.

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Edith F.

See JUNO.

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Edith Foss (2) (tugboat)

The Edith Foss was built as a combination tug and passenger vessel in New Orleans in 1919 and was operated by the U.S. Navy. Purchased by the R.J. Ultican Tugboat Company of Gig Harbor she was rebuilt in 1928. She was renamed the Rustler and later the Dauntless and when purchased by the Foss Company became the Edith Foss on September 26, 1946. When sold in 1969 to Mexican interests she left the Pacific Northwest as the Rustler. Michael Skalley, The Edith Foss (2), Foss Ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 139-140.

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Edith Foss (3) (tug)

The Edith Foss was originally a U.S. Army tug T-118 built at Newport Beach, California in 1944 for War service. She was purchased by Pacific Tow and Salvage Company and Long Beach in September of 1957 and given the name Pacific P.T. and S. After some work on Puget Sound the vessel was transferred to Foss on August 12, 1960. The vessel worked on Puget Sound and worked until April 1979 when she was sold to Alaska interests and given the name Mavis Lynn. Michael Skalley, Edith Foss (3), Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 211.

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Edith Foss (tug Boat)

Foss Launch and Tug Company now serving the Columbia River with tugs Edith Foss and Benjamin Foss, Marine Digest. April 20, 1985. (il).

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Edith Foss (tug)

The Edith Foss, formerly the Grays Harbor tug Rustler, returned to that port, being sold by Foss Launch & Tug Co. to the Hubble Towing Co. The name Edith Foss was transferred to the former Alaska Packers Association tug Chilkat, a 115-foot vessel built at San Francisco in 1901. The 82-foot Dauntless (built at New Orleans in 1919 for the U. S. Navy) returned to Foss ownership within about a year and for a time there were two Edith Foss designations in the fleet. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior, 1966..

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Edith Foss (tug)

The Army tug LT-239, formerly the Edith Foss, was rammed and sunk by the steamship Victoria of the Alaska Steamship Co. December 4 in the Alaska Inside Passage. The 15 Army crew members of the tug were removed, arriving in Seattle without a dime to their names just as their first furloughs in two to three years were about to begin. A collection was taken up along the Seattle waterfront, replacing part of the $3,000 in personal funds lost in the sinking. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 521.

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Edith Foss (tugboat)

The Edith Foss was built in San Francisco in 1901 as the steam cannery tender Chilkat for use in the Alaska trade. She had a length of 115 feet with a 24 foot beam. She was purchased by the foos Launch and Tug Company on January 21, 1942 and became the Edith Foss. Her major work was in Alaska and on December 4, 1943 while bound for Seattle she was rammed by the Alaska Steamship Company vessel Victoria and sank near Prince Rupert. Michael Skalley, The Edith Foss (1), Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 125.

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Effie Afton (steamer)

Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 594.

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Efin (freighter)

American, river freight boat, 196 tons, was destroyed by explosion and fire at 9:30 p.m. after departing Ilwaco for Astoria, May 11, 1937. The fire was caused by a fuel tank explosion. Capt. Alfred Babbidge and his crew of ten took to the lifeboat and ivcre picked up half clothed by the motor lifeboat from Cape Disappointment. Among the crew was a woman cook. The Efin burned to the water's edge and her remains drifted to Sand Island. The vessel built at St. Helens, Oregon, in 1914, was owned by Babbidge 8c Holt, of Portland. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Efin (river Freight Boat)

Exploded May 11, 1937 off of Ilwaco. Built in 1914 at St. Helen's Oregon. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 162.

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Ehrenfels (steamer)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 25, 162.

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Eiko (fishboat)

The 45 foot fish boat Eiko which sank last October in 175 feet of water in Dodd Narrows, near Harmac was raised last week by two amateur salvage men from Nanaimo, Marvin Sjogrem and David Dickinson, assisted by Amby Charmley. The site of the wreck was located by an oil slick and Dave Dickinson was able to reach it by skin diving. The vessel was then brought to the surface and successfully docked at Nanaimo. It was formerly owned by R. D. Harley of Nanaimo. (The Marine Digest. March 9, 1963), p. 35.

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Elaine Foss (1) (tugboat)

The Elaine Foss (1) was built in St. Helens, Oregon in 1925 as the Larch for the U.S. Light House Service as a buoy tender on the Columbia River. She was purchased by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredge Company in 1935 and was renamed the Loyal. The Foos company purchased the vessel in 1945 and after a major refit worked out of Seattle for the next twenty years. She was sold to the Annette Timber Corporation of Ketchikan and was renamed Trinity. On February 6, 1972 she sank near Prince of Wales Island in a storm. Michael Skalley, The Elaine Foss (1) Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1981. p. 145.

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Elberfeld

See HERCYNIA.

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Electra (fishboat)

American fish boat, 72 tons, stranded on Clatsop Spit, inside the river bar, January 26, 1944. All hands were rescued. The Coast Guard cutter Nemaha attempted several times to pull the craft to safety, but was unsuccessful. A year later only the Electra's mast remained above the sand and surf. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190.

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Electra (fishboat)

Stranded on Clatsop Spit on January 26, 1944. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 163.

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Electra (fishboat)

The 72 -ton commercial fishing vessel Electra, 68 feet in length, built at Seattle in 1927 and owned by C. B. Samuelson of that port, stranded on Clatsop Spit inside the Columbia River bar January 26. All hands were rescued and the Coast Guard cutter Nemaha made several attempts to refloat the diesel-powered craft. These were unsuccessful and she was soon engulfed by the shifting sands of the river entrance. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 521.

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Elf

Built in Tacoma in 1902. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 207.

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Elf (tugboat)

Early Olson Tugboat Company vessels in the City Waterway about 1912, Tacoma News Tribune. March 19, 1961, p. A-16.

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Elfin (freight Boat)

Elfin, 196-ton gasoline powered river freight boat of 100 horsepower, at St. Helens, operated by Babbidge & Holt of Portland on the Astoria and Ilwaco route. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1914, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.244.

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Elfin (freighter)

May 11, 1937 Diesel freighter, 196 tons, 84' in length. A total loss due to an engine room fire. Captain Alfred Babbidge and 10 of her crew were rescued by C G Cape D lifeboat. *Erria 12/20/1951 Motor, cargo, passenger vessel of the Danish East-Asiatic Line. In the road at Astoria with a fire caused by an electrical short. Within 10 minutes after the first fire alarm, Captain M. Agge ordered the 450'ship cleared of her passengers. Out of the 83 crew and 31 passengers, eight passengers in cabins and three crewmen in #5 hold died. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Columbia Bar inside Tongue Point, Oregon Shipwrecks. 1984. p. 163-65.

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Elfin (freighter)

May 11, 1937 Diesel freighter, 196 tons, 84' in length. A total loss due to an engine room fire. Captain Alfred Babbidge and 10 of her crew were rescued by C G Cape D lifeboat. *Erria 12/20/1951 Motor, cargo, passenger vessel of the Danish East-Asiatic Line. In the road at Astoria with a fire caused by an electrical short. Within 10 minutes after the first fire alarm, Captain M. Agge ordered the 450'ship cleared of her passengers. Out of the 83 crew and 31 passengers, eight passengers in cabins and three crewmen in #5 hold died. Don Marshall, Ship Disasters, Columbia Bar inside Tongue Point, Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binford and Mort, 163-166.

