| Acropolis |
See WASHINGTON (4). |
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| Aleppo |
The "Aleppo" was built by J&G.Thomson, Glasgow in 1864 for Cunard Line's Mediterranean service. She was a 2,057 gross ton ship, length 292.5ft x beam 38.2ft, clipper stem, one funnel, two masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. Launched on 1/11/1864, she started her first North Atlantic voyage on 15/9/1865 when she sailed from Liverpool for Halifax and New York. Between 1865 and 1871 she sailed mostly between Liverpool, Queenstown (Cobh) and New York, but made many voyages via Boston. Her last Liverpool - Queenstown - New York voyage started on 9/5/1871 and on 20/6/1871 she commenced the first of four Liverpool - Queenstown - Boston voyages. From 1872 she sailed mostly between Liverpool and Mediterranean ports, but between 1877 - 1892 made at least 16 North Atlantic sailings. Fitted with compound engines in 1880 by J.Jack & Co, Liverpool and fitted with triple-expansion engines by J.Howden & Co, Glasgow in 1890. She started her last North Atlantic voyage on 24/3/1892 when she left Liverpool for Boston and was eventually scrapped at Preston in 1909. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.148-9] - |
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| Anapo |
See ARAWA. |
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| Annapolis.uss |
- William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, William L. Cargoes. Matson's first century in the Pacific, p. 11. |
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| Apokak |
- Built in Tacoma in 1918 for Abner Sund of Seattle. 33 gross tons. 55.3 feet. # 216183. Merchant Vessels of the United States, 1945, p. 112. |
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| Apollo |
The brig Apollo, built by Heinrich Bosse in Berg, near Bremen, on the Weser River. It was 86 feet in length, 21 feet wide, and was launched on March 31, 1835. The owner was Friedrich Leo Quentell of Bremen, and he was also the owner of the brig Ferdinand. The Apollo made two trips from Bremen to Galveston with passengers that were being transported by the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants to Texas. |
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| Apollo |
- Krause, Aurel. Tlingit Indians. American Ethnological Society, 1956., p. 39. |
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| Apollo |
(Schooner) - The three-masted sharowdraft schooner Apollo (ex-Oregon of 1905), having been fitted with gas engines by the Crowley Launch & Tug Company during the first World War, and later operated in northern trade from Seattle, was sold to Japanese owners, becoming the Apollo Maru of Kobe. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1933, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 423. |
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| Apollo |
(Tug) - Another of the increasingly popular small steel harbor tugs of relatively high horsepower, the 40-foot Apollo fitted with a 380-horsepower Caterpillar engine, was designed by Bob Long and built by Peterson Boat Building Co. at Tacoma for Pioneer Towing of Seattle. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1967, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXXVIII. |
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| Apollo One |
(Incinerator ship) - First U.S. built incinerator ship launched at Tacoma Boat, Marine Digest. (February 25, 1984), p. 11+. Apollo One Completes First Trials, Marine Digest. October 6, 1984, p. 24. Apollo incinerator ships readied for burns. Appollo Two launced last Sunday, Marine Digest July 27, 1985, p. 3. New life for Appollo One, Marine Digest. April 1991, p. 12. Ak-Wa shipyard converting vessel to fish processor, rechristened Dona Karen Marie. |
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| Arrapo |
See ARAWA. |
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| Brender Brothers (power Schooner) |
One of the last of the Puget Sound fleet to return from Bering Sea waters in 1910, the little power schooner Bender Bros., Capt. Louis Knaflich, arrived in Seattle November 18, considerable fear having been felt for her safety. Among the passengers was B. B. Dobbs, pioneer motion picture cameraman, who had spent three years in the north taking motion pictures of walrus, polar bears and reindeer in their natural habitat under sponsorship of the Canadian Club of New York and the American Museum of Natural History. He brought out several thousand feet of valuable documentary film. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910., p. 178. |
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| Bridgeport |
See BRESLAU |
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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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| Burnside (transport) |
The Army transport Burnside, an iron steamer built at Newcastle in 1882 as the British Yeoman, and as the Spanish Rita captured during the Spanish-American War, was converted to a cable-laying ship by the government and stationed on Puget Sound. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1899, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 57. |
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| Calapooya (sloop) |
Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 57. |
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| Callapooya (barge) |
Jansen Marine Corporation of Troutdale, Oregon completed the 200-foot cargo and petroleum barge Callapooya of 700,000-gallon capacity in addition to deck freight capability, for Halvorsen Towing Co. of Seattle, one of the more successful independent tugboat companies of Puget Sound. Fitted with a molded bow to permit ocean towing speeds of 10 knots, the barge was placed in charter service between Puget Sound and southeastern Alaska. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.64. |
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| Calopooya (sloop) |
Built in 1845. Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., II, p. 27. |
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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 Exporter (steamer) |
Canadian steamship, 5400 tons, stranded in the fog on Willapa bar, August 1, 1921. No lives were lost but the freighter eventually broke in two. James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190. |
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| Canadian Exporter (steamship) |
Steamer, 5400 tons stranded on Willapa Bar August 1, 1921. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 157. |
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| Carrier Dove (power Schooner) |
The Carrier Dove, which had gone on the rocks at Otter Point, Cinque Island, Discovery Passage the previous week and was salved, broke away from the steamer Salvor, which had her in tow, and foundered in 75 fathoms off Nanaimo. No one was aboard the Carrier Dove, but valuable salvage machinery went to the bottom with her. The Salvor fouled the tow line in her propeller and narrowly escaped going ashore in the severe gale which was then blowing. The Carrier Dove, a two-masted power schooner of 92 tons, was built at Essex, Mass. in 1884, having been brought to the Coast for the codfishing trade several years before. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 210. |
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| Chrystopolio |
Harry S. Drago. Roads to Empire, p. 154. |
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| Chukotsk (power Schooner) |
The power schooner Chukotsk, was sold in 1927 by Olaf Swenson & Co., Arctic traders, to Capt. 0. 0. Hvatum, repowered with 300-horsepower diesel and continued in Arctic trading service as the Dorothy. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 388. |
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| Citta Di Napoli (1) |
See SILESIA. |
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| Citta Di Napoli (2) |
See MAASDAM (2) . |
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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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| Clarksdale Victory (u.s. Army Transport) |
With a death toll of 49 lives, the worst Pacific Northwest marine disasterof 1947 occurredon November24 with thesinking of the Clarksdale Victory. The steamship struck Hippa Island Reef in the Queen Charlotte group while southboundfrom Whittier in command of 29-year-old Capt. Gerald Laugeson. Shortly after striking, the vessel broke in two under the pounding of 50-foot waves, the after section sinking immediately, carrying 45 of her crew to their deaths. Only four men, including the second and third mates, who had been on the bridge, escaped. The steamship Denali launched a boat in a rescue effort, but it swamped and its eight- man crew barely escaped with their lives. Shore parties from the Coast Guard cutters Wachusett and Citrus later located the four survivors and the bodies of three of the victims. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.p.549. |
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| Cosmopolis (steamer) |
The steamship Cosmopolis went ashore at Bella Bella in May, 1890 while en route from Port Townsend to Wrangel Island with coal. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1890, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. [Written in 1895]., p. 383. |
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| Cosmopolit |
The COSMOPLIT was a brig, a 2-masted, square-rigged sailing vessel, built by Weedermann, Flensburg, in 1853. Dimensions: 63 Commerzlasten; 91,6 x 21,7 x 12,6 Hamburger Fusse (length x beam x depth of hold). Bielbrief [certificate of registry], 5 March 1853, for Abraham Ewout van Dycke, of Hamburg, by whom she was sold to Kornbeck, Flensburg, in 1855. Master: 1853 - J. J. Lewens; 1853-1854 - C. N. C. Nancke; 1854-1855 - E. Becker. Voyages: 1853/54 - Rio Grande do Sul/Rio de Janeiro/Altona; 1854 - Rio de Janeiro/Santos; 1854/55 - Rio de Janeiro.Source: 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. 117. - |
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| Cosmopolite |
According to the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1834/35-1843/44, the bark COSMOPOLITE, 373 tons, was built in New Brunswick in 1833. Master: 1834/35-1839/40 - P[eter] Smith; 1839/40-1841/42 - Trevethen; 1841/42-1843/44 - J. Webber. Owner: Pope Bros. Port of Registry: Plymouth. Port of Survey: 1834/35-1839/40 - Plymouth; 1839/40-1840/41 - Bristol; 1840/41-1843/44 - Plymouth. Destined Voyage: 1834/35-1836/37 - New York; 1836/37-1839/40 - North America; 1839/40-1840/41 - Quebec; 1840/41-1843/44 - North America. The COSMOPOLITE last appears in Lloyd's Register for 1843/44; I have no further information on its later history or ultimate fate. - |
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| Diamond L (power Schooner) |
The small power schooner Diamond L, trading along the Siberian coast from Nome, was crushed in the ice (which formed early and was unusually heavy) on September 21. The schooner's cargo had previously been confiscated and one of her party imprisoned by the Russian authorities. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy. Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 257. |
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| Dupont (explosives Carrier) |
The Dupont the first vessel built on Puget Sound as an explosives carrier, was built at Manitou Beach on Bainbridge Island for the Dupont Co. Built along the lines of a miniature steam schooner, she had a cargo capacity of 54 tons and a length of 53 feet being powered originally with a 30 -horsepower heavy -duty gasoline engine. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 192. |
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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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| Dupont (powder Carrier) |
The gasoline powder carrier DuPont, Capt. Rose, en route from Dupont to Seattle with 50 tons of dynamite, struck a submerged object in the East Waterway at the latter port June 19, and was saved from sinking only by being beached on Harbor Island. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.231. |
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| Eastport (steamer) |
The fine little steamer Eastport was built at Marshfield in 1872 by Hans Reed for Howard & Pool of San Francisco, who at once put her in the coal trade between Coos Bay and the California metropolis. She had excellent passenger accommodations, and carried about four hundred and fifty tons of coal per trip. Capt. George Paton was first in command, and was succeeded by Captain Whitney, who lost the steamer near Point Arena in July, 1875. Alexander McDonald was one of the best known engineers with the steamer (see wreck of Eastport, 1875). E. W. Wright, Remarkable Trip of the 'Shoshone,' Willamette and Columbia Transportation Enterprises, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.201. |
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| Eastport (steamer) |
The steamship Eastport, from Coos Bay for San Francisco, in charge of James F. Whitney, captain, Alfred Sheppard, chief engineer, H. McIver, second engineer, A. N. McDonough, first officer, and Henry King, second officer, struck a reef north of Point Arena lighthouse July 23, 1875, during a thick fog. The passengers made a rush for the boat before it could be launched, broke the lashings, and all hands fell into the water. Mrs. John Armstrong and two children lost their lives; her husband, with one child, eleven other passengers and the crew, reached shore in safety. The Eastport was owned by I. L. Poole, R. D. Chandler, George Fitch and Donald Beedle, and was valued at $85,000, with an insurance of $60,000. The wreck was sold to John Rosenfeld for $300. 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.229. |
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| Eastport (steamer) |
The fine little steamer Eastport was built at Marshfield in 1872 by Hans Reed for Howard & Pool of San Francisco, who at once put her in the coal trade between Coos Bay and the California metropolis. She had excellent passenger accommodations, and carried about four hundred and fifty tons of coal per trip. Capt. George Paton was first in command, and was succeeded by Captain Whitney, who lost the steamer near Point Arena in July, 1875. Alexander McDonald was one of the best known engineers with the steamer (see wreck of Eastport, 1875). E. W. Wright, Remarkable Trip of the 'Shoshone,' Willamette and Columbia Transportation Enterprises, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.201. |
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| Eastport (steamer) |
The steamship Eastport, from Coos Bay for San Francisco, in charge of James F. Whitney, captain, Alfred Sheppard, chief engineer, H. McIver, second engineer, A. N. McDonough, first officer, and Henry King, second officer, struck a reef north of Point Arena lighthouse July 23, 1875, during a thick fog. The passengers made a rush for the boat before it could be launched, broke the lashings, and all hands fell into the water. Mrs. John Armstrong and two children lost their lives; her husband, with one child, eleven other passengers and the crew, reached shore in safety. The Eastport was owned by I. L. Poole, R. D. Chandler, George Fitch and Donald Beedle, and was valued at $85,000, with an insurance of $60,000. The wreck was sold to John Rosenfeld for $300. 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.229. |
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| Edith G (power Schooner) |
Late November storms in Alaskan waters did considerable damage to small vessels operating there. Driven ashore November 20 by a southeast gale which caughther in a cove near the Chilkat cannery on Lynn Canal, the little power schooner Edith G. was pounded to pieces on the beach. The Edith G. had been driven ashore at Yakutat the previous spring, her crew giving up all hope of saving her, when a huge wave picked her up and carried her across a sandbar and into the calm waters of a river. She had recently been sold to William C. Wright of Skagway, and was en route for delivery at that port when engine failure forced her into the cove for repairs. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior,1966., p. 257. |
