Humaconna (steam Tug)

The Cary-Davis Towing Co. of Seattle late in the year purchased the powerful ocean-going steam tug Humaconna from the Shipping Board. Constructed at Superior, Wisconsin in 1919 at a cost of nearly $300,000, her 1,000-horsepower engine gave her a top speed of 16 knots, making her the fastest tug in commercial service on the North Pacific. She was also fitted with powerful wireless equipment of the same type and range as that used at the time in the American trans-Atlantic liners Leviathan and George Washington. For some time the Shipping Board had employed the Humaconna in wrecking and salvage work in the North Sea, Mediterranean, and in the waters of the Azores and Bermuda. More recently she had been used in towing on the Atlantic Coast. Her dimensions were 150 x 28 x 16.4. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922, H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 322.

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Humaconna (tug)

The steel ocean steam tug Humaconna, one of the largest and most powerful of the Sound towing fleet, was sold by the Merrill & Ring Lumber Co. of Seattle to the Western Pacific Railway and was transferred to San Francisco Bay car barge service, replacing the railroad tug Virgil Bogue, sunk there in a recent collision. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 473.

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Humaconna (tug)

The big ocean steam tug Humaconna of the Cary-Davis Tug & Barge Co. handled the giant Benson Lumber Co. rafts on the coastwise tow from Astoria to San Diego, the rafts containing approximately 6,000,000 feet of logs and carrying additional deckloads of 100,000 feet or more of lumber or poles. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1923, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 336.

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Humaconna (tugboat)

Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 209.

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