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Elfin (freighter)

The Elfin, a 196-ton motor freighter, destroyed by explosion and fire May 11, 1937 after departing Astoria for Ilwaco, Capt. Alfred Babbidge and his crew of ten (including a woman cook), being picked up by the Coast Guard motor lifeboat from Cape Disappointment Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 458.

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Elfin (freighter)

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Elfin (steamer)

The small Lake Washington passenger steamer Elfin, built at Pontiac in 1891 by E. F. Lee, was rebuilt to greater capacity, the pilot house being placed on the upper deck. The 54.5 - foot craft was also repowered with a new compound (6, 12 x 10) engine. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1896, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966,p. 4.

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Elias Howe (freighter)

Two men of the Elias Howe were killed when a torpedo struck the engine room September 24 off Aden. Capt. J. W. Dickover and the rest of the crew were picked up safely. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 520.

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Elijah Swift

The ELIJAH SWIFT was not a ship but a bark, a 3-masted vessel, the fore- and mainmasts square-rigged, the mizzenmast (the sternmost mast) rigged fore-and-aft. She was built at Falmouth, Maine, in 1847, and was registered at the Port of New York on 24 January 1848; she was 371 tons [Forrest R. Holdcamper, comp., List of American-flag Merchant Vessels that received Certificates of Enrollment or Registry at the Port of New York, 1789-1867 (Record Groups 41 and 36), National Archives Publication 68-10, Special Lists 22 (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1968), p. 197]. -

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Elisif (schooner)

The Norwegian auxiliary schooner Elisif, Capt. Edwin Larsen, owned by the Swenson Trading Co. of Seattle, departed Puget Sound on an Arctic trading expedition in July, 1928 and in the fall of that year was caught in the ice and imprisoned until the summer of 1929, when she resumed her voyage, but was again caught in the ice off the Siberian coast in August, her hull being damaged so severely that it was necessary to beach her to prevent sinking. Her 20 -man crew reached Little Diomede Island in two launches, where they were picked up by the Coast Guard cutter Northland, which carried them to Nome. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 403.

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Eliza Ladd (ferry Boat)

The steam ferry-boat Eliza Ladd was sold to Capt. Thomas Callahan aild Michael O'Neil. Her new owners rebuilt her as a sternwheel scow and under the name Margey operated her in the freighting business until 1890, when she was bought by Hall & Myrick of Seattle, who in turn disposed of her to Stetson & Post. She is still in service on the Sound and is owned by A. 0. Benjanmin of Seattle. E.W. Wright, Marine business of 1885, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. [Written in 1895.]., p. 329.

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Elk (ferry)

The 67-foot motor ferry Elk with 100-horsepower F-M ofl engine was built at Gig Harbor in 1921 by Skansie Bros. for service on the Steilacoom-Longbranch Island route under contract to Pierce County. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1921-22, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 325.

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Ella Frances

Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington., II, p. 354.

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Ella Francis (bark)

The bark Ella Francis, Captain Hull, from Port Orchard for San Francisco, was abandoned, February 5th,[ 1866] eighty miles southwest of Cape Classett. The bark sailed from Port Orchard, January 4th, with two hundred thousand feet of lumber and ninety piles for A. P. Glidden, and met with a succession of southerly gales until January 16th, when, in latitude 43 and longitude 125, she met with an unusually severe hurricane. While scudding before it under bare poles she sprang a leak, which continued to gain on them until February 5th, when, with six feet of water in the hold and the crew exhausted after twelve days at the pumps, they were forced to abandon her and were picked up by the British ship Egeria, Captain Evans, off the Farallones, February 15th, and transferred to the pilot-boat Fanny, which took them to San Francisco the next day. E. W. Wright, The 'Brother Jonathan' and Other Notable Wrecks, Steamboating on Interior Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiqua

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Ellen Foss (tug)

The Ellen Foss, a former government tug built during World War II, was thoroughly renovated and modernized at the Seattle yard. Her power was more than tripled, from 1,225 to 4,000 horsepower, with the installation of a new turbo-charged General Motors diesel. She also received new auxiliary engines, generators, anchor windlass and towing winch and complete electronic equipment. Following trials she was dispatched to Honolulu towing the seagoing lumber barge Koko Head. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.41.

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Ellen Foss (tugboat)

Foss Company's one and only ELLEN was originally the LT-57, built by the Army Transport Service for coastwise and ocean towing, though starting out life on the Great Lakes. She shifted from fresh to salt water shortly after her break-in runs. After war service the vessel was placed in the reserve fleet at Clatskanie, Oregon until purchased by Foss in August of 1962. She has operted along the Northwest Coast and in Alaska and occasionally to Hawaii. She was in service when Mr. Skalley's book was written. Michael Skalley, The Ellen Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 227.

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Ellen Foster

An American ship, 996 tons, was wrecked in Neah Bay, Washington, December 22, 1867. Commanded by Captain Anderson, the vessel was in ballast, bound for Utsaladdy, Washington, from Callao, for a cargo of lumber. Vessel was victim of a hurricane from the east southeast inside the strait. She ran for Neah Bay, anchoring in nine fathoms. The blow continued and she dragged across the reef and sank. Crew made shore in ship's boat. They were later taken to Port Townsend by the tug Cyrus Walker. The Foster was a swift clipper ship, built at Medford, Massachusetts, in 1852, for J. & A. Tirrell of Boston. A bronze cannon recovered from Neah Bay in the 1920s was believed to be from the Ellen Foster. Jim Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan de Fuca, Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968.

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Ellen Foster

Lucile McDonald. Swan among the Indians., p. 139.

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Ellen Foster

The American ship Ellen Foster, Captain Anderson, from Callao for Utsalady, was wrecked in Neah Bay in December. The vessel sighted Cape Flattery at 9:00 A.M., December 21st, but a strong east wind kept her from making any headway until the next morning, when she caught a light northeaster which sent her twenty miles up the Straits by noon. Here she encountered a hurricane from east southeast and ran for Neah Bay, anchoring in nine fathoms of water; but both anchors would not hold her, and she dragged to the reef, striking at 3:00 P.M. and beginning to break up at once. The crew reached shore in the life boat and on the twenty-ninth were taken to Port Townsend by the tug Cyrus Walker. E. W. Wright, The Alaska Purchase, Advent of Many Fine Steamers on Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.163.

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Elsie (steam Ferry)

The small side-wheel steam ferry Elsie May, crossing the Columbia at Wallula, was rebuilt as gas side-wheeler of 26 tons, 54 feet in length. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1907, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.. p. 140.

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Elsie Branford (gas Schooner)

The gas schooner Elsie Bradford was damaged November 6, 1911, by a gravel scow she was towing and foundered near Nanaimo, Capt. Bradford and the crew escaping in a skiff. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 196.

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Elsie Foss (tug)

The Elsie Foss was built for the United States Army in Portland in 1953. Twin to the Elmer Foss the vessel is 53 feet long with a 14 foot beam. The vessel was sold to Foss in September of 1957 and worked in supplying the DEW line stations in Alaska. In 1962 the Elsie was towed to Seattle and redeveloped into a crew boat for work on Cook Inlet. In May of 1977 she was sold to Dan Calusen of Kenai, Alaska for private use, Michael Skalley, The Elmer Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating, Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 194.

