Hassler (steamer)

The Pacific & Alaska Transportation Co. was formed by parties who acquired the old government steamer Hassler, an iron vessel condemned and sold by the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey service. This craft was renamed Clara Nevada (apparently in honor of a well -known Western actress of that period) and placed in service between Seattle, Skagway and Dyea with a capacity of 100 first-class, 100 steerage and 300 tons of freight. This enterprise was short lived, as she completed only one round trip before providing one of the worst of the gold rush marine disasters. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1898, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 35.

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