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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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| Expo Spirit (hovercraft) |
New Expo Flight Takes off, Marine Digest. May 31, 1986, p. 19-20. |
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| Export Bay (steamer) |
Edward M. Brady. Tugs, towboats and towing., p. 138. |
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| Exporter (steamer) |
Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 452. |
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| Funstan (military Transport) |
World War II veteran to be scrapped, The Tacoma News Tribune. August10, 1969, p. D-11. |
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| Funstan (transport) |
World War II veteeran to be scrapped, The Tacoma News Tribune. August 19, 1969, p. D-11. |
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| Geebee (power Launch) |
Classic powerboats, Pierce County Magazine. (January, 1982), p. 38. |
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| General M. C. Meigs (troop Transport) |
Early on the same morning that the Dona Anita went down with all hands, the San Francisco tug Gear put out to sea from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the face of gale warnings, towing the 622-foot troop transport Gen. M. C. Meigs, formerly in layup at the Olympia Reserve Fleet and en route to the remaining West Coast reserve fleet at Suisun Bay near San Francisco. No sooner had the tug and tow rounded Tatoosh Island than the wind and seas tore the big two stack transport loose and drove her ashore seven miles south of Cape Flattery. Soon afterward she broke in two against a murderous cluster of pinnacle rocks. Although unmanned, the Meigs was carrying much material from the Olympia Reserve Fleet, including a steel harbor tug chained down on deck forward. The loss of the Meigs and her valuable cargo aroused numerous questions in maritime circles, aside from the basic one of why the Gear, under contract to the U.S. Navy, proceeded to sea in defiance of a Force 8 gale. Several experienced mariners reported seeing |
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| George S Simonds (troop Transport) |
The Admiral Line's H.F. Alexander; later, during World War II operated as a transport, George S. Simonds, The Marine Digest. July 4, 1987, p. 5. (il). |
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| Georgia Transporter (barge) |
The 142-gross ton, 77-foot self-propelled barge Georgia Transporter, a twin-screw vessel of 540 horsepower built in 1963 to load and unload heavy logging and construction equipment on beaches, was purchased from McKenzie & Derrick Co. by Shields Navigation Ltd., an affiliate of Coal Island Ltd. The versatile craft was placed in service with the Shields tugs Dolphin Point and Storm King, operating from the company's Swartz Bay terminal. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.45. |
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| Golden Poppy (ferry Boat) |
One of six wooden electric ferry boats purchased by the Black Ball Line for use on Puget Sound. Built in 1926-27 226.8 x 40 x 15.9 feet with three diesel engines supplying power to two electric drive motors. Upon reaching the Pacific Northwest the name of the vessel was changed to Chetzemoka. As the Chetzemoka she sank off the Washington Coast in the Spring of 1977 while be towed to San Francisco. Grahame F. Shrader, The Black Ball Line. p. 10. |
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| Great Liverpool |
See LIVERPOOL (1). |
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| Green Point (barge) |
The Island Tug & Barge Co. sold the Green Point to Marpole Towing Co., while Vancouver Tug Boat Co. acquired the Bonilla from Moorhead & Pike, renaming her La Bonne.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1941, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior, 1966.. |
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| Green Point (tug) |
The diesel tug Green Point was built at Vancouver by Harbour Towing Company in 1932. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1932, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 417. |
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| Harpooner |
Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., II, p. 48, 70,103. Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington., II, p. 70-71. |
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| Haysport Ii64.5 Ft.built 1906, |
(schooner?)beam 17.6 ft.Seattle, Washington Reg. No. 13412740 tons gross Owner: Henry L.Higgins. Made only one three-month rum running trip, during 1923. Fraser Miles. Slow boat on Rum Row. Madeira Park, British Columbia: Harbour Publishing Company, 1992. |
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| Heliopolis |
See ROYAL GEORGE. |
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| Heliopolis (snag Boat) |
Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 194. |
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| Hellespont |
See QUEBEC. |
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| High Point (uss Hydrofoil) |
Navy Hydrofoil to be formally accepted, The Marine Digest. XLI (July 27, 1963), p. 35. The 115-foot Navy hydrofoil High Point, built by the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. here for the Boeing Co., is expected to be formally accepted by the Navy July 31 after successful acceptance trials in mid-July. The Navy's first operational hydrofoil is 115 feet long with a beam of 31 feet. Her full load displacement is 110 tons and she is desigiled to operate at speeds exceeding 50 miles per hour. |
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| Hoegh Transporter (auto Transporter) |
In recent years, with the growing popularity of small imported automobiles, increasing numbers of efficient but remarkably ugly specialized ships are being seen in Pacific Northwest ports. The largest of this growing fleet of auto transporters, the 694-foot converted tanker Hoegh Transporter, called at Portland to off-load 630 Volkswagens after leaving 1,250 in California ports. Resembling a huge floating box, the Norwegian vessel has a capacity of 3,500 small automobiles on the ten decks housed in the ungainly superstructure between the bridge forward and the engines aft, but her master admitted that she left much to be desired in sea-keeping qualities, since she sails like a kite when the wind comes up. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1971, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.97. |
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| Hoopoe |
See NORWAY (2) . |
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| Hudson Point (patrol Vessel) |
The 95-foot Canadian fisheries patrol vessel Hudson Point was transferred to the Canadian Coast Guard, joining the cutters Ready and Racer in B.C. Coast search and rescue service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.79. |
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| In November The Oregon & Alaska Transportation Co. |
such business and shipping leaders of the community as John McCracken, J. C. Ainsworth and Charles E. Ladd, announcing plans to EUGENE Steamer. An episode rivaling that of the Eliza Anderson expedition in drama and comedy was that of the Columbia River stern wheel steamboat Eugene, a light-draft lightly constructed vessel 140 feet long with engines 12 x 60 inches, built at Portland in 1894 by Capt. F. B. Jones for the route between Portland and the headwaters of the Willamette River. Arrangements were made by the newly-formed Portland & Alaska Trading & Transportation Co. in the late summer for the steamer Bristol, Capt. Mc Int-yre, to tow her from British Columbia to St. Michael for Yukon River service. Setting out in charge of Capt. C. H. Lewis and chief engineer Stearns, the river boat reached Union Bay under her own power, but the Bristol did not arrive as planned and the Canadian customs officials impounded the vessel on various charges. When the ocean steamer finally put in an appearance Capt. Mc Intyre |
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| Indianapolis |
Built at Toledo, Ohio, in 1904. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 209. Washington Magazine. I (March-August 1906., (July, 1906). p. 389. SH, IV, p. 72. Tacoma Municipal Bulletin. (April 20, 1912). (il). Black Ball line ship brought to compete with the Flyer in 1906. Archie Binns, Sea in the Forest p. 115, 117. The Indianapolis was originally built for Great Lakes Service, The Marine Digest. December 3, 1983, p. 18. From Chicago to Seattle by water, 18,000 miles, Washington Magazine. (April 1906), p. 112-117. Maritime Memories, the Indianapolis seemed to have a penchant for running down other vessels, The Marine Digest. April 11, 1987, p. 5. Maritime Memories, converted in 1933 to a single ended steam ferry. Scrapped in 1938. Marine Digest. April 18, 1987, p. 5. (il). |
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| Indianapolis (steamer) |
The Puget Sound express steamer Indianapolis was ex tensively rebuilt at the Lake Washington Shipyards on Lake Washington in 1933 emerging as a single-ended steam ferry with a capacity of 30 automobiles and 750 passengers. A turntable was installed at the after end of the main deck designed to turn automobiles to face the single entrance at the bow, an innovation which did not prove particularly practical. Retaining her 16-knot speed, the Indianapolis made the Edmonds-Port Townsend ferry run on a 90-minute schedule. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1933, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 422. |
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| Indianapolis (steamer) |
The steamer Indianapolis, which had been placed on the Seattle - Tacoma route in May in opposition to the Flyer, on November 12 ran down and sank the steam launch of the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey steamer Explorer in Seattle harbor. Joseph Van Leeuwen, engineer of the launch, and George A. Naylor, a steward aboard the Explorer, were killed. The Indianapolis was running through the fog and it was said that she was not sounding her whistle. Inspectors Whitney and Turner exonerated Capt. John Johnson, who was in charge of the steamer, of any blame. Christmas Season storms on Puget Sound caused accidents to numerous small craft, including the Tacoma passenger launch Eagle, owned and operated by G. H. Elder on the Steilacoom run. Her landing float at Steilacoom broke up, as she was discharging 25 passengers, some of whom were thrown into the bay. There were no fatalities.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1907, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 135. |
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| Indianapolis (steamer) |
The first of three large inland steamers of steel construction purchased on the Great Lakes for the Puget Sound Navigation Co. by Charles E. Peabody and Joshua Green, S. S. Indianapolis, was reported passing into the Strait of Juan de Fuca on February 9. She was brought around from New York by Capt. John Johnson, regularly assigned to command of the Dolphin of the Alaska Steamship Co., with Capt. Dodge as chief officer, Chief Engineer Bishop of the Dirigo and Purser Morgan of the Dolphin assisting him. The Indianapolis was the newest and smallest of the three steamers purchased from the Arnold Transportation Co., having been built by the Craig Shipyards at Toledo, Ohio in 1904 and in service for only about two months on the Chicago -Michigan City route at the time of her purchase. Indianapolis registered 765 tons, with dimensions of 180 x 32 x 18.6, her triple-expansion engine, 18,30,50 x 30, receiving steam at 190 pounds pressure from two coal-fired single-ended Scotch boilers. The engine developed 1,500 hor |
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| Iskum (power Schooner) |
The 80-foot power schooner Iskum of 80 horsepower was built at Vancouver for the Clayuquot Sound Canning Co., fishing during the summers and operated as a cannery tender during the off season. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 206. |
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| James F. Polhemus (dredge Tender) |
Although the shipbuilding industry of the Pacific Northwest was on the threshold of an even greater expansion than during the first World War period, construction in 1939 remained light, consisting largely of government vessels. The 84-foot motor dredge tender James F. Polhemus was completed at a cost of $ 125,000 by the Seattle Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. for the United States Army Engineers at Portland. The new vessel, powered by a 350-horsepower Enterprise diesel engine, was christened by Mrs. Polhemus, wife of James F. Polhemus, principal civilian assistant to the Army Engineers at Portland and originator of the system of jetty installations used along the Pacific Coast, for whom the tender was named. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 472. |
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| John Aspin (transport) |
April 22, 1948 A concrete ship, decommissioned U.S. Army transport of 5000 tons, built in 1944 at Tampa, Florida, 365'x 26'. In tow from Cathlamet to Newport to be used as a revetment for a new dock. She broke from the tow and crashed into the Yaquina Reef where she sank. Portions of her hull are still visible at low tide. She lies 0.65 mile off the outer end of North Yaquina Bay jetty on the Yaquina Reef. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Umpqua River to Salmon River. Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1984, p. 72-75. |
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| John C. Potter |
The wooden ship John C. Potter, 1,244 tons, built at Searsport, Maine in 1869 and operated since 1888 by Charles Nelson & Co., was purchased by the Granby Smelter Co. of British Columbia and converted to a barge. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1903, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 89. |
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| Juteopolis (bark) |
British vessel. One of the best known foreign square riggers on the West Coast around 1900. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 116. K.L. AMES. Sternwheeler. Built in Seattle in 1915. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 210. |
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| Kanaga Native (power Schooner) |
The first of five 46-foot auxiliary power schooners for the Kanaga Ranching Co., Alaska fur producers, was launched by Andrew Berg at Seattle. This was the Kanaga Native, the later vessels being christened Umnak Native, Tenaga Native, Ilak Native and Adak Native. Capt. Walter Johnson, formerly mate of the company's power schooner Iskum under Capt. Bowman, was placed in charge of the Kanaga Native. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 385. |
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| Kate Davenport (bark) |
More of the old Downeast sailing vessels were converted to towed barges in 1909, among them the 1,248-ton Bath-built bark Kate Davenport of 1866, sold to the G. T. Myers Canning Co. of Seattle, who also purchased the Maine-built ship Elwell of 1875 for cannery service, keeping her for a time under sail.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 162. |
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| Kings Point (tugboat) |
Edward M. Brady. Tugs, towboats and towing., p. 34, 124. |
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| La Blanca (powder Boat) |
Powder boat explosion in Narrows rocks all Tacoma, The Tacoma Daily Ledger. August 7, 1928. |