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Elwha (ferry)

Grounded in San Juan Islands, Tacoma News Tribune. October 2, 1983.

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Emil Kirdorff

The EMIL KIRDORF was one of 4 nearly identical vessels by Marinewerft Wilhelmshaven (ship #66) for the A.G. Hugo Stinnes between 1921 and 1923; launched 25 February 1922, delivered 2 August 1922. 5,695 tons gross/3,426 tons net; 124.89 x 16.41 x 7.21 meters/409 ft 9 in x 53 ft 10 in x 23 ft 8 in (length x breadth x depth of hold); 1 funnel, 2 masts; single screw, triple expansion and low pressure turbine; 3 cylinders, 64.13 cm (25 1/4 in), 104.14 cm (41 in), and 167.64 cm (66 in), stroke 125.09 cm (49 1/4 in), 305 nominal horsepower, service speed 11 knots; steel construction, 1 deck and shelter deck, forecastle 49 14.93 meters (49 ft); cargo capacity 11,603 cubic meters (410,000 cubic feet) grain; accommodation for 50 passengers in 1st class; crew of 72. Ran originally in Stinnes's South American service. November 1926, acquired by HaPAG (Hamburg-America Line). First on HaPAG's East Asian service, later transferred to the South American service. 1928, new turbine, service speed increased to 12 knots. 1932, sold to Serv. Mar. Romania, Braila, and renamed ARDEAL. 11 June 1942, torpedoed by Soviet U boat A 5 in the Black Sea, and beached. 1945, refloated by the Soviets and repaired in Odessa. 1948, returned to Romania (managed by Sovromtransport). 1963, scrapped in Romania [Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischoff, Die Schiffe der Hamburg-Amerika-Linie, Bd. 2: 1907-1926 (Herford: Koehler, 1980), pp. 150-151 (photograph); Duncan Haws, Merchant Fleets in Profile, vol. 4: The ships of the Hamburg America, Adler and Carr Lines (Cambridge: Patrick Stevens, 1980) p. 143, no. 519 (silhouette)].-

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Emily F. Whitman (schooner)

The schooner Emily F. Whitman was wrecked at Nushagak in 1912. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 211.

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Emily Farnum

The American ship Emily Farnum, 1,194 tons, sailed from San Francisco for Departure Bay, November 12, 1875, in command of Captain Austin, with nine passengers, nineteen crew, and one hundred tons of railroad iron. She had fine weather until the sixteenth, when a heavy southeast gale raged, during which the cargo shifted and the ship lost considerable canvas. On the eighteenth the wind increased, accompanied by squalls and snow, and at midnight land was reported dead ahead. An attempt was at once made to stay the ship, which failed, and she was again hauled to the wind, but, in endeavoring to weather Destruction Island, a heavy sea drove the vessel toward the rocks, and at 12:30 she struck heavily. The port anchor was let go and the main and mizzen mast cut away. An effort was also made to launch the boats, but they were destroyed by the force of the waves. The foremast was then cut away, forming a bridge to the rocks to the leeward. At 2:00 A.M. the vessel parted amidships, the top part of her house, to which

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Emmett Felitz (sealing Schooner)

At Seattle the sealing schooner Emmett Felitz, fifty feet long and seventeen feet beam, for the Neah Bay Indians, who have since operated her as a sealer. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and the years covered in this chapter are 1891 and 1892., p.393.

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Emperor Of Port Mcnicoll

Name of Nootka, Canadian Adventurer and Iquites. Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb. The Princess Story a century and a half of w p. 344.

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Empire Helford

See LITUANIA.

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Empress Of Asia (liner)

More well-known vessels in peacetime trade from Northwest ports were lost as a result of enemy action in 1942. The largest of these was the 16,908-ton quadruple-screw mail liner Empress of Asia, formerly in the Vancouver-Oriental service of the Canadian Pacific, which was sunk by Japanese aircraft off Singapore on February 5. (Late in 1951 the underwriters rights in the wreckage were purchased by the International Salvage Association, Ltd., who removed the wreckage for scrap.) Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1942, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 510.

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Empress Of Asia (liner)

The Canadian Pacific Railway continued to operate its splendid trans-Pacific liners Empress of Asia and Empress of Russia, and these were joined in 19@2 by two additional steamships, the Empress of Canada, built by Fairfield, and the Empress of Australia, formerly the German liner Tripitz. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922. H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 318.

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Empress Of Asia (liner)

The two great C. P. R. trans -Pacific liners Empress Of Asia and Empress of Russia, taken over as armed merchant cruisers in 1914, had been returned to company service in 1916 and maintained regular commercial sailings throughout 1917. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1917, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle:Superior, 1966., p. 289.

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Empress Of Asia (liner)

By far the finest of the new vessels to enter service to the Pacific Northwest in 1913 were the splendid new Canadian Pacific trans-Pacific liners Empress of Russia and Empress of Asia, both with dimensions of 570 x 68 x 42 (their overall length being 600 feet), fitted with four steam turbines of 19,000 shaft horsepower driving quadruple screws, and six double-ended and four single-ended coal fired boilers. These handsome three-funnelled steamships were the first large liners to be built with cruiser sterns. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p224. The Empress of Asia, 16,908 tons, was launched by the same company on November 23, 1912, leaving Liverpool on her maiden voyage June 14, 1913. She was also requisitioned for armed patrol service the following year, returning to company service from 1916 to 1918, and again following the end of hostilities. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p22

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Empress Of Australia

See DE GRASSE.

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Empress Of Australia (liner)

The Empress of Australia, built by Vulcan in 1914, was also a three-stacker with two masts, but her Teutonic design presented a bulkier silhouette than that of the British-built Empresses. She was also noticeable for her elliptical stern, being the only liner of the post -war C. P. R. fleet to be so designed. She was a 22,000-ton vessel with dimensions of 590 x 75 x 42, with an overall length of 615 feet. Her six turbines and twin screws gave her a cruising speed of 18 knots. She carried 1, 100 passengers and a crew of 520. As the Tripitz she had been fitted with a special royal suite for the Kaiser and it was said that he had selected this splendid new liner to be his royal yacht for the triumphal cruise he hoped to make after the German victory' It is ironic that, although she never served under the German colors, she was commissioned a royal yacht in later years, carrying the British King George V and Queen Elizabeth to Canada in 1939.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922. H.W. McCurdy. Marine Histo

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Empress Of Britain (1)

The "Empress of Britain" was built for the Canadian Pacific Line by Fairfield Shipbuilding, Glasgow in 1906. She was a 14,189 gross ton vessel, length 548.8ft x beam 65.7ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 18 knots. There was accommodation for 310-1st, 470-2nd and 750-3rd class passengers. Launched on 11/11/1905 she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Quebec on 5/5/1906. Both the "Empress of Britain" and her sister ship, the ill-fated "Empress of Ireland" were the fastest ships on the Canada service at the time. On 22/7/1912, she rammed and sank the SS Helvetia in fog off Cape Magdeleine in the lower St Lawrence River. In 1914 she was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser and joined Admiral Stoddart's squadron in the S.Atlantic. She later patrolled between Cape Finisterre and the Cape Verde Islands. In May 1915 she was recommisioned as a troop transport and carried more than 110,000 troops to the Dardanelles, Egypt and India as well as Canadian and US expeditionary forces across the N.Atlantic. On 12/12/1915 while passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, she collided with and sank a Greek steamer. In March 1919 she resumed the Liverpool - St.John NB service for one round voyage and was then converted from coal to oil fuel and her passenger accommodation was modernised. On 1/9/1920 she returned to the Liverpool - Quebec service and in Oct.1922 commenced running between Southampton - Cherbourg - Quebec. In 1924 she was renamed "Montroyal" and her accommodation altered to carry 600-cabin and 800-3rd class passengers, returning to the Liverpool - Quebec service on 19/4/1924. In 1926 her accommodation was again altered to carry cabin, tourist and 3rd class and she made eight trips a year through 1926 and the following year was transferred to the Antwerp - Southampton - Cherbourg - Quebec route. She commenced her final voyage from Antwerp on 7/9/1929 and was then laid up after making a total of 190 round voyages on the North Atlantic. On 17/6/1930 she was sold to the Stavanger Shipbreaking Co. and was scrapped. The owner of the Sola Strand Hotel bought the lounge from the shipbreakers and incorporated it into his hotel as the Montroyal Ballroom. The beautiful woodwork is still a feature of this building which now houses the Norwegian School for Hotel Management. [North Atlantic Seaway, vol.3,p.1309] [Canadian Pacific by George Musk]

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Empress Of Britain (2)

The turbine ship EMPRESS OF BRITAIN (II) was built for the Canadian Pacific Line by John Brown & Co Ltd, Glasgow (ship #530), keel laid 28 November 1928, launched 11 June 1930. 42,348 tons; 231,8 x 29,7 meters (length x breadth); 3 funnels, 2 masts, cruiser stern; quadruple-screw propulsion (single-reciprocating steam turbine engines), service speed 24 knots (maximum 25.5 knots); passenger accommodation: 465 in 1st class, 260 in tourist class, and 470 in 3rd class; crew of 740. 27 May 1931, maiden voyage, Southampton-Cherbourg-Quebec. May-June 1931, record passages, Cherbourg-Father Point (both ways). May 1936, passenger accommodation: cabin, tourist, 3rd class. 17 June 1939, transported King George VI and Queen Elizabeth from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Southampton after their Canadian tour. 2 September 1939, last voyage, Southampton-Quebec (100 roundtrip voyages on the North Atlantic). 25 November 1939, troop transport. 26 October 1940, bombed and set on fire by German aircraft 70 miles northwest of Ireland; taken in tow by the Polish destroyer BURZA; 28 October 1940, torpedoed twice by German U-Boot U32 at 55.16 N 09.50 W; 49 dead [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 3 (1979), , pp. 1298 (photograph) and 1319, vol. 5 (1980), p. 1835 (photograph);; Arnold Kludas, Die grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt; Eine Dokumentation,Bd. 3: 1924-1935 (Oldenburg/Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling, c1973), pp. 166-167 (photograph)].. -

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Empress Of Canada

The turbine ship EMPRESS OF CANADA was built by Fairfield Co Ltd, Glasgow (ship #528), and launched for the Canadian Pacific Line on 17 August 1920. 21,517 tons; 191,10 (199,02) x 23,74 meters/627 (653) x 77.9 feet (length x breadth); 3 funnels, 2 masts, clipper stern; twin-screw propulsion (steam turbine, single-reduction engines), service speed 18 knots, 20 maximum; passenger accommodation: 488 in 1st class, 106 in 2nd class, 238 in 3rd class, and 926 in steerage (Asian voyages); crew of 530. 5 May 1922, maiden voyage, Falmouth-Suez Canal-Hong Kong-Vancouver; then in the Vancouver-Yokahama service. 1 November 1928, sailed Vancouver- Glasgow; single-reduction steam turbine engines replaced by double- reduction steam turbines. 28 August 1929, 1 roundtrip voyage, Southampton-Cherbourg-Quebec. 18 September 1929, sailed Southampton- Cherbourg-New York-Panama Canal-Vancouver; returned to Vancouver-Yokahama service. 29 November 1939, troop transport. 14 March 1943, bound from Durban to England, torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine LEONARDO DA VINCI, at lat 01 13 S, lon 09 57, approximately 400 miles south of Cape Palmas, West Africa; 392 lives lost [Arnold Kludas, Die grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt; Eine Dokumentation, Bd. 2: 1913-1923 (2nd ed.; Oldenburg/Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling, c1973), pp. 146-147 (2 photographs); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 1318]. -

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Empress Of Canada (liner)

By the end of 1939 the historic British Columbia Naval Base of Esquimalt was on a full -time war footing, with tremendous expansion of its facilities under way. Young men from all parts of Canada poured in for training and staid Victoria became a lively Navy town. The Canadian Pacific trans - Pacific liners Empress of Canada of 1922 and Empress of Japan (2) of 1930 were requisitioned by the Admiralty as troopships and refitted for their wartime roles at Esquimalt, the name of the latter vessel being changed to Empress of Scotland (2) following Japan's entry into the war. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 474.

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Empress Of Canada (liner)

The Canadian Pacific trans -Pacific liner Empress of Canada was torpedoed and sunk March 13 by a German submarine in the South Atlantic while on a voyage from Durban, South Africa for the Urilted Kingdom in trooping service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 519.

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Empress Of Canada (liner)

Canadian Pacific Railways, having received back its splendid trans -Pacific liners Empress of Russia and Empress of Asia (late in 1919), launched the twin-screw turbine liner Empress of Canada at the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Govan in August, 1920. This 21,516ton vessel with dimensions of 625 x 78 x 42 entered service 21 months later. No additions were made to the railway company's B. C. coast fleet in the immediate post-war years. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 308.

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Empress Of Canada (liner)

The Empress of Canada, launched at Govan in 1920, was a vessel of 21,516 tons with dimensions of 625 x 78 x 42, her twin screws being driven by eight geared turbines of 26,000 shaft horsepower, giving her a speed of 20 knots. She had accommodations for 1,650 passengers and carried a crew of 560. Although larger than the Empress of Asia and Empress of Russia, she was designed along similar lines, with cruiser stern, straight bow, three funnels and two masts. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922. H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 318.

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Empress Of Canada (liner)

The Empress of Canada returned to Vancouver late in 1929 after having been re -engined by the Fairfield yard, her speed being notably increased. The two vessels in 1930 inaugurated a Honolulu service, stopping there on their outward voyages to the Orient and returning direct. The Empress of France had substituted for the Canada during her absence. A pair of handsome sister-ships, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Joan, also arrived at their home port of Victoria from Oreat Britain in 1930 for the C. P. R. coastal service, also products of the Fairfield yard. These 365-foot three-funnel vessels were driven by twin screws and quadruple -expansion engines giving them a service speed of 16V2 knots. First used in the famous C. P. R. midnight sailings between Victoria and Vancouver, they also became known to thousands of tourists as the last of the, C. P. R. steamers to operate on the winter Seattle-Victoria run. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-1930, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seatt

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Empress Of Canada (steamer)

A most spectacular marine mishap occurred in 1929, although it was fortunately not one resulting in fatalities or heavy damage. Inbound from the Orient during the season of October fogs, the steamship Empress of Canada strayed from her course and grounded on Albert Head, her bows shoving over the rocks and almost into a farmer's pasture, scattering his cows in a state of great surprise and agitation. She remained fast for two days, with much concern that a southeasterly gale might come up, in which case she would doubtless have been lost. Fortunately the weather remained favorable and the Salvage King and other vessels were successful in towing her off. Following repairs at the Esquimalt graving dock she returned to her trans -Pacific run. As a result of this accident the Canadian government subsequently erected a lighthouse and fog signal at Albert Head. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 404.