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| Lambert Point (tubgoat) |
Edward M. Brady. Tugs, towboats and towing., p. 127. |
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| Leopoldina |
See BLUCHER. |
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| Liverpool |
Ships that sail to the Port of Tacoma. British ship Liverpool, 3124 tons register. West Coast Trade. 1897 Annual Issue. p. 41. |
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| Liverpool |
Esquimalt received a visit from the celebrated Flying Squadron, including H. B. M. ships Liverpool, Endymion, Liffey, Phoebe, Pearl and Scylla, then on a tour of the world. E. W. Wright, Remarkable Trip of the 'Shoshone,' Willamette and Columbia Transportation Enterprises, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.187. |
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| Liverpool (1) |
The ship S.S.Liverpool was built 1838 at Liverpool Humble & Milcrest yard, in service 1838-1840 1050 tons, 223 x 31 2 funnels, 3 masts, wood hull, side paddle, 7 1/2 knots....34 passengers aft in cabins, 64 passengers foreward in dormitory's...sold 1839 to P. & O. Line and renamed Great Liverpool....wrecked 1846 off Cape Finisterre. |
| Citation: [Posted to The ShipsList by Paul Petersen - 11 October 1997] |
| Liverpool (2) |
The LIVERPOOL was a square-rigged 3-masted sailing ship, built in 1843 by Brown & Bell, of New York. 1077 tons, 175' 6" x 36' 6" x 22' 3" (length x beam x depth of hold). She had the longest continuous line service of any sailing packet: 1843-1849 in the Liverpool New Line, 1849-1855 in the Liverpool Blue Swallowtail Line, and 1855-1880 in the London Red Swallowtail Line [Robert G. Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; The New York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the Cotton Ports (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp. 280-283]. |
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| Liverpool Packet |
Ship LIVERPOOL PACKET, J. Birkett, master; 376 tons; built Boston, in her 9th year; owner: McCalmnt; draught when loaded: 16 feet; port of survey: Liverpool; destined voyage: Philadelphia. Lloyd's Registerfor 1820 |
| Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 18 August 1997] |
| Loo Choo (transport) |
Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., II, p. 300. Aurora Hunt, The Army of the Pacific., p. 26. |
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| Manchester Importer |
Built 1899, 4,028 gross tons, owners - Manchester Liners (became part of Furness Lines group). Sold to Greek owners in 1927 and renamed "Alexandra". Scrapped at Venice in 1933.[Sea Breezes Magazine, July 1958] - |
| Citation: [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 2 November 1998] |
| Marco Polo |
See KAISER FRANZ JOSEF I. |
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| Margaret (transport Schooner) |
The United States transport schooner Margaret was driven ashore on the coast of Alaska in March and became a total wreck. Captain Harrison and three men reached shore in safety, but narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Indians. 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.222. |
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| Mariposa |
Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 57. |
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| Mariposa (liner) |
1931-1947, and MONTEREY, 1932-1947. The success of the Malolo convinced William P. Roth, president of Matson Navigation Company, to order more ships for the tourist trade to Hawaii. The Mariposa entered service in 1931, and her sister ship, the Monterey, in 1932 under the operation of the Matson subsidiary, the Oceanic Steamship Company. Both ships at 632 feet were longer than the Malolo and had the slightly slower speed of twenty knots. The days of the 'millionaires' cruises were over, and although the ships had accommodations for 475 first-class passengers, they also had space for 230 persons in cabin class. To assure passengers for the ships during the whole year, Roth decided to extend the voyages to New Zealand and Australia, with stops in Fiji and other exotic spots. In this way the tourist traffic moving from the United States to Hawaii could be balanced with the Australian and New Zealander passengers wishing to reach England via the United States. The publicity campaign of Matson and the amenities a |
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| Mariposa (liner) |
The Alaska Steamship Company liner Mariposa, while steaming north through the sharply winding channels at the upper end of Fitzhugh Sound, struck a rock ledge, tearing a hole in her bottom forward. She had departed Seattle in charge of Capt C. J. O'Brien with 95 passengers and a full cargo of freight for southeastern Alaska and Cook Inlet ports. The Border Line Transportation Company's passenger and freight steamer Despatch, Capt. S. B. Brunn, intercepted the Mariposa's distress call while passing north through Milbank Sound and was at the scene of the stranding, near the entrance to Lama Pass, within an hour and 45 minutes. Two minutes later her boats were over the side and on the way to the beach, where the passengers of the stranded liner had taken refuge. They were removed to the Despatch and landed at Ketchikan. The Esquimalt salvage steamer Saluor refloated the steamer, which had remained with her bow on the reef and her upperworks, from the funnel aft submerged at high tide, and she was drydocked at th |
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| Mariposa (liner) |
The famous old liner Mariposa of the Alaska Steamship Co., southbound from southeastern Alaska ports on November 18 with 269 passengers and a full cargo of copper ore and canned salmon, struck on Strait Island, in Sumner Straits, Alaska. Although the Mariposa had survived more than her share of mishaps, this one proved fatal. Between the time of her striking, 4:50 p.m., and her sinking about six hours later, it was possible to remove all her passengers and crew safely. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1917, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966 p. 294. |
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| Mariposa (liner) |
The Alaska Steamship Co. liner Mariposa, while steaming north through the sharply winding channels at the upper end of Fitzhugh Sound, struck a rock ledge, tearing a hole in her bottom forward. She had departed Seattle in charge of Capt. C. J. O'Brien with 95 passengers and a full cargo of freight for southeastern Alaska and Cook Inlet ports. The Border Line Transportation Company's passenger and freight steamer Despatch, Capt. S. B. Brunn, intercepted the Mariposa's distress call while passing north through Milbank Sound and was at the scene of the stranding, near the entrance to Lama Pass, within an hour and 45 minutes. Two minutes later her boats were over the side and on the way to the beach, where the passengers of the stranded liner had taken refuge. They were removed to the Despatch and landed at Ketchikan. The Esquimalt salvage steamer Salvor refloated the steamer, which had remained with her bow on the reef and her upperworks, from the funnel aft submerged at high tide, and she was drydocked at the S |
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| Mariposa (steamer) |
The steamship Mariposa, sister ship of the Alameda, joined that vessel on the Seattle - Cordova run late in the year, the Mariposa having been purchased by the Alaska Steamship Company from the Oceanic Steamship Company of San Francisco for $300,000. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 188. |
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| Mariposa (steamer) |
The steamship Mariposa, sister ship of the Alameda in Alaska Steamship Co. service, emulated the exploit of her sister to a lesser degree on August 23, crashing into the wharf at Valdez, destroying one end of the warehouse and running ashore amid the debris of the crash and the floating contents of the warehouse. The Admiral Sampson, which had left the wharf 20 minutes earlier, responded to the distress calls of the Mariposa, but as the tide was falling was unable to pull her free. The steamer was rescued from her embarrassing possition at the next high tide, however. As in the case of the Alameda, the Mariposa's mishap was due to a misunderstood signal in the engine room. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 212. |
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| Mariposa (steamer) |
When Captain Farwell arrived with the steamer Mariposa to buck the monopoly, [ on the Stockton to San Francisco steamboat run] he was welcomed as the town's deliverer. And now the combine slashed rates with a vengeance. Before long the Mariposa was carrying passengers to San Francisco at twenty-five cents a head. The combine went even further, announcing that anyone who wanted to go to the Bay City had only to step aboard one of its boats and he would be carried free. Of course, the drinks sold at the bars were not free, but the revenue derived from that source could not keep a boat out of the red. Everybody was losing money. And then the unexpected happened; the owners got together and decided there was business enough for three boats and that they would stop cutting one another's throats and instead put the rates up high enough to recoup their recent losses. Overnight the fare to San Francisco was advertised at twelve dollars for deck passage (eighteen dollars if you wanted a berth), and cargo would be carr |
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| Mariposa, 1956 |
1971 (Liner) - The Matson Navigation Company had provided through its subsidiary, Oceanic Steamship Company, passenger and express freight service from California and Hawaii to Australia and New Zealand before World War 11. Matson had wanted to restore the service once the war was over but was not able to return to the route. The interest remained alive, and in 1954 the company confirmed that Australia and New Zealand eagerly welcomed the revival of the Oceanic Steamship Company service; encouraged by this response, Matson ordered the conversion of two Mariner freighters into the modern fast liners the Mariposa and the Monterey (the same name of the pre-World War 11 vessels in the same route). The ships had accommodations for 365 passengers, only in first class, because the forty-twoday cruises were expected to attract only wealthy travelers; the fast ships of twenty-one knots still carried express freight in special holds and in refrigerated spaces. However, the ships had only a few years' profitable operati |
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| Mary D. Pomeroy (schooner) |
Mary D. Pomeroy, two-masted schooner of 114 tons, was built at Little River, Calif., in 1879 by Peterson for Hobbs, Wall & Co., San Francisco. She was lost with all hands the winter of 1879-80, off Point Reyes. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. June 28, 1941, p. 2 |
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| Mary D. Pomeroy (schooner) |
Mary D. Pomeroy, two-masted schooner of 114 tons, was built at Little River, Calif., in 1879 by Peterson for Hobbs, Wall & Co., San Francisco. She was lost with all hands the winter of 1879-80, off Point Reyes. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850- 1905,The Marine Digest. June 28, 1941, p. 2 |
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| Metropolis |
The remaining wartime Liberty ships, with a quarter of a century of hard service behind them, continued to plod the world's shipping routes in the tramping trade, but were finding it increasingly difficult to compete with newer, faster and more efficient cargo vessels. A case in point in 1967 was the Greek Liberty ship Metropolis, built in 1942 as the Lot Whitcomb. Late in 1966 she returned to Portland with a full cargo of scrap iron from Houston, Texas, but she was leaking badly and in need of extensive repairs. After being moored at a backwater dock on the Columbia River she was sold for debt by the United States marshal, her cargo having been claimed by a Korean firm and sold to Zidell Explorations, Inc. of Portland. The vessel was sold for $56,400 to Schnitzer brothers of Portland for operation by their Pacific Coast Shipping Co. under Liberian registry. At about the same time, three other Portland-built Liberties named for Oregon pioneers were offered for sale for scrapping by the Maritime Administration |
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| Metropolis (bark) |
Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 213-15, 336, 340. |
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| Minneapolis (sternwheeler) |
Built in Tacoma in 1897, Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 211. |
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| Miss Spokane |
Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 181-83, 186-87. |
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| Napoleon Iii (1) |
There were several vessels named NAPOLEON III during this time period. However, according to the annual volumes of Lloyd's Register of Shipping, the only one with a County Durham connection is the bark NAPOLEON III, 297 tons, built under special survey in Sunderland in 1855: Master: 1856/57-1858/59 - A. Smith [owner]; 1859/60-1861/62 - A. Cameron; 1861/62 - Stodley. Owner: A. Smith & [Co]. Port of Registry: Sunderland. Port of Survey: Sunderland. Destined Voyage: 856/57-1861/62 - Mediterranean; 1861/62 - Black Sea. The vessel's entry in Lloyd's Register of Shipping for 1861/62 is stamped "wrecked", an event which must have taken place sometime between February (the date she was last surveyed at Sunderland) and June (the month the 1862/63 volume of the Register was published) 1862. There is no reference to the wreck in the abstract returns of wrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom for 1862 (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1863 [3216] lxiii.165), so the event most probably took place somewhere between Britanny and the Black Sea. For details on the wreck of the NAPOLEON III, contact the National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF, Great Britain, and ask the staff to check the Wreck Registers U.K., which begin in 1855. The National Maritime Museum is also the best location to search for a fuller description or pictorial representation of the vessel. As the NAPOLEON III was small, and was in service only six years, it is unlikely that a photograph of her survives. However, she was built under special survey, and it is therefore quite possible that the survey report survives among the Lloyd's Register of Shipping survey reports now deposited at the Museum. - |
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| Napoleon Iii (2) |
While she had been built as the NAPOLEON III, the vessel that sank in collision with the LOCH EARN was named VILLE DU HAVRE. She was built for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) by Thames Ironworks, London (engines by Ravenshill & Salked, London), as a side-paddle steamer and was launched on 11 February 1865. Original configuration: 3,376 tons; 111,50 x 13,98 meters/365.9 x 45.9 feet (length x beam), straight bow, 2 funnels, 2 masts; iron construction, side-paddles, service speed 11 knots; passenger accommodation for 170 in 1st class, 100 in 2nd class, and 50 in steerage. 26 April 1866, maiden voyage, Havre-Brest-New York. Her lack of speed was a great disappointment to her owners, and she completed only 3 roundtrip voyages to New York in 1866, none in 1867, and 2 in 1868 (30 August 1868, last voyage, Havre-Brest-New York). She was then laid up until 1871. 16 September 1871, sailed Havre-Tyneside. 1871-72, lengthened to 128,52 meters (421.7 feet) by A. Leslie & Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne; 3,960 tons; converted to single-screw, compound egines, mizzen mast added; renamed VILLE DU HAVRE. 29 March 1873, resumed Havre-Brest-New York service. 22 November 1873, bound from New York for Havre, Capt. Marino Surmont, with a crew of 172 and 141 passengers, she sank 12 minutes after colliding with the iron sailing ship LOCH EARN, 1200 tons, of Glasgow, Capt. William Robertson, bound from London to New York in ballast with a crew of 30, at lat. 46.50 N, lon. 35 W, with the loss of 111 crew and 115 passengers. The survivors, 61 crew and 26 passengers, were at first taken aboard the LOCH EARN, but were transferred the next day fo the American vessel TREMONTAIN, Capt. Urquhart, and taken to Cardiff. Although badly damaged, the LOCH EARN proceeded on her voyage, but was abandoned on 28 November, her boats being later picked up by the BRITISH QUEEN, with no further loss of life [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. 652; Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, 1875 (Command 1260) lxx.353-354]. - |