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Empress Of China

See PRINZ FRIEDRICH WILHELM.

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Empress Of China

Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington., I, p. 145. Winther, Oscar. Old Oregon Country., p. 16. Thomas Vaughan. The Western Shore. Oregon Country Essays., p. vii. Royal Mail Steamer, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 383.

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Empress Of China (liner)

The three original Empress liners of the Canadian Pacific's trans -Pacific mail service, although now veterans of well over a decade of the most demanding service, still performed superbly. In July the English mails reached Vancouver late, the Empress of China being held at her pier three days and two hours beyond her scheduled sailing time. This amazing ship then proceeded to make up three days time on the voyage to Hong Kong, where she arrived seven hours and 37 minutes within her contract time. The splendid Empresses could not afford to let down, for in July the first of the new Pacific Mail liners, offering competitive service from San Francisco, went into commission. The Korea salied from Yokohama on her second eastern crossing with orders to omit the usual call at Honolulu and make every effort to capture the Pacific speed record. She arrived at San Francisco on October 28, having covered 4,537 miles in 10 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes, maintaining an average speed of 17.8 knots. This was the highest avera

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Empress Of China (liner)

The Empress of China was caught in a typhoon two days out of Yokohama in December, losing some of her upperworks and a lifeboat, which was smashed by a heavy sea. Two seamen were caught by a sea which swept her decks and, although saved from going overboard, they later died of the injuries sustained in the accident. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1902, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 84.

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Empress Of China (liner)

The first loss among the three original White Empresses of the Canadian Pacific trans -Pacific service occurred in 1911 with the stranding of the Empress of China on Mera Reef, Tokyo Bay, on July 27, 1911, the accident taking place near the scene of the Dakota's loss in the spring of 1907. The liner was steaming at three-quarter speed through fog when she struck. As soon as word of her plight reached Yokohama, her port of destination, the cruisers Aso and Soya were dispatched to her assistance by the Japanese ministry of marine, the warships taking off her passengers and mails. The Empress was refloated in December after determined efforts which included the dredging of a new channel to deep water. She was not returned to service, however, being sold in September of the following year by the underwriters to Sasso Shojiro, a copper and brass dealer of Yokohama, for $65,000 for scrapping. Although the yachtlike Empresses were still handsome and dependable vessels, they had long since been exceeded in size and

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Empress Of France (1)

The first "Empress of France" was built by Wm Beardmore & Co Ltd.,Glasgow in 1913 as the "Alsatian" for the Allan Line. She was an 18,481 gross ton ship, length 571.4ft x beam 72.4ft, two funnels, two masts, four screws and a speed of 18 knots. She was the first North Atlantic liner with a cruiser stern. There was accommodation for 287-1st, 504-2nd and 848-3rd class passengers. Launched on 22/3/1913 as the "Alsatian" she left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to St John NB for the Allan Line on 17/1/1914. On 22/5/1914 she commenced her first Liverpool - Quebec voyage and on 17/7/1914 started her last voyage on this service. On 7/8/1914 she became an Armed Merchant Cruiser and joined the 10th Cruiser Squadron patrolling off the Shetland Islands. She became flagship for Admiral De Chair and later for Vice Admiral Tucker and was one of the first ships to be fitted with the new wireless direction finding apparatus. After the squadron was retired in 1917, she was returned to Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, who now managed the combined Allan line and Canadian Pacific fleets. On 28/9/1918 she commenced her first voyage from Liverpool to Canada and after a second voyage on this service, was refitted at Glasgow. She was renamed "Empress of France" on 4/4/1919 and on 26th Sept. that year commenced her first voyage under her new name from Liverpool to Quebec. On 3/5/1922 she commenced sailing between Southampton, Cherbourg and Quebec and on 31/5/1922 between Hamburg, Southampton, Cherbourg and Quebec. In 1924 she was converted from coal to oil fuel, and in July 1926 her accommodation became 1st, 2nd, tourist and 3rd class and was altered again Jan.1927 to 1st, tourist and 3rd class. On 29/9/1927 she started her last Hamburg - Southampton - Cherbourg - Quebec voyage and on 8/9/1928, her last Southampton - Cherbourg - Quebec voyage. On 31/10/1928 she left Southampton for Suez, Hong Kong and Vancouver and subsequently sailed on the Pacific until 17/10/1929 when she left Hong Kong for Liverpool. She started her final voyage from Southampton to Cherbourg and Quebec on 2/9/1931 and in Sept. of that year was laid up in the Clyde. She was scrapped at Dalmuir on 20/10/1934. In total, she had made 99 Atlantic voyages, 5 trans-Pacific, and 8 cruises as well as her war service. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3,p.1313] [Canadian Pacific - 100 years by George Musk]

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Empress Of France (2)

See DUCHESS OF BEDFORD.

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Empress Of India

See PRINZ FRIEDRICH WILHELM.

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Empress Of India (liner)

The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of India, not the fastest of the three white sisters of the railway company's trans - Pacific fleet (Empress of Japan was holder of the Blue Ribbon of the Pacific), received much acclaim in 1896 when she was popularly credited with having won a race with the United States cruiser Olympia, which had attained a speed of 21.69 knots on builder's trials in 1894. About 5:00 p. m. on January 22 the Olympia left Kobe for Nagasaki, the Em- press of India leaving for the same destination at 9:25 p. m. The next day, in beautiful weather, the liner overhauled and passed the cruiser, the achievement being duly noted in her log. The Empress was engaged in her frequent occupation of making up time with the English mails, while the Olympia, in those long-vanished days of stringent naval economies, was steaming at reduced speed with boiler pressures well below the maximum. There is little reason to believe the Olympia could not have passed the Empress of India had her commander been so incl

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Empress Of India (liner)

In March the C. P. R. liner Empress of India, on a regular trans-Pacific voyage in charge of Capt. Marshall, encountered what was probably the most severe storm she was ever to meet with; much of her bridge was carried away and considerable damage done to her upperworks and boats, but she was thoroughly capable of weathering almost anything the ocean had to offer and, as usual, delivered her mails at Vancouver on time. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1898. H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 42.