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| Napoletano |
See CITY OF CHESTER . |
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| Napoli |
See SAN GEORGIO. |
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| Napolitan Prince |
The "Napolitan Prince" was a 2900 gross ton vessel built in 1889 as the "Rei de Portugal" by Scott & Co, Greenock for the Potuguese company, Mala Real Portugueza. Her dimensions were length 363.5ft x beam 42.2ft, clipper sten, one funnel, two masts, single screw and a speed of 12 knots. There was accommodation for 25-1st class and 1,150-3rd class passengers. Launched on 1/7/1889, she was sold to the British, Prince Line in 1902 and renamed "Napolitan Prince". She commenced her first voyage for this company on 24/11/1902 from Leghorn to Genoa, Naples, Palermo and New York. Her last voyage commenced 2/3/1908 from Piraeus to Patras, Palermo and New York and she was then chartered to Northwest Transport and commenced running for them on 6/9/1909 from Rotterdam to Halifax and New York. She made four round voyages for them, the last ond starting on 8/1/1910 and was then sold in 1911 to the Cie de Navigation Mixte who renamed her "Manouba". She was scrapped in Italy in Feb. 1929.[N.R.P. Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway, p. 1234] |
| Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Ted Finch - 18 September 1997] |
| Newport (schooner) |
Newport, one of the first, H.M. Delanty, Along the Waterfront, p. 58. |
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| Newport (steamer) |
Iron vessel, two decks, two masts, 2643 tons, 325 x 38.2 x 23.9 feet. 49 crew, 125 passengers. 14 knots. Built at Chester, Pa in 1880. Placed on San Francisco to Los Angeles run January 9, 1925. Placed opposte the Rose City on the Portland to California run. Gilbert Brown. Ships that sail no more. |
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| Newport (steamer) |
The 129 - ton stern- wheel steamer Newport, 92 feet long, was built by the Pend d' Oreille River Navigation Co- at Newport, Washington. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1907, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 140. |
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| Newport (steamer) |
The 81-ton propeller steamer Newport, 72 x 16.4 x 5.4, was built at Yaquina to replace the steamer T M. Richardson on the Newport-Yaquina passenger run. The steamer and route were purchased from Capt. James Chatterton by Jack Fogarty and Capt. Jacobson, who later converted the Newport to gas power and had the unpowered two -deck passenger barges Elk, and later the Julia, built to operate with the Newport under tow. This service continued until the mid - 1920's, when it was replaced by motor stages operating from Corvallis. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1908, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966 |
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| Newport (steamer) |
Another marine event of considerable importance at Coos Bay was a visit from the steamer NewPort, a small propeller, which afterward made several trips between the Oregon port and San Francisco, carrying coal from the mines then operated by Flanagan & Mann, and at present owned by Goodall, Perkins & Co. 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.59. |
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| Newport News (transport) |
Capt. John F. Blaine, wartime district manager at Seattle for the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, with Capt. W. A. Magee and other associates, purchased the U. S. transport Newport News (the former German steamship Odenwald), the original intention being to operate her in coastwise freight and passenger service. Later in the year she was resold to the Alaska Packers' Association of San Francisco and renamed Arctic, replacing two sailing vessels of the company's Alaska cannery fleet, and also the steamer Nushagak of 1904, which was sold in 1924 to Remco Steamship Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 364. |
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| Nippon Maru (steamer) |
Competition on the trans-Pacific route appeared in 1899 with the entry of a second Japanese line, Toyo Kisen Kaisha, with its eastern terminus at San Francisco. Its first vessel, Nippon Maru, arrived at San Francisco in January. She and her sisters, Hong Kong Maru and America Maru, at about 6,200 tons, slightly exceeded the Canadian Empresses in size, and imitated their appearance so obviously with their two funnels and clipper bows, then out of style in most new liner designs, that the crews of the Canadian ships immediately dubbed them the tin Empresses. As they operated on different routes, their relative capabilities were seldom tested, but Capt. A. W. Davison said that upon one occasion the Nippon Maru undertook to race the Empress of India in Oriental waters and, after burning all the paint off her funnels, fell far astern and gave up. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 48. |
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| Northern Transporter (barge) |
The Northern Transporter, a 255-foot covered barge, was designed by Talbot Jackson & Associates and built by McKenzie Barge & Marine Ways, North Vancouver, for Northland Shipping Co., (a subsidiary of Northland Navigation). With a 3,000-ton carrying capacity, the Northern Transporter has an insulated deckhouse with thermostatically-controlled heating and ventilation, a 900-gallon hull tank for carrying cement, and electrical connectors for refrigerated containers. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.162. |
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| Northern Transporter (barge) |
The Northern Transporter, a 255-foot covered barge, was designed by Talbot Jackson & Associates and built by McKenzie Barge & Marine Ways, North Vancouver, for Northland Shipping Co., (a subsidiary of Northland Navigation). With a 3,000-ton carrying capacity, the Northern Transporter has an insulated deckhouse with thermostatically-controlled heating and ventilation, a 900-gallon hull tank for carrying cement, and electrical connectors for refrigerated containers. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.162. |
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| Nozima Maru (transport) |
The Japanese troop transport Nozima Maru was bombed and sunk by American planes while attempting to land combat forces at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1942, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 511. |
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| Ocean Pacific (sports Fisherman) |
Jones-Goddell, Tacoma built vessel for serious California sports fisherman, Jim Jenks, The National Fisherman. March, 1985, p. 51. (il). |
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| Old Maid Two (power Schooner) |
The power schooner Old Maid No. 2, the former Maid of Orleans, was sold by Capt. Carl Klengenberg of Vancouver to C. H. French of Winnipeg for the Hudson's Bay Co., of which he was fur trade commissioner. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 388. |
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| Osprey (power Schooner) |
The Oregon coast power schooners Osprey and Enterprise by the Hume estate to A. D. Chase of Portland. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 202. |
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| Petropolis |
See BAVARIA . |
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| Pocahontas |
This was a 10,881 gross ton ship, built by AG Vulcan, Stettin for Norddeutscher Lloyd [North German Lloyd] in 1900. Her details were - length 523.5ft x beam 60.2ft, two funnels, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 15 knots. Accommodation was provided for 240-1st, 162-2nd and 1,954-3rd class passengers. Launched on 19/6/1900 as the "Prinzess Irene" for the Far East service, she actually commenced her maiden voyage between Bremen, Southampton, Cherbourg and New York on 9/9/1900. On 31/10/1900 she started the first of 7 voyages between Bremen, Suez and the Far East. On 30/4/1903 she commenced sailings between Genoa, Naples and New York and on 6/4/1910 was stranded on Long Island, NY. She was refloated and repaired at Newport News. On 9/7/1914 she commenced her last voyage from Genoa to Naples and New York, where she took refuge until seized by the USA in April 1917. She was renamed "Pocahontas" and used by the US Government until 1921 when she was chartered to US Mail Steamship Co. She commenced the first of two voyages between New York, Naples and Genoa on 26/2/1921 and was refitted to accommodate 350-cabin and 900-3rd class passengers. On 22/5/1921 she commenced her third voyage but only got as far as Gibralter where she was laid up with a machinery defect. In 1922 she was bought back by Norddeutscher Lloyd, towed to Germany, reconditioned and renamed "Bremen". She commenced sailing between Bremen and New York on 7/4/1923 and in April 1926 was refitted to carry cabin, tourist, 3rd cabin and 3rd class. On 28/9/1927 she commenced her last voyage from Bremen to Cobh and New York and in 1928 was renamed "Karlsruhe" to allow her previous name to be used for the new express liner. On 29/1/1928 she sailed on her first voyage under her new name, from Bremen to Cobh and New York and on 16/8/1931 commenced her last voyage from Bremen to Boulogne, Galway, Halifax, New York, Havana, Vera Cruz and Tampico. In June 1932 she started sailings between Bremen, Halifax and Galveston and on 20/8/1932 commenced her last Bremen - Galveston voyage. She was scrapped at Bremerhaven the same year. [ North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.563] There appears to be a lack of information on what the US Gov't used the ship for between 1917 and 1921 although one source states that she was used as a troopship. I suspect that US AT signifies US Army Transport and there is little doubt that, at the time in question, she was a military ship. |
| Citation: [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 12 December 1997] |
| Pocket |
Gordon Speck. Northwest explorations, p. 343-34. |
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| Poinsett (steamship) |
250 tons, transferred to Navy from War Department after Seminole War. Sold, 1845. Vincent Ponko, Jr. Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974., p. 34. |
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| Point Adams (steamer) |
The 2,671 -ton steel steamship Point Adams built by Albina at Portland in 1918 as the Danish Gorm and requisitioned upon completion by the U. S. Shipping Board, and her sister, Point Bonita, built as the Danish Viking, were sold by the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., which had purchased them from the government in 1920, to the Hammond Lumber Co., who entered them in the steam schooner trade under the names Astoria and San Pedro. 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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| Point Arena (lumber Carrier) |
The 2,117 - ton Portland - built Point Arena of 1917 was sold by the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. to the Hammond Lumber Co. and renamed Millamook, later passing to the Lawrence Phillips Steamship Co. of Los Angeles as the Lawrene Phillips. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 388. |
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| Point Arena (steamer) |
A half interest in the coastal steel steamer Point Arena was sold by the Siler Milling Co. of Raymond to the Hart-Wood Lumber Co., the vessel being transferred from the Willapa Harbor California trade to operation from Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Montesano. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1925, H. W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 363. |
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| Point Arena (steamer) |
Capt. H. F. Beecher, who lost the steamer J. B. Libby by fire, purchased the General Miles and also secured the Point Arena for the Island route. The latter was a propeller registering 171 tons, constructed in San Francisco in 1887. She is one hundred and fifteen feet long, thirty feet beam, and nine feet hold. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1889, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 364. |
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| Point Arena (steamer) |
The latter was a propeller registering 171 tons, constructed in San Francisco in 1887. She is one hundred and fifteen feet long, thirty feet beam, and nine 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.364. |
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| Point Defiance (lsd) |
Paul O. Anderson, Ship named for park wins praise at test, The Tacoma News Tribune. November 11, 1959. |
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| Point Ellice (drege Tender) |
The 96 foot steam dredge tender Point Ellice was purchased from the Department of Public Works by the Pacific Great Eastern Railway and fitted as a tug for the Vancouver Squamish car barge service.Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 307. |
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| Point Ellice (steam Tug) |
A number of fine steam tugs were built in British Columbia yards, the largest being the 171-ton steel-hulled Point Ellice, 100 feet in over-all length, with beam of 20.1 and 500-horsepower inverted fore-and-aft compound surface condensing engine, built by McDougall Jenkins, Ltd. at North Vancouver as a dredge tender for the Public Works Department later entering the car barge service of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 192. |
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| Point Garry (dredge Tender) |
The 50 -foot motor dredge tender Point Garry, with 55-horsepower Imperial engine, was built by the British Columbia Department of Public Works at Victoria. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 207. |
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| Point Glass (us Coast Guard) |
South Sound water safety endangered, The Tacoma News Tribune. February 17, 1982. Coast Guard cutter Point Glass sharpest in fleet, ready and waiting to help boaters and to enforce laws, The Peninsula Gateway. August 24, 1983. Coast Guard Cutter leaving, only cutter in south Puget Sound will be transferred to Florida in the Spring of 1989, The Tacoma News Tribune. December 6, 1988, p. 1. |
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| Point Judith (cutter) |
Point Judith, the first of 26 new Point class 82-foot Coast Guard cutters to replace similar cutters sent to Vietnam, was launched by J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Company at Tacoma in July. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXII. |
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| Point Loma (steam Schooner) |
This American steam schooner, 310 tons, grounded on the North Beach Peninsula, near Seaview, February 28, 1896. In charge of Captain Conway, the vessel was enroute to San Francisco from Grays Harbor with lumber. The day prior to the wreck, one of the worst gales of that year struck the steamer and at midnight the engines broke down and water leaked into her hull and extinguished the fires in the boilers. The wind and high seas carried the ship toward the shore. Distress signals shot from her bridge were sighted by shore lookouts, and the Fort Canby lifesa-ving crew hustled down the beach to render aid. They launched a surf boat on several occasions but each time it was repelled by the breakers. Finally a line shot from the beach reached its mark. The crew of the wrecked steamer made it fast and then by means of a raft were successful in getting ashore without the loss of a man. Seventeen in all were saved. The vessel was pounded to pieces. The Point Loma was built at San Francisco in 1888, and was one of the |
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| Point Loma (steam Schooner) |
Grounded on the North Beach peninsula on February 28, 1896. It was built in San Francisco in 1888. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 178. |
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| Point Loma (steam Schooner) |
The 310-ton steam schooner Point Loma stranded on Long Beach, Washington near Seaview on February 28 while en route from Grays Harbor for San Francisco with lumber and in charge of Capt. Conway. The coastal lumber carrier had been struck the previous day by one of the worst gales of the year. At midnight the engine broke down, the sails blew away and the wooden hull began leaking so badly that the boiler fires were extinguished. As the wind and high seas carried her toward the beach, rockets were fired, alerting the Fort Canby lifesaving crew. High seas made it impossible to launch the surf boat, but a line fired from the beach reached the grounded steamer and the 17-man crew was rescued by breeches buoy. The Point Loma, which became a total loss, was one of the early vessels of her type built at San Francisco in 1888, showing sailing ship lines, two masts with fore - and - aft sails and a swinging cargo gaff. She was the first to establish regular scheduled steamship service between that port and Grays Harbo |
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| Point Loma (steamer) |
. The 2,119-ton Portland-built former Shipping Board steamship Point Loma (launched in 1917 as the Norwegian Erling), was purchased from the Hart-Wood Lumber Co. by the Lawrence Phillips Steamship Co. of Los Angeles, remaining active in the Northwest lumber trade as the Dorothy Phillips. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1933, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 423. |
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| Point Loma (tanker) |
Although small compared to the new breed of supertankers, the 504-foot Point Loma became the largest commercial vessel to traverse Lake Washington and the first to pass through both the Mercer Island and recently completed Evergreen Point floating bridges when she delivered 15,000 tons of coal tar to the Reilly Tar & Chemical plant at Renton. The tanker, in charge of Capt. Karl H. Moden, Puget Sound pilot, was assisted by the tugs Carol Foss and Deborah Foss. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XXVII. |
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| Poland |
See MANITOU. |
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| Polar Bear |
The Polar Bear was launched at Astoria in 1888 for the Alaska Packing Company. She is sixty-seven feet nine inches long, eighteen feet two inches beam, and six feet four inches hold, with engines eight and one-half and six by twelve inches. Despite her comparatively small size the steamer has made yearly trips to Bristol Bay, Alaska. On returning in charge of her first master, Charles A. Johanson, she covered over two thousand miles in fourteen days without sighting land. Capt. John M. Olsen was in command for about four years, and Louis G. Haaven handled her one season. Her headquarters at present are in San Francisco. 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.355. |
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| Polar Bear (power Schooner) |
A remarkable gasoline-engined vessel completed in 1911 was the power schooner Polar Bear, an 85-foot two - master with 75 - horsepower Frisco Standard engine built by Ed Heath at his Oxbow yard for Capt. Louis Lane, replacing the ill-fated Helen Johnson which Capt. Lane lost at Point Hope the season before. Upon her completion she was taken on a scientific and trading expedition to the far north, reaching Wrangell Island and returning safely to Seattle with a live polar bear captured at that far northwest point which had been reached only once previously by a government expedition. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.. p. 190. |
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| Polar Pioneer (motor Vessel) |
Polar Pioneer, former Alaska Line refrigerated motor vessel, acquired by Sea Nutrients Corp. of San Diego and converted at Tacoma to a mother ship to handle the catches of a fleet of 85-foot catcher vessels in South American and African waters, and renamed Mermaid. She was resold to a Peruvian fishing combine later in the year and transferred to Callao under still another name, Mochica. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1972, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.116. |
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| Polar Sea (ice Breaker) |
Tough Mission set for coast ice breakers, Marine Digest. LV (April 16, 1977). Polar Sea saga, Snafus foil the search for oil on America's last frontier, The Weekly. April 8, 1981, p. 16. Welcomed home after seventy-seven days in ice pack off Alaska, The Marine Digest. June 20, 1981, p. 11+ Takes researchers to the Arctic, The Marine Digest. April 3, 1982. p. 11. (il). Ice breaker's vibration monitor, The Marine Digest. March 24, 1984, p. 11+ Crew member killed when ship hit by a series of huge waves off British Columbia Coast, The Marine Digest. November 2, 1985, p. 5. In drydock for drive shaft repair at Northwest Marine Iron Words of Portland, The Marine Digest. September 8, 1984, p. 23. |
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| Polar Star (icebreaker) |
The largest government vessel completed at a Northwest yard in 1975 was the 399 x 83.5-foot Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star, the first new vessel of this type to be built for the United States government in more than 20 years, which had been under construction at the Lockheed yard, Seattle, since May 15, 1972. For normal icebreaking operations power is derived from six V-16 diesel engines generating a total of 18,000 horsepower. For operation in heavy ice packs (up to 21 feet thick), the combined 60,000 horsepower of three gas turbine engines may be utilized. A sister ship, Polar Sea was launched during the summer, with delivery to the Coast Guard scheduled for the fall of 1976. Both vessels are to be stationed at Seattle.* *Soon after her commissioning in January, 1976, the Polar Star suffered humiliations reminiscent of the Lockheed-built Sugar Islander of 1973. On her maiden voyage in Puget Sound, she ran aground while engaged in compass compensation maneuvers, but was subsequently refloated without dama |
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| Polar Star (liner) |
Polar Star, the former Greek cruise liner Delos, purchased the previous year by Alaska Cruise Lines, made her first Alaska voyage in the spring in charge of Capt. Ernest M. Sheppard, the line's senior master. The refurbished 294-foot diesel-electric luxury liner was described as the most glamorous yacht-like passenger ship yet assigned to the inside passage run. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.45. |
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| Polar Star (steamer) |
Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 24. |
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| Polar Star (tug) |
Northland Marine Lines, the young and growing Seattle tug and barge shipping company providing container and break bulk cargo service regularly to southeastern Alaska and Hawaii and seasonally to the remote northern ports of Bethel, Nome and Kotzebue, completed an eight-month rebuilding of their big tug Polar Star, which emerged as a virtually new vessel. Polar Star was the former Coast Guard cutter Bonham, built at Camden, New jersey in 1927. Of riveted steel construction, she is 125 feet in length, with a beam of 24 feet and a gross tonnage of 198.5 tons. Northland Marine had previously used her, with minor modifications, in barge-towing service with several chartered American Tug & Barge vessels. The Polar Star was stripped to the deck and all existing machinery removed, including shafts and propellers. New Caterpillar engines of 1,450 total horsepower were installed, turning 66-inch four-bladed stainless steel Coolidge propellers. All controls were automated, new crew staterooms and dayroom, an all-electr |
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| Polaria |
The "Polaria" was built by C.Mitchell & Co, Walker-on-Tyne in 1882 for the Carr Line of Hamburg. She was a 2,724 gross ton ship, length 300ft x beam 38.2ft, straight stem, one funnel, two masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. There was accommodation for 1,100-3rd class passengers only. Launched on 21/2/1882, she sailed on her maiden voyage from Hamburg to New York on 27/4/1882. In April 1888 she made her last Hamburg - New York voyage for the Carr Line and in May of that year went to the Hamburg America Line with the rest of the Carr Line fleet. On 16/6/1888 she commenced her first Hamburg - New York crossing for her new owners and on 22/9/1889 started sailings between Stettin and New York. She commenced her last voyage on this service (Stettin - New York)on 12/3/1893 (20 round voyages) and on 6/6/1895 started her last Hamburg - New York voyage. On 28/8/1895 she commenced her last Hamburg - Philadelphia - Baltimore crossing. In July 1903 she went to a British company and later the same year was resold to German owners and scrapped in 1904 at Hamburg. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.395] |
| Citation: [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 11 January 1998] |
| Polaris |
The SS Polaris sailing out of Hanko, Finland, was the main routing for Finnish emigrants on their way to North America. My grandmother, Ida Maria (Hyt”nen) Huuskonen, sailed on this vessel to Hull, England, where she then traveled to Liverpool to sail on the Cunard Line's Aurania in August 1903. The Polaris was owned by the Finland Steamship Co., which had a monopoly on steamship travel to England. - |
| Citation: [Posted to The ShipsList by Wallace Huskonen - 28 January 1998] |
| Polaris (fish Boat) |
Launched April 17, 1980 at the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation in Tacoma, The Marine Digest. LVIII (April 26, 1980), p. 11. (Fish carrying capacity of 1200 short tons, owned by the Bumblebee Sea Foos, a division of Castle and Cook, Inc. |
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| Polaris (halibut Schooner) |
Maritime memories, the halibut schooners Polaris and the Vansee pictured under construction at a Seattle Shipyard, 1913, The Marine Digest. August 1, 1987, p. 5. |
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| Polaris (motor Vessel) |
Another interesting conversion of a former government vessel for service in the commercial field was that of the 135-foot motor vessel Polaris, which was renovated by owner Mike Skalley at Everett for service as a timber survey vessel in Alaska in charge of Capt. Walter Davis. Polaris was built at Montreal in 1918 as the naval North Sea trawler type patrol boat HMCS Armentieres and operated out of Victoria for many years. In 1949 she was purchased by Coastal Towing Co., becoming the steam tug A. G. Garrish. She was taken over in 1958 by Arctic Shipping Ltd. of Edmonton, converted to diesel power and, as Arctic Rover, sailed to the Arctic out of Vancouver for two seasons, before being purchased by Vancouver Tug Boat Co. and renamed La Force. After the formation of Seaspan International she was laid up and not renamed with the rest of the fleet. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1973, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.144. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
The Polaris, a four - masted schooner of 790 tons, carrying a million feet, was built at Marshfield, Ore., in 1902 for the Pacific Shipping Co., San Francisco. On January 16, 1 1914, she left San Francisco for Eureka in tow of the steam schooner Wilmington. She broke adrift off Bolinas and was wrecked on Duxbury Reef, the crew of 10 being rescued. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
Built for Pacific Shipping Company in 1902, stranded on reef off California in January of 1914, The Marine Digest. March 8, 1986, p. 6. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
The Polaris, a four - masted schooner of 790 tons, carrying a million feet, was built at Marshfield, Ore., in 1902 for the Pacific Shipping Co., San Francisco. On January 16, 1 1914, she left San Francisco for Eureka in tow of the steam schooner Wilmington. She broke adrift off Bolinas and was wrecked on Duxbury Reef, the crew of 10 being rescued. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
The schooner Polaris of 1902, being towed by the steam schooner Wilmington, broke loose and struck Duxbury Reef off the California coast on January 16 and was lost, Capt. A. S. Hansen and the crew of 12 being saved. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1914, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.248. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
A notable passage from Antofagasta, on the West Coast of South America to Tacoma was completed late in March, 1911, by the big scooner Polaris ofthe Pacific Shipping Company,commanded bgy O.B. Linholm. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 186. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
The 75 -ton fishing schooner Polaris, owned by the Pacific Net & Twine Co. of Seattle, enroute to the Internation Fisheries Co. dock in Tacoma, rammed and sank the sloop-rigged yacht Presto moored at the entrance to the city waterway on April 23. C. E. Hogberg, the owner of the yacht, fortunately retained an amphibious attorney in the person of Wedell Foss, son of the proprietors of the Foss Boathouse. As the Polaris attempted to leave port, Foss, with a deputy U. S. marshal, warmed up the engines of the launch Lillian D. Foss and set out in hot pursuit. The fishing schooner was overhauled off Robinson Point and a libel served on her skipper by the deputy marshal. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.230. |
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| Polaris (schooner) |
The Seattle power fishing schooner Polaris, which had earlier sunk a Tacoma yacht, barely escaped destruction herself on December 1, when she struck an uncharted rock off Kayak Island near Katalla while scudding for shelter from a 75-mile-an-hour storm. Taking the brunt of the shock on her heavy false keel, the schooner slid over the rock into deep water, and later proceeded to Seattle with her cargo of halibut. The Polaris was in charge of Capt. Egill Erickson. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1913, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.232. |
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| Polaris (tug) |
At Vancouver, B.C. the 135.5-foot ocean tug Polaris (the former British Admiralty tug St. Catherine and Canadian National No. 2), having returned from extended charter service to U.S. military forces in Vietnam, was sold by North Pacific Towing & Salvage Ltd., to Gulf of Georgia Towing Co. She was assigned to the 5,500-ton oil and limerock barge Gulf Alladin, receiving another name change to Gulf Freda. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.44. |
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| Polaris (tuna Seiner) |
As in previous years, a number of significant new commercial fishing vessels were completed in Northwest yards in 1970. J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, completed the ninth of its class of 165 x 34-foot tuna seiners, the Polaris for Mrs. Joseph Gann and Edmund Gann, who had previously taken delivery of a sister ship, the John F. Kennedy. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.79 |