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Empress Of India (liner)

In the British Columbia Historical Quarterly, January, 1940, W. Kay Lamb writes of the Empress liners, In the course of years they established a record for adherence to schedule which has probably never been equalled on the seven seas. Though the mail contract called for only a twenty-eight-day service, the Canadian Pacific increased this to a departure every twenty-one days between April and September, which raised the number of sailings to fifteen per year. Yet for no less than fifteen years - from 1891 to 1906 - no Empress ever missed a sailing or was ever penalized for the late arrival of her mails. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1898. H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 43

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Empress Of India (royal Mail Steamship)

The new and the old, Canadian Pacific Railway's Royal Mail Steamship Empress of Indian passing the wreck of the steamer Beaver near Vancouver, in 1890. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Empress of India at the docks at Vancouver. PM (October, 1891), p. 3.

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Empress Of India (steamer)

The steamship Empress of India first of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Royal Mail line to the Orient, arrived at Vancouver, April 28th, in charge of Capt. O. Marshall. The dimensions of the India, as well as of her sister ships, the Empress of Japan and Empress of China, are, length four hundred and eighty-five feet, beam fifty-one feet, depth of hold thirty-six feet, gross tonnage 5,700. They were built by the Naval Construction & Armament Company at Barrow-in-Furness, James Fowler superintending the construction of the machinery. The Empress of India sailed from Liverpool, February 7th, with a large party of excursionists bound around the world, going first to Gibraltar, thence to Naples and Marseilles, through the Suez Canal, stopping at Ceylon and Colombo, then across the Bay of Bengal to Penang, thence to Singapore, China and Japan, and from there across the Pacific. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound.

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Empress Of Ireland

The "Empress of Ireland" was involved in one of the worst peacetime shipping disasters of all time. She was a 14,191 gross ton ship, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co.Ltd, Glasgow in 1906 for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co, which later became CP Ships. Her details were - length 548.9ft x beam 65.7ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 18 knots. There was accommodation for 310-1st, 470-2nd and 750-3rd class passengers. She was a sister ship to the first "Empress of Britain". Launched on 27/1/1906, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Quebec on 29/6/1906. She made a total of 95 round voyages on the North Atlantic service, but on 29/5/1914, she was sunk in collision. The collision occurred at approx 2.30am when most of the 1,054 passengers and 413 crew were asleep. A few hours out of Quebec, while in the St Lawrence River, she was rammed and sunk by the 6,000 ton Norwegian collier "Storstad". In less than 15 minutes the liner sank with the loss of 1014 lives, including a large contingent of Salvation Army delegates who were on their way to a conference in the UK, and within four miles of the riverbank. Over 400 were saved by the "Eureka" and the "Lady Evelyn". There was much conflicting evidence given at the subsequent enquiry, but it was established that the two vessels had sighted each other when more than three miles apart, before fog descended rapidly. When next seen, the collier, having altered course, was only feet away and collision was unavoidable. In 1964, the wreck was located by skin divers and many items from the wreck were salved and are now preserved at the Musee Maritime Bernier, L'Islet, Quebec. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.3,p.1309] [Canadian Pacific 100 years by George Musk}

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Empress Of Japan

Capt. Samuel Robinson, master of the C. P. R. transPacific liner Empress of Japan, retired in 1931. He was captain of Empress of Australia in 1923 when she was tied up at Yokohama during the great earthquake of that year, he and his officers and crew performing valiant rescue work. Empress of Japan, in April, had reached Victoria from the Orient breaking all speed records for the North Pacific crossing from Yokohama and carrying the King and Queen of Siam, the ruler being on his way to the eastern United States for an eye operation. Also on board for that memorable voyage was General Sir Arthur Currie, chancellor of Canada's famed McGill University, who was once a country school teacher at Sidney, near Victoria, and later a Victoria real estate salesman before entering World War I service and rising to command of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1931, The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 410.

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Empress Of Japan

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Empress Of Japan (2) (liner)

Although new construction was light during this period, a few notable vessels made their appearance at Northwest ports in 1929 and 1930. The most important was the 26,000 -ton twin-screw turbine liner Empress of Japan (2), launched by Fairfield at Govan in 1929 and completed in 1930 for the trans-Pacific service of the Canadian Pacific. This splendid three-stacker, propelled by six turbines of 30,000 horsepower at a r-rwsing speed of 24 knots, compared favorably with any of the Atlantic liners and was the undisputed queen of the Pacific, being the largest, fastest and most luxurious vessel operating from a Pacific Coast port, and maintaining that record until the advent of the postWorld War II liners of the P. & 0. - Orient Lines. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-1930, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior, 1966.

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Empress Of Japan (liner)

With the arrival of the large new liners at Vancouver the last of the gallant pioneer Empresses, the slim, clipperbowed Empress of Japan was laid up, having been in commission for a generation with her original engines and boilers, having crossed the Pacific 315 times, and having held the speed record on that ocean for 22 years. It seems fair to say that the exploits of the first Empress of Japan on the Pacific deserve to take a place in maritime history with those of the legendary Mauretania which defended the Blue Ribbon of the Atlantic for a similar period of years. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922. H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 318.

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Empress Of Japan (liner)

The long idle Pacific greyhound of the 1890's, Empress of Japarn was scrapped at North Vancouver, her graceful figurehead being enshrined at Stanley Park, Vancouver, where it may still be seen. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 376.

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Empress Of Japan (liner)

On January 1, 1911, it was noted that the Empress of Japan had completed her 100th round voyage between British Columbia and the Orient. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 186.

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Empress Of Japan (royal Mail Steamship)

Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 390.

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Empress Of Russia

The "Empress of Russia" was built by Fairfield & Co, Govan in 1912 for Canadian Pacific, she was a 16,810 gross ton ship, length 570ft x beam 68ft, three funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 19 knots. There was accommodation for 284-1st, 100-2nd and 800-steerage class passengers. Launched on 28.8.1912, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool for Hong Kong on 1/4/1913. She then commenced sailings to Vancouver via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama. On 22.8.1914 she was requisitioned at Hong Kong and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser. Used to blockade German merchant ships in the Philippines, and later transferred to the Indian Ocean. On 13.11.1914 she met the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and took aboard 230 survivors from the German cruiser "Emden" and was later used for patrol duties in the Red Sea. She was paid off at Bombay in October 1915 and returned to Hong Kong for refit before being returned to the Pacific service on 12.2.1916. In 1918 she was requisitioned again and used to transport US troops across the Atlantic, and finally left Liverpool on 12.1.1919 for Havre, and Suez to Hong Kong. She then returned to the trans Pacific service and made 310 crossings before being again requisitioned in 1940 as a troopship. She was used on the UK - Freetown - Cape Town - Suez route and returned via Cape Town - Newport News and Halifax to bring Canadian troops to England. In 1943 she was used to support the North Africa landings and later the same year made a special voyage to Gothenburg to exchange prisoners of war. After various trooping duties, she was laid up at Gareloch until June 1945 when she was sent to Barrow in Furness to be refitted for the repatriation of Canadian troops after the war. However, on 8th September she was gutted by fire, declared a total loss and scrapped. [Canadian Pacific-100 Years by George Musk] -

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Again war service of various types claimed vessels well known in Northwest maritime trade. Another of the beautiful three-funneled white Empresses of the Vancouver-Oriental service Empress of Russia, was requisitioned late in the year after completing her 307th crossing and departed from the Pacific, never to return. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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Empress Of Russia (liner)

The two great new Empress liners, still under construction for the Canadian Pacific trans - Pacific service, had the interesting misfortune of being in collision with each other at Glasgow prior to their completion. The Empress of Asia and Empress of Russia were at the fitting-out dock of the Fairfield yards when a heavy gale struck the area in December. The Empress of Russia broke her moorings and drifted afoul of her sister. Both vessels were considerably damaged about the upperworks. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 212.