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| Polcevera |
The "Polcevera" was a 2,239 gross ton ship, built in 1882 by Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow. Her details were - length 299.2ft x beam 37.2ft, one funnel, two masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was accommodation for 20-1st and 500-3rd class passengers. Launched on 15/11/1882 for Raggio, she came under the ownership of Navigazione Generale Italiana in 1885 and commenced her first voyage for them from Palermo to Boston and New York on 24/6/1885. On 8/10/1891 she sailed on her last voyage from Girgenti to Catania, Messina and New York (5 Round voyages). She then went to the Soc. Nazionale di Servizi Marittimi in 1910 and to Sicilia in 1913. On 26/10/1916 she was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine off Marettino Island, Sicily. |
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| Poleric |
See CAIRNRONA. |
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| Politkofsky (steamer) |
Built in Sitka, Alaska in 1866. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 212. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 156. The ex-Russian Steamer Politkofsky was called Polly here, The Marine Digest. July 19, 1986, p. 11+ Murray C. Morgan. Last Wilderness, p. 69. Early Puget Sound tug once Russian gunboat, gun at the Washington State Historical Society, The Tacoma News Tribune. July 24, 1955. (Magazine section). |
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| Politkofsky (steamer) |
The old Politkofsky was probably the most romantic of all the early day craft. She was a specimen of Russian marine architecture, built in Sitka in 1866 of hewn Alaska cedar; and passed into the bands of the United States when Alaska was purchased. She was fitted with a very expensive copper boiler and steeple compound engines manufactured in Baltimore and she was manned with guns. At one time she was in the service of the Czar of Russia, and men with long beards and long boats paraded her deck. Then her environment was changed, and her character also. Her boiler was removed at San Francisco and sold for more than the purchase price of the entire vessel. Later she was purchased by Mr. Meigs who brought her up to Port Madison. In 1879, she was bought by Dexter Horton and Company of Seattle for $5,900, and still later passed into the hands of the Port Blakely Mill Company. Imagine-towing logs for a sawmill! When the gold rush developed, she was sold to prospectors and towed to St. Michael in 1897, used there |
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| Politkofsky (steamer) |
A famous specimen of Russian marine architecture which is still in existence came under the American flag with the transfer. She was and is still handicapped with the name Politkofsky, and was built at Sitka in 1866 of hewn Alaskan cedar. She was fitted with a very expensive copper boiler and steeple compound engines, manufactured in Baltimore. This vessel subsequently passed into the hands of the Alaska Commercial Company, Captain Niebaum, a former officer of the steamer, being one of the officials of the corporation which purchased her. She steamed down to Victoria in charge of Capt. William Kohl, and in announcing her appearance the Victoria Colonist of April 22, 1868, says: Sitka may well be proud of her marine architecture. The steamer Politkofsky is one of the most magnificent specimens of home-made marine architecture we have yet beheld. She looks as if she had been thrown together after dark by an Indian ship carpenter, with stone tools. Her engines are good and were formerly in a Russian fur company |
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| Pollas |
Todd Hull 15. Down the Ways. (June 10, 1920), p. 11, 38. (7,500 ton vessel). |
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| Pollux (roberts P. 76) |
Todd Hull 15. Down the Ways. (June 10, 1920), p. 11, 38. (7,500 ton vessel). |
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| Polonia (1) |
(of 1895) See VANDALIA. |
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| Polonia (2) |
(of 1913) See BATAVIA (3). |
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| Polonia (3) |
(of 1921) See KURSK. |
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| Poltalloch (bark) |
This British bark, 2,250 tons, stranded north of Shoalwater bar, November 26, 1900, without loss of life. She was eventually refloated. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Poltalloch (bark) |
British vessel stranded north of Shoalwater Bar on November 26, 1900. Eventually was refloated. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 178. The Salvage was several months after the stranding, Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 134. |
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| Poltalloch (bark) |
The British bark Poltalloch, well -known in the offshore trade from Northwest ports, was purchased at auction by Eschen & Minor, San Francisco stevedores, for $ 17,500. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 175. |
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| Polynesia |
The "Polynesia" was built by C.Mitchell & Co.,Walker-on-Tyne in 1881 for the Carr Line of Hamburg. She was a 2196 gross ton vessel, length 298.7ft x beam 36ft, one funnel, two (extremely tall) masts rigged for three jib sails, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 10 knots. There was accommodation for 950-3rd class passengers only. Launched on 5/11/1881, she sailed from Hamburg on her maiden voyage to New York on 27/12/1881. In May 1888, the Carr Line vessels were taken over by Hamburg America Line and continued on the same service. On 27/4/1889 she commenced sailings from Stettin to New York until, after 19 round voyages she started her last sailing from Stettin on 29/5/1892 and resumed the Hamburg - New York service. On 11/8/1894 she started her last trip from Hamburg to Baltimore and on 30/7/1903 was sold to a British company. Later the same year she went back to the German flag and in 1904 was sold to Italy. She was sunk by an old wartime mine near Reggio, Italy on 28/8/1921. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1,p.395] Sorry, but have no sources for a picture, but if you do find one, ensure that you get the right vessel as Hamburg America Line had a later vessel with the same name built in 1904. Suggest you try the Maritime Museums. |
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| Polynesian |
The Polynesian, of the Allan Line, which sailed on her maiden voyage in October 1872, was said to "roll on wet grass" and was called "Rolling Poly." In 1893 she was refitted and renamed the Laurentian. Polynesian, despite its reputation, was sailing from Liverpool and Glasgow to Canada and the USA until she was wrecked near Cape Race in 1909. - [E-Mail from Marj Kohli - 10 Mar 1998] |
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| Polynesian (barneby. P. 387) |
The British bark Poltalloch, well -known in the offshore trade from Northwest ports, was purchased at auction by Eschen & Minor, San Francisco stevedores, for $ 17,500. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 175. |
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| Pomare (bark) |
The bark Pomare, launched at Sooke, B. C., several years before, under the name Roberl Cowan, was wrecked near Honolulu, February i 8, 1883. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1883, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 315. |
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| Pomare (freighter) |
The former FS-242, a 601 ton wooden Army motor freighter of wartime construction, was rebuilt with refrigerated cargo holds and space for 12 passengers. Renamed the Pomare, she maintained monthly Seattle-Alaska sailings in addition to handling the western Alaska mail service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 569. |
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| Pomare (motorship) |
Built in San Francisco in 1945. Other names include Princess of Alberni, Nootka Prince, Ocean Crown. Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb. The Princess Story a century and a half of w p. 346. |
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| Pomeranian |
The "Pomeranian" was a 4,364 gross ton ship, built in 1882 by Earle's Shipbuilding Co, Hull as the "Grecian Monarch" for the Monarch Line. Her details were - length 381ft x beam 43.8ft, one funnel, four masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. There was passenger accommodation for 40-1st, 60-2nd and 1,000-3rd class. Launched on 6/5/1882, she sailed from London for New York on her maiden voyage on 13/8/1882. Her last voyage on this service started on 26/11/1886 and she was sold to the Allan Line in 1887 and renamed "Pomeranian". On 8/9/1887 she commenced her first London - Montreal sailing and on 24/8/1889 transferred to the Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal service. She started her first Glasgow - New York voyage on 10/4/1891 and on 4/2/1893 was badly damaged by heavy seas, with the loss of 12 lives. She returned to Glasgow where she was rebuilt and her masts reduced to two. On 11/5/1893 she resumed Glasgow - Quebec - Montreal sailings and in 1902 was refitted to carry 2nd and 3rd class passengers only. She resumed London - Montreal sailings on 6/5/1905 and on 9/5/1912 commenced her first Liverpool - Philadelphia crossing. Her first Glasgow - Liverpool - Philadelphia voyage started on 15/6/1912 and on 19/12/1912 she resumed London - St John NB - Halifax voyages. On 15/4/1914 she transferred back to Glasgow - Liverpool - Philadelphia sailings and on 26/12/1914 sailed Glasgow - Halifax - Portland. In 1917 she came under the ownership of Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, and was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UC.77 near Portland Bill on 15/4/1918 with the loss of 45 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.317] - |
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| Pommeren (bark) |
Harold Underhill, Masting and Rigging., p. 29. |
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| Pommern (bark) |
Foreign flag windjammers were none too plentiful in Northwest ports in 1926, but one of the few was the big Finnish four-masted bark Pommern, originally German, allotted to Greece after the war, and finally purchased by Gustaf Erikson of Mariehamn. Chartered by J. J. Moore & Co. at Callao after delivering a cargo of coal from Newcastle, she arrived in ballast at Astoria for orders on September 30 and proceeded to Everett for lumber, topping off her cargo at the Defiance Mill in Tacoma. Gordon Newell, Marine Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 372. |
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| Pompei |
See BOHEMIA. |
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| Pompeji |
See BOHEMIA. |
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| Pontus H. Ross |
The Army freighter Pontus H. Ross in January loaded a consignment of lumber there for Korea. This was the first vessel ever to call at Newport for a direct offshore cargo. Other large shipments were loaded -later in the year for Holland, the United Kingdom, Hawaii and other world ports. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1949, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 560. |
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| Porpoise (brig) |
224 tons, 88' x 25' x 11'. Built at Boston Navy Yard, 1836; lost at sea, 1854. Armament: 10 guns. Vincent Ponko, Jr. Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974.. p. 19-28, 206, 210, 214. |
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| Porpoise (usn) |
Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington., II, p. 178, 181, 202. Cecil P. Dryden. Give all to Oregon., p. 77. Richard Montgomery. White Headed Eagle, John McLoughlin, p. 276. Cecil Dryden. Dryden's History of Washington. 1968., p. 90. Surveyed Puget Sound and the Columbia River under Wilkes. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, I, p. 151, 227, 228. Charles H. Carey. General History of Oregon. 1971., I, p. 381. |
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| Port Admiral (schooner) |
The well-known San Juan Island schooner Port Admiral, carrying a full cargo of lumber and in charge of Capt. Harry Barlow, was wrecked 20 miles south of Wrangell during a blinding snowstorm on the morning of February 9. Capt. Barlow sold the wreck, which was towed to Wrangell and the cargo salvaged, and returned to Puget Sound, where he obtained the little passenger steam launch Mocking Bird and took her north for Skagway - Dyea ferry service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1898. H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 42 |
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| Port Alberni (tug) |
The Port Alberni was purchased by Vancouver @g Boat Co., rebuilt with a 250-horsepower diesel, and returned to towing service as La Rose. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1950-51, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 574. |
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| Port Auckland |
See INDRAPURA. |
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| Port Fairy |
See DONA MARIA. |
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| Port Gordon |
The British ship Port Gordon, from Androssan for Tacoma, was wrecked near Destruction Island during a heavy fog at 3:00 A.M., February 27th. The vessel stranded at high water, and, as she was a fine new ship, did not go to pieces for some time. Two of the crew were drowned and two died from exposure. Those lost were Matthew Campbell, Valentine, Lackey and Gassey. 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.373. |
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| Port Henderson |
See ARAWA. |
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| Port Of Brandon (tug) |
The 84-ton wooden tug Port of Bandon 80.6 x 20.6 x 8, with 500-horsepower diesel engine, was built at Prosper, Oregon for operation on the Coquille River as a bar tug. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1938 H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 463. |
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| Port Of Pasco #510 (barge) |
December 12, 1953 Barge owned by Upper Columbia Towing Co. Wrecked on the north spit jetty, cargo saved. Don Marhsall, Ship Disasters, Blacklock Point to Tenmile Creek. Portland: Binford & Mort, 1984, p.42-46 |
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| Port Of Pasco (barge) |
The barge Port of Pasco, being towed out of Coos Bay with another barge by the tug Winquatt on December 12, broke loose and drifted onto the north jetty, becoming a total loss. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 591. |
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| Port Orchard |
Built in Tacoma in 1887 as the Skagit Chief. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea p. 213. |
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| Port Orchard (steamer) |
The rebuilt stern-wheeler Port Orchard, formerly the Skagit Chief also made an effort to compete with the Green Kennedy boats, being operated by Capt. Call in place of the Mary F. Perley, destroyed by fire the previous year. The Port Orchard was put out of business by a bitter rate war and was purchased from the mortgage-holders by Green and Kennedy for $ 12,000, being retained on the Port Orchard route, which was prospering with the completion of the U. S. Navy Yard at Bremerton. The steamer was placed in command of Capt. Peter Falk, who had been mate of the Henrn Bailey of the Pacific Navigation Co. in 1888 and who, with Purser Joshua Green, Capt. Samuel T. Denny and Engineer Frank Zikmund, had purchased the steamer Fannie Lake, a development which led to the formation of the La Conner Trading & Transportation Co., and its later merger with the Puget Sound Navigation Co. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1902, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 76. |
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| Port Orford (steam Schooner) |
The steam schooner Port Orford (ex-Horace X. Baxter of 1917) ran aground, slipped free and then broke up after stranding on Yasha Island while negotiating Chatham Strait with a cargo of military supplies on the night of December 22. The crew escaped in the boats, but ship and cargo were a total loss. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1942, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 512. |
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| Port Quebec (harbor Defense Vessel) |
A new Canadian Naval vessel was launched by the Burrard Dry Dock Co. at North Vancouver. This was the 125 -foot steel Gate type vessel HMCS Porte Quebec designed for tending submarine nets and for harbor defense work. Mrs. Robert Mayhew, wife of the Federal Minister of Fisheries (and later first post-war Canadian Ambassador to Japan), christened the vessel. 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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| Port Simpson |
The stern-wheeler Port Simpson of 1908, idle since suspension of Hudson's Bay Co. Skeena River steamboat service in 1912, was sold to M. M. Stephens of Prince Rupert. She was dismantled and the hull lay near the city for many years. The Hazelton of 1900, which ran with the Port Simpson until 1911, had previously been sold to the Prince Rupert Yacht Club. Also dismantled, her hull served as a clubhouse until 1924. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.258. |
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| Port Simpson (stern Wheeler) |
The stern-wheeler Port Simpson of 1908, idle since suspension of Hudson's Bay Co. Skeena River steamboat service in 1912, was sold to M. M Stephens of Prince Rupert. She was dismantled and the hull lay near the city for many years. The Hazelton of 1900, which ran with the Port Simpson until 1911, had previously been sold to the Prince Rupert Yacht Club. Also dismantled, her hull served as a clubhouse until 1924. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior,1966., p. 258. |
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| Port Victor |
The "Port Victor" was a 2,793 gross ton ship built in 1885 by Leslie, Newcastle-on-Tyne for Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co, Ltd.(Wm Milburn & Co). On 26/11/1886 she started her first passenger voyage from London via the Cape to Melbourne and Sydney and commenced her last voyage on this service on 5/8/1891. Later sailings were cargo only or on charter. In March 1899 she was sold to the US government. [North Star to Southern Cross by John M.Maber] Maber states that the "Port Victor" was employed on other trades between her completion and Nov.1886 due to the trade depression.(?) The company was taken over by Cunard in 1916 and eventually became the Port Line Ltd in 1936. - |
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| Port Vincent (tug) |
Port Vincent, 100-foot welded steel diesel tug, built in 1943 for the Maritime Commission at Slidell, Louisiana, purchased by the Standard Oil Co. of California and placed in service on Puget Sound as the Standard No. 3 in conjunction with the steam tank barge S. 0. Co. No. 15 Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1946, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p.533. |
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| Portimpos (german Bark) |
Stranded on North Beach December 19, 1896. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 178. On side on the North Beach peninsula in 1896. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 75. |
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| Portland |
The steamship Portland - Owners:Portlaand Steam Packet Company, founded in 1844, joined the Eastern Steamship Company of Boston, Mass in 1901. Operated between Boston, Mass. and Portland Maine. Built: 1890 by New England Shipbuilding Co., Bath Maine. Offical Number 150488. Length 291.0 feet; Breadth 42.1 feet; Draft 15.5 feet; Gross Tons 2283.0; Speed 15.0 knots; Hull sidewheelers; Lost in a hurricane November 26,1898 off of Massachusetts coast, while enroute from Boston to Portland, Maine. No one survived when the vessel was lost. Captain Blanchard from Portland, Maine was the Master . The vessel's Purser, had stayed on shore, in order to attend the funeral of one of the line`s Captains who had just died. Therefore he did avoid death himself. Another vesel called Steamer PENTAGOET was also lost during this hurricane. NOTE: Eastern Steamship Co. went out of business September 1954.Therefore it would be a hard job tracking their records. - |
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| Portland (barkentine) |
The barkentine Portland of 493 tons, was built at Marshfield, Ore., in 1873 by John Kruse for A . M. Simpson, San Francisco, costinl, $35,000. In June, 1906, while she was hauled out on the old Marine railway at North Island, San Diego Bay, she broke her back and was and was condemned. The hulk was towed to sea later coming ashore at Tent City and was burned in 1908 to clebrate the arrival of Evans' fleet. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2.. |
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| Portland (barkentine) |
The barkentine Portland of 493 tons, was built at Marshfield, Ore., in 1873 by John Kruse for A . M. Simpson, San Francisco, costinl, $35,000. In June, 1906, while she was hauled out on the old Marine railway at North Island, San Diego Bay, she broke her back and was and was condemned. The hulk was towed to sea later coming ashore at Tent City and was burned in 1908 to clebrate the arrival of Evans' fleet. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest.July 26, 1941, p. 2.. |
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| Portland (barkentine) |
The Portland, 493-ton barkentine built by John Kruse at Marshfield in 1873 for the Simpson lumber fleet, broke her back and was condemned while on the marine railway at North Island, San Diego in June. She was dismantled and the hulk burned at Tent City in 1908 to celebrate the arrival of the United States Fleet under Adm. Robley D. Evans. xxxx. p. 128. |
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| Portland (barkentine) |
The barkentine Portland was launched at Coos Bay, August 23d. 1873 Captain Gage took command and ran her in the coasting trade. The Portland was 468 tons net register, one hundred and sixty-one feet long, thirty-five feet beam, and thirteen feet hold. She is still operated as a coaster by one of her original owners, Capt. A. M. Simpson of San Francisco. 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.210. |
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| Portland (barkentine) |
The barkentine Portland, launched at Coos Bay the preceding year, made the run from San Francisco to Astoria in three days, beating the steamship Oriflamme. 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.220. |
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| Portland (dredge) |
In a sudden storm off Whidbey Island in April, four men employed by the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. were drowned when the steam dredge Portland, in tow of the tug Jim, capsized off Bush Point. Those lost were Ralph Clarkson, Jack Hicklin, George F. Sharp and Jack E. Greenwood, all of the dredge crew. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 548. |
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| Portland (dredge) |
The 645-ton hydraulic suction dredge Portland, 120 x 36 x 11, was built at Portland for the Oregon coast service of the Army Engineers. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1908, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest |
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| Portland (hms Frigate) |
The waters of Vancouver Island first saw a British flagship three years later, in 1851, when Read Admiral of the Blue, Fairfax Moresby, C.B., arrived in his flagship H.M. frigate Portland of 50 guns, flag Captain H. Chads, and anchored in Esquimalt harbour on the 27th of June. Admiral Moresby's chief object in coming so far from South America was to investigate the settlers' affairs and to straighten out the traffic rules between the infant Colony and the Territory of the United States, as well as to ensure the preservation of law and order under the British flag. Frederick Victor Longstaff, Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defenses. Vancouver, B.C.: Clarke & Stuart Co. Ltd. 1942., p.14-5. |
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| Portland (sidewheeler) |
March 17, 1857 Sidewheel steamer, 90' long, built at Portland in 1853. She was swept over the falls at Oregon City and into the basin of the Clackamas. Captain Archibald Jamieson and two others died. jamieson belonged to a real steamboat family; of his three brothers, only one managed to die in bed. One brother went up in the explosion of the Cariboo at Victoria, British Columbia and the other was killed in the explosion of the Yale on the Frasier River. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| Portland (steam Dredge) |
September 3,1922 Steam dredge. Rammed by the steamer Santa Clara, went to the bottom of the Willamette. Three dead. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| Portland (steam Dredge) |
The Port of Portland steam dredge Portland was sunk in the Willamette Pdver by the Pacific Mail steamer Santa Clara in September. Three lives were lost and one man was seriously injured as a result of the accident. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1922, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 330. |
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| Portland (steamboat) |
Another minor collision on the Willamette River at Portland involved two picturesque steamboats, the Port of Portland's stern-wheeler Portland and the retired Puget Sound steam ferry Shasta, moored on the downtown waterfront as a floating restaurant. The Portland was attempting to undock and turn a grain ship from a nearby terminal when she backed into the restaurant ship, carrying away part of the outside walkway and inflicting other minor damage. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1972, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.127. |
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| Portland (steamer) |
Built 1885, Bath, Maine; christened HAYTIAN REPUBLIC; notorious as opium runner and Chinese smuggler; brought the Ton of Gold, starting Alaska gold rush 1897. Speidel, p. 305, 312-13, 315. The steamer Portland, Overland Monthly. (January, 1903), p. 59-61. Roland Carey, The Portland, two times on the rocks, Marine Digest. May 4, 1985, p. 11-14. Portland of the Alaska Coast Co., on Puget Sound-Alaska run. 1910. TDL p. 31. S.S. Portland arriving in the Straits, July 17the with a ton of gold from the Klondike. PH v.1, p. 437. Barry M. Gough, The Royal Navy and the Northwest Coast, p. 92, 133. Steam Ship in Portland (photo), Pacific Monthly, Feb. 1910, v. 23, p. 187. Arrived with load of gold in Seattle, April 1897. Edgar I Stewart, Washington, Northwest Frontier. II, p. 179-180. William Spiedel. Sons of the profits., p. 312-313. BNG, p. 271 |
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| Portland (steamer) |
Operation of a most interesting river towboat was taken over by the Shaver Company in 1947 with the completion of the large steel stern-wheel steamer Portland, designed by Guy H. Thayer and built for the Port of Portland Commission by the Northwest Marine Iron Works at the Gunderson Bros. yard. When the first Port Commission towboat Portland of 1919 was found to be so weary from her quarter century of faithful service that repairs and recertification were impractical, it was assumed that she would be replaced by a modern tunnel-stern, multiple-screw diesel vessel. Portland harbor pilots, however, insisted that a powerful sternwheel steamboat of large size and conventional design was ideally suited to maneuvering ocean vessels in the narrow confines of the Willamette. After considerable controversy the pilots won and the new Portland was the result. The 928-ton steamer, with dimensions of 219 feet (overall) x 42 x 9, was propelled by two sets of single-cylinder horizontal non-condensing steam engines located a |
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| Portland (steamer) |
The enterprising North American Transportation & Trading Co. obtained a 37-mm (one-pounder) Maxim rapid-fire gun and had it installed on the Portland on the starboard side of the forward deck for the avowed purpose of fighting off any pirate craft which might attempt to waylay the now world -famous treasure ship anl rob her of her golden cargo. It made excellent publicity and established the little Portland more firmly than ever as the queen of the Yukon fleet. However her fame had become such that the once unsuccessful vessel was reclaimed by her owner, Louis Rosenfeld of San Francisco, at the expiration of her charter in the late fall and the North American Transportation & Trading Co. was forced to replace her for the 1898 season. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 18. |
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| Portland (steamer) |
The North American Transportation & Trading Company's replacement for the chartered gold ship Portland, the steel steamer Roanoke, Capt. William Kidston, departed from New York March 1, on April 8 exchanging salutes with the battleship Oregon on her famed dash around the Horn, and after a month's overhaul at San Francisco arrived on the Sound on May 29. Built at Chester, Pennsylvania for the Old Dominion Line in 1882, she was engaged in the plush New York-Norfolk run and her saloons, staterooms and cabins were fitted up in elegant style, with paneling of birdseye maple and sandalwood and a great deal of filigree work. She was 286 feet long, with three decks and accommodations' for 225 cabin and 300 steerage passengers. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1898, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p.35. |
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| Portland (steamer) |
Capt. Moore was to experience another shipwreck [after that of the steamer Kentucky] fatal only to his vessel when the proverbial luck of the famous old gold ship Portland finally ran out on November 12, 1910 . She was proceeding north toward Cordova in a heavy b@zard when she struck an uncharted rock off Martin Island near the mouth of Controller Bay, where she was to discharge freight for Katalla. As the tide rose, Capt. Moore backed her off the rock and headed her for the beach, about two miles distant, where she was run ashore with ten feet of waler in her holds. Passengers, mails and all but 30 tons of her cargo were removed by lighters from Katalla. The survivors spent six days at Katalla, subsisting comfortably on turkey, cranberries, pumpkin pies and other Thanksgiving delicacies from the Portland's cargo. Although for some time hope was maintained that the stout old craft could be salvaged, a severe storm soon arose, battering her so badly that she was abandoned, her wreckage gradually disintegrating |
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| Portland (steamer) |
At Portland, Willamette Tug & Barge Co. received an agency agreement to operate the Port of Portland's colorful stern-wheel steamer Portland, which had carried the stack markings of Shaver Transportation Co. for the past 20 years. Previous efforts to have her replaced by a more economical diesel towboat had been ended by the firm stand of ship-owners, pilots and others in favor of the Portland and she remains in operation to the present time as the last operating stern-wheel steamer on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.48. |
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| Portland (steamer) |