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Empress Of Russia (liner)

By far the finest of the new vessels to enter service to the Pacific Northwest in 1913 were the splendid new Canadian Pacific trans-Pacific liners Empress of Russia and Empress of Asia, both with dimensions of 570 x 68 x 42 (their overall length being 600 feet), fitted with four steam turbines of 19,000 shaft horsepower driving quadruple screws, and six double-ended and four single-ended coal fired boilers. These handsome three-funnelled steamships were the first large liners to be built with cruiser sterns. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p224. The Empress of Russia, 16,810 tons, was launched by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. at Govan August 28, 1912, leaving Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Vancouver via Suez, Hong Kong and Yokohama on April 1, 1913. She arrived at Victoria from Yokohama on June 7, having taken eight days, 18 hours, 31 minutes, Yokohama Breakwater to William Head - a record which stood for nine years. The f

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Empress Of Russia (steamship)

The Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Russia of the former trans -Pacific fleet was swept by fire on September 8 while being refitted for commercial service at Barrow-in Furness near Liverpool. P. F. Cooke, an engineering officer, and Leslie J. DUlon, ship's electrician, were killed. Fifteen fire companies fought the fire for nine hours before it was brought under control, and the liner was so badly damaged she was subsequently broken up for scrap at the same port. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1945, H.W.McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 527.

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Empress Of Scotland

See KAISERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA.

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Enetai (ferry)

Three of the older Washington State Ferries vessels, displaced by the arrival of the new super ferries, were sold during 1968. These were the steel-hulled Enetai and Willapa (ex-Santa Rosa and Fresno of 1927), which had been running-mates on the Seattle-Bremerton route and the wooden Leschi of 1913. The Enetai was sold to Donald Clair of Oakland (Marine Diesel Supply & Equipment Co.), for $21,768 to replace the Chippewa, which had been badly damaged by fire. The Willapa went to the Gentry Development Co. of Martinez, California for $22,222. Jim Poor of Cordova was high bidder among the 16 who made offers on the Leschi and purchased her for $20,190. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.45.

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Erawan (freighter)

The 461-foot Sunderlund-built British freighter Erawan and the new 485-foot Japanese container ship Sun Diamond collided in the early morning hours of September 25 at the mouth of Burrard Inlet. The Sun Diamond was outbound from Vancouver for Seattle, while the Erawan was inbound in ballast. The Japanese vessel struck the Erawan amidships, tearing out a large section of her hull on the starboard side between holds 3 and 4 and rupturing fuel tanks which spilled more than 100 tons of bunker oil into English Bay, some of it contaminating nearby beaches. The two vessels were locked together for an hour with the tug Gulf Jean holding them from drifting ashore. At a later hearing it was determined that radical change of course to port by the Erawan was the direct cause of the collision, but that both vessels were moving at excessive speed, the Sun Diamond was cutting too close to the Point Grey bell-buoy, leaving insufficient sea-room for an inbound vessel to pass to starboard, neither vessel sounded whistle signal

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Erik Foss (tug)

The Erik Foss was built in 1908 at Bandon, Oregon, by J. H. Price and was given the name Gleaner. She was 97 feet in length with a 23 foot beam. She worked for the Gardiner Mill Company of Gardiner, Oregon and perhaps other owners and was sent to San Francisco for towing work there. After several changes in ownership the Gleaner worked for the War Shipping Administration during World War II and was eventaully purchased by Foss and given the name Erik Foss. In May of 1976 the vessel was drydocked and put into lay-up. In March of 1977 she was sold and was regiven the name Gleaner by her new owners. Michael Skalley, The Erik Foss, Foss, ninety years of towboating, Seattle: Superior, 1981, p. 183.

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Erik Foss (tugboat)

Maritime memories, built in 1908, acquired by Foss in 1952, The Marine Digest. June 29, 1985, p. 6. This vessel was sold in 1979 and later renamed Gleaner. (il).

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Ernest F Ladd (tug)

This addition to the B. C. towing fleet typified the dramatic post-war progress in this industry north of the international boundary. Lloyd B. Gore purchased the 119-foot Mikimiki tug Ernest F. Ladd of 1,200-horsepower, built at Quincy, Mass. in 1944 for the U. S. Navy, and added her to his Young & Gore Tugboat Co. fleet as the Lloyd B. Gore. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1949, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 563.

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Ernest H. Meyer (freighter)

The Ernest H. Meyer (launched by Albina at Portland in 1918 as the Danish Skjold and taken over by the Shipping Board as Point Lobos), last operated by the Portland Steamship Co., sold to L. G. Gray & Co. of San Francisco and renamed Morlen. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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Ernest Reyer (french Bark)

Wrecked at the mouth of the Quinault River, December, 1901, Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 22.

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Ethomas Crosby, Up And Down The North Pacific Coas

Four master in the Columbia River. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 109.

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Eugene F Moran (tugboat)

Edward M. Brady. Tugs, towboats and towing., p. 35.

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Eureka (freighter)

The Eureka, (the Portland-built former Shipping Board Glendoyle of 1919), sold by the Hammond Lumber Co. to the Transpacific Steamship Co. and placed under Panamanian registry. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.

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Eureka (freighter)

The steel freighter Eureka left San Francisco August 16 with a volatile cargo consisting of 250 tons of blasting powder, 200 tons of gasoline, a large quantity of oil and 56 large carboys of nitric acid. Off Mendocino Head, about two o'clock on the morning of August 19, beset by 50-mile winds and heavy seas, the vessel was set on fire by a carboy of acid which broke loose from its lashings on deck and smashed. In a flash the ropes securing the rest of the acid containers were in flames and the carboys adrift on the deck, the flames fanned by the high wind. The crew, led by Capt. G. Golightly and Chief Mate William Reed, battled the flames on deck, choked by the fumes of hot nitric acid, aware of the cargo of explosives stored just below. They succeeded in getting the carboys of acid overboard and the flames extinguished, bringing the Eureka safely into Bellingham seven days later. Probably few vessels have had a narrower escape from complete disaster. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1907, H. W. McCurdy Ma

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Euterpre (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 21.

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Evergreen State (ferry)

The Evergreen State, Washington State ferry failed to reverse her engines and rammed the Anacortes ferry slip in July causing damage to six cars and to the wingwalls of the pier. Gordon Newell. The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 690-91.

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Ewa (freighter)

William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century,p. 165.

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Expo Spirit (hovercraft)

New Expo Flight Takes off, Marine Digest. May 31, 1986, p. 19-20.

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3 (Submarine) - Another notable development in the evolution of vessel construction in the Northwest was the completion by the Seattle Construction & Drydock Co. early in the summer of 1912 of two F Class submarines, the F- 3 and F- 4, for the United States Navy. Both submarines successfully passed their tests in June, attaining surface speeds somewhat in excess of 14 knots on the mile run and of slightly better than 13 knots for the 24-hour endurance trials. The craft were given diving tests to a maximum of 200 feet, carrying crews of only eight picked men for the deeper dives. Although meeting the standards of that time, the F boats, equipped with gasoline engines, were soon made obsolete by the rapid emergence of the diesel engine in the next few years, and their service with the fleet was limited. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 207.

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F. A. Kilburn (steam Schooner)

The passenger-carrying steam schooner F. A. Kilburn, a 997 ton wooden vessel with 1,000 horse power (Fulton) triple-expansion engine built by Bendixsen at Fairhaven, Calif. in 1904, was sold by the Maritime Investment Co. of San Francisco to the North Pacific Steamship Co. for Portland- San Francisco service, this company also acquiring the 484-ton steam schooner Eureka, also fitted for the passenger and general cargo trade, built by William Muller at Wilmington, Calif. in 1900. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 202.

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F. A. Warner (steamer)

The Lake type Shipping Board 2,333-ton steel steamship F. A Warner, built at Ecorse, Michigan in 1918 as Cotton Hand was sold by the Pacific States Lumber Co. of San Francisco to the Coos Bay Lumber Co., being renamed Lumberman. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-1930, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior, 1966..

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F. B. Jones (steamer)

The 143 -foot sternwheel steamer F. B. Jones, built at Portland in 1901 and one of the units of the Willamette & Columbia River Transportation Co. fleet taken over by the Shaver interests, was abandoned at Portland. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 458.

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F. B. Jones (steamer)

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F. B. Jones (steamer)

F. B. Jones, 303-ton freight and towing steamer, 143 feet in length, by T. Ellingson for the Willamette and Columbia River Transportation Company. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1901. W. H. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 69.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1901. W. H. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 69.

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F. B. Jones (steamer)

The stern-wheel steamer F. B. Jones, while on a night run on the lower Columbia in November, was rammed and sunk by the tank steamer Asuncion, being later raised and repaired. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1907, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 137.

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F. B. Jones (sternwheeler)

1907 Sternwheel, 303 tons, 143' long, built at Portland in 1901. Rammed and sunk by tanker Asuncion on lower Columbia River; abandoned at Portland in 1937. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana, Oregon Shipwrecks.1984, p.203-208

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F. D. J. V. 104 (tug)

F.D.J.V. 104 and F.D.J.V. 105, unusual shallow-draft pusher type tugs, designed by E. A. Drake and built by Benson's Shipyard, Coal Harbor, for Foundation-Dravo Joint Ventures. The 40 x 16-foot vessels, powered by twin 340-horsepower diesel engines, were designed to handle self-dumping earth fill barges at the High Arrow Dam project on the upper Columbia River and were transported to the site in sections for reassembly. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XX.

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F. E. Lovejoy (freighter)

The most notable vessel to be added to the inland freight fleet of Puget Sound, the welded steel diesel F. E. Lovejoy, was launched from the Reliable Welding Works yard at Olympia in April for the Puget Sound Freight Lines. The new craft, with an overall length of 178.4, beam of 36 and molded depth of 15 feet, displaced 1,500 tons when fully loaded (800 tons) arid was powered by a six -cylinder direct reversible Fairbanks-Morse diesel developing 1,200 horsepower at 300 revolutions per minute. On her trials in July she maintained an average speed of 11.4 knots with a displacement of over 1,000 tons. Loading was accomplished by a 10-ton marine elevator providing access to the two cargo decks and gasoline lift - trucks of three - ton capacity designed to pick up loaded lift boards on the pier, drive them onto the elevator, and stow them in the cargo spaces. Two large king posts with cargo booms just forward of the bridge provided cargo-handling facilities for lumber, pipe and other commodities not adaptable to l

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F. E. Lovejoy (motor Vessel)

Another colorful era of Northwest shipping history ended in June when Puget Sound Freight Lines' motor vessel F. E. Lovejoy, last of a fleet of inland freightboats which once numbered in the scores and plied the length and breadth of Puget Sound, was placed in layup on Lake Union. She was moored alongside her old running-mate, the Indian, and the Warrior, which had been converted to a barge. All three had been displaced by tugs and more modern barges, and the company's fleet of 175 trucks on shore. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1971, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.94.

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F. G. Reeve (passenger Boat)

F. G. Reeve, wooden passenger and freight steamer, 87 tons, 101.7 x 22.5 x 6.4, with 325-horsepower triple-expansion engine, by John Martinolich, Dockton, for the Washington Route of Capt. F. G. Reeve; the engine of this steamer was originally in the Inland Flyer (later the Mohawk), which was dismantled in 1916, the hull serving for a time as a fish receiving barge at Neah Bay. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1916, H. S. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966,

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F. M. Slade (schooner)

The four-masted schooner F. M. Slade of 1900, after stranding on the Peruvian coast in December near the termination of a voyage from Grays Harbor, was sold to Peruvian owners and placed back in service as the Helvetia. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p225.

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F. Missler

The F. Missler is one of the more famous "ghost" ships in emigration/immigration lore. No ship by that name existed. The confusion stems from the fact that F. Missler was a 19th century travel agent operating out of Bremen who established a good working relationship with the North German Lloyd shipping line. Probably your best bet is to obtain a list of vessels arriving at Quebec on the date in question, determine which of those took on passengers in Bremen and search the respective lists to find your relation. -

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F. P. Armstrong (steamer)

The well known navigator of the Columbia's headwaters, Capt. Arm- strong, built the stem-wheeler F. P. Armnstrong, 126 tons, 81 x 20 x 4, at Spillimacheen for Burns & Jordan. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p224.

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F. P. Green (schooner)

An exciting episode occurred at Port Angeles in 1862. The schooner F. P. Green, Capt. Edward Howard, was seized by Deputy Collector Moore. Howard had just bought the schooner in San Francisco, and intended to have her papers changed at Port Angeles; but, as he arrived late at night, the Deputy Collector told him to come up in the morning. Before daylight the Shubrick was alongside and towed the schooner to the cutter Joe Lane, then lying in the harbor. Captain Howard was informed that the schooner had been confiscated, and ordered ashore. Bonds were offered but were refused. As Howard was the owner of the schooner and cargo, he determined to secure the vessel; so that night about eleven o'clock he quietly borrowed the custom-house boat and sculled out to the craft, locked the marshal in the cabin, woke the crew, slipped the cable, and set sail for Victoria, where he waited for the return of Collector Smith, who was in Washington, the Deputy Collector at Port Angeles meanwhile offering a reward of $1,000 for t

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F. S. Loop (steam Schooner)

The steam schooner F. S. Loop of 1907, following numerous changes of ownership, passed to Dr. W. J. Ross, the pet food manufacturer of Long Beach, California. Her steam engine replaced with a Liberty gasoline aircraft engine of World War I vintage, she was placed in operation off the Baja California coast canning sea lions for dogfood under a concession from the Mexican government. Her weird power plant, operating through an elaborate arrangement of reduction gears, was able to move her, but the fuel bills were said to be of such an appalling nature that she was actually operated in the dogfood trade under a pair of square sails from yards on her fore and mainmast; thus ending her career as what might be described a motor brig. She was laid up at San Francisco the following year and subsequently sold to Mexican owners as a barge. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 455.

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F. S. Loop (steam Schooner)

The steam schooner F. S. Loop, from