Captain Murray had been running the Portland in connection with the Enterprise as the Citizens' Line, but took her off the route in September to make a few trips to Astoria, replacing the Multnomah, which was laid up for repairs. On the return of the Multnomah the Portland was taken above the falls, and began running in charge of Jamieson, who afterward met a tragic death by going over the falls with the old steamer. 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.60. |
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| Portland (steamer) |
The most serious marine casualty of the year was that of the steamer Portland, which was swept over the falls at Oregon City, March 17th, drowning Capt. Archibald Jamieson and two others. The steamer left Canemah in command of Captain Jamieson, who intended to take her into the basin at Oregon City to discharge some freight. The regular engineer, a brother of Captain Jamieson, remained on shore, and the fireman, Peter Anderson, and a deckhand named Bell, were the only persons on board. In swinging into the basin the steamer drifted too far out; and, the river being unusually high, the current caught her, and, before the men on board were aware of it, she began to work toward the rim of the basin. The perilous position in which they were placed then became apparent to the men, and they made an attempt to get the boat under control; but the steam had run down, and she could make no headway against the current. Capt. George Pease was standing near, and, realizing the danger, threw out lines and called to the men |
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| Portland (steamer) |
The century-old dream of slackwater navigation of the Columbia and Snake Rivers from the Pacific Ocean to Lewiston, Idaho, was realized in June of 1975 when a convoy of commercial, government and private vessels, led by the Port of Portland's stern-wheel steamer Portland, proceeded upstream for the dedication of the three lower Snake River dams. The completion of Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Granite Dams, with their navigational locks, provided a 465-mile inland seaway through the Cascade Mountains to Lewiston...the farthest inland waterway in Western America. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1975, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.172. |
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| Portland (sternwheeler) |
Firms selected to remodel historic steamer and operate it as excursion vessel. Marine Digest, March 20, 1982, p. 2. Port of Portland still seeks home for sternwheeler, Marine Digest, November 27, 1982, p. 24. Sternwheeler to become excursion vessel; Port of Portland commission OK's project for conversion of steamer. Marine Digest, December 22, 1984, p. 23. (il) Port of Portland commissioners continue to work toward conversion of PORTLAND to tour boat; objections from Port of Cascade Locks, which operates new, smaller COLUMBIA GORGE sternwheeler tour boat. Marine Digest, May 18, 1985, p. 24. Portland's plans for sternwheeler: $2 to $4 million for conversion to tour boat, construction of dock at Tom McCall Park; lease signed, vessel to be in service in 1987. Marine Digest, November 23, 1985, p. 3+. |
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| Portland (towboat) |
The wooden stern-wheel towboat Portland of 1919, replaced by the new steel Portland, was stripped of machinery and sold by the Port of Portland in 1948 to C. E. Colpaert for $ 750. The boat was towed up the Columbia River and tied up at Pasco for operation as the Riviera Cafe. Later the operation was moved across the river to Kennewick, the old Portland being pushed into a revetment excavated from the river bank. The business failed and the shell of the once handsome river boat gradually fell apart amid the sand and thistles of the river bank. 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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| Portland (towboat) |
The wooden stern-wheel towboat Portland, of 801 tons, 185 feet in length and rifted with engines of 1,500 horsepower, was launched at Portland for the port authority of that city, being especially designed for handling deep-sea vessels on the Willamette River. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1919-1920, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 304. |
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| Portland (towboat) |
After an absence of more than 30 years, the sound of a stern-wheel steamboat's churning paddle-buckets and mellow whistle was heard on the upper Columbia River when the Port of Portland's 219-foot stern-wheel towboat Portland made a goodwill visit to the upriver ports which supply much of the export cargo for the Port of Portland. The steamer made stops at Hood River, The Dalles, Arlington, Umatilla and the Tri-Cities. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1972, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.113-4. |
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| Portland (tug) |
The tug Portland, launched at the Oregon metropolis April 9, 1875, was used on the Columbia and Willamette rivers for fifteen years, and was then taken to Puget Sound, where she is still running. Henry Wilson was her first master and owner, and Capt. O. S. Waud afterward purchased and ran her 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.233. |
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| Portland No. I (steam Ferry) |
A commodious steam ferry much larger than anything which had yet appeared was placed on the Willamette River and bore the name Portland No. I. She was a square built craft, one hundred and one feet long by forty feet beam, and was built at Westport for Joseph Knott, with Capt. S. S. Douglass, master. As originally planned, the boat was pulled across the river by a cable wound around a pair of big drums ten feet in diameter, but this afterward gave way to side wheels. Her engines were eight and one-half by eighteen inches, and she could transport sixteen teams at one trip. Knott sold the ferry December 1, 1865, to W. S. Ladd, E. M. Burton, S. N. Arrigoni and Col. A. P. Dennison for $35,000, but it was afterward repurchased by the Knotts, and run by Captains Sam and John Douglass for several years. 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.136-7. |
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| Porto Said |
See ARAWA. |
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| Portovan (tug) |
Straits Towing & Salvage Ltd. purchased a twin to the 40-foot steel tug Portovan in Montreal and brought her to Vancouver as the Harvan. This firm was most active in salvage operations in 1947, its accomplishments including the refloating of the British freighter Fort Reliance from the Fraser River sandheads by five of its tugs. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle:Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 546. |
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| Postboy (steamboat) |
Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 344. |
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| Posyet (trawler) |
The 278-foot Russian stern trawler Posyet ran into shoreside difficulties when she docked at Portland in May to give the 79 crew members a few days of rest and relaxation and to take on supplies. George McMurrick of Astoria filed a complaint against the vessel with the U. S. marshal, charging the loss of $5,425 worth of fishing gear and $1,000 worth of fish. While his attorney was preparing about $75,000 in other claims on behalf of other American fishermen whose set nets, crab and cod pots had been destroyed by Russian trawlers, the Posyet escaped to sea with the marshal in hot pursuit by helicopter and Coast Guard patrol boat, which lost the trawler in heavy fog on the lower Columbia. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.167. |
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| Posyet (trawler) |
The 278-foot Russian stern trawler Posyet ran into shoreside difficulties when she docked at Portland in May to give the 79 crew members a few days of rest and relaxation and to take on supplies. George McMurrick of Astoria filed a complaint against the vessel with the U. S. marshal, charging the loss of $5,425 worth of fishing gear and $1,000 worth of fish. While his attorney was preparing about $75,000 in other claims on behalf of other American fishermen whose set nets, crab and cod pots had been destroyed by Russian trawlers, the Posyet escaped to sea with the marshal in hot pursuit by helicopter and Coast Guard patrol boat, which lost the trawler in heavy fog on the lower Columbia. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1974, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.167. |
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| Potlatch |
The Potlatch, built in 1912, of steel, was the last and most pretentious of Hood Canal boats. She entered the service as soon as the Puget Sound Navigation Company accepted the delivery. She had the mail contract in conjunction wit passenger and freight cartage. Captain Alsmore was her master for a time; he in turn was replaced by Captain Carl H. Stevens, who was her master until 1917 when he was transferred to the Sol Duc on Victoria, B.C. run; I believe Captain Earl Whaley ran the Potlatch until trucks and stages caused her removal in 1918. Leslie Stevens, Boats on Hood Canal, memories of Leslie Stevens, Kitsap County History. Silverdale: Kitsap County Historical Society, 1977, Book One p. 30-31. |
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| Potlatch (steamer) |
Newell, Inland sea, p. 213. Built by Moran of Seattle. Torger Birkeland. Echoes of Puget Sound., p. 138-143. |
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| Potlatch (steamer) |
The steel passenger steamer Potlatch, built at Seattle in 1912 for the Hood Canal route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co., was scrapped at Seattle, her last owner having been Otis Shively. The vessel had been used but little since the abandonment of Hood Canal passenger service by the navigation company in 1917. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 458. |
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| Potlatch (steamer) |
The steel passenger steamer Potlatch, built at Seattle in 1912 for the Hood Canal route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co., was scrapped at Seattle, her last owner having been Otis Shively. The vessel had been used but little since the abandonment of Hood Canal passenger service by the navigation company in 1917. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 458. |
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| Potlatch (steamer) |
New vessel construction continued brisk in 1912. The Puget Sound Navigation Co. continued the policy established by President Green of replacing its aging wooden steamers with modern vessels of steel construction. Two fine passenger steamers, the Sol Duc and Potlatch, were completed by the Seattle Construction & Drydock Co., and ready for service by the summer of 1912. The Potlatch, replacing the old stern-wheeler State of Washington on the Hood Canal route, was of 575 tons with dimensions of 150 x 26.8 x 16.8, with a triple-expansion engine of 600 horsepower (15, 24, 38 x 24) with steam from two water tube boilers at 200 pounds pressure. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 204. |
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| Potomac |
See NECKAR (2) . |
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| Potomac (bng P. 79) |
Clinton Clinton Snowden, History of Washington, the rise and progress of an American State . History of Washington. III, p. 154. |
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| Potomac (brig) |
1852 Brig. Lost at the mouth of the Columbia River. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Cape Falcon to Cape Disappointment. Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland:Binfords and Mort, 1984, p. 130-133.. |
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| Potomac (brig) |
American brig, wrecked on the Columbia bar, near the middle sands, in early May, 1852, outbound for San Francisco with lumber. The cargo was jettisoned after the vessel struck and she bumped the shoals constantly for several hours. Finally she drifted free and was carried to Astoria with the tide and currents. There she was surveyed and pronounced a total constructive loss. Her master was Captain Addison Drinkwater. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Potomac (brig) |
Wrecked on the Columbia Bar in May 1852 outbound for San Francisco with lumber. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 178. |
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| Potomac (frigate) |
1,726 tons, 175' x 45' x 14'. Built at Washington Navy Yard, 1822; sold, Philadelphia, 1877. 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. 7- 8, 10, 17, 92. |
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| Potomac (yacht) |
Will be restored under a design by Seattle firm Nickum and Spaulding. Marine Digest, March 30, 1985, p. 9. (il) Crowley Maritime tug RETRIEVER linked to refurbishing of the POTOMAC. Marine Digest, June 29, 1985 p.21. FDR'S yacht POTOMAC to be reconstructed. Built in 1934, purchased by Port of Oakland (California) in 1981. Plans and specifications for remodeling drawn by naval architect firm, Nickum and Spaulding, Seattle. Marine Digest, September, 13, 1986, p. 7. FDR's Yacht restoration begins in Oakland, California. Marine Digest, December, 27, 1986, p. 6. |
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| Potosi (bark) |
Harold Underhill, Masting and Rigging., p. 1. |
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| Potrimpos (bark) |
December 19, 1896 Bark, German. Sailed out of Hamburg for Manzanillo, Mexico, then to the Columbia to pick up a cargo of grain. Under Captain Hellwegge, who waited in vain for a pilot boat to assist him across the bar, a failing wind caused the ship to drift helplessly to the north beach sands where she went aground and eventually became a total loss. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Cape Falcon to Cape Disappointment. Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland:Binfords and Mort, 1984, p. 130-133.. |
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| Potrimpos (bark) |
German bark, stranded on North Beach Peninsula, near Long Beach, December 19, 1896, without loss of life. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Potrimpos (bark) |
On December 19 the German bark Potrimpos, bound from Hamburg via Manzanillo for Portland in ballast, drifted ashore at 7:00 a. m. on the beach seven miles south of the Ilwaco lifesaving station. Although a strong southwest wind was blowing, a heavy fog shrouded the scene of the wreck and the lifesaving crew was not notified of the stranding until 9:30 a. m. High tide and surf hindered efforts to get the horse -drawn surf boat to the wreck, but the Ilwaco Rail- road & Navigation Co. dispatched a special train on the narrow-gauge seashore line to transport the boat and lifesaving crew to the scene. The mate and four seamen had, in the meantime, reached shore in one of the ship's boats, but 14 more of the German crew were still on the stranded bark. As the wreck was broadside to the sea and formed a lee for getting alongside, the surf boat was launched and successfully removed all hands, although she filled antinearly capsized in the surf on her second trip. The Cape Disappointment lifesaving crew also reached t |
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| Potrimpos (bark) |
The Potrimpos was operated by the famous Hamburg firm of F. Laeisz, the Flying P Line. These ships were engaged almost exclusively in the European - South American west coast trade and a call to the Northwest by one of them was extremely rare. In 1909 the Laeisz ship Purchim came to Puget Sound for lumber and it was not until after World War 2 that another Flying P liner came to the Northwest. This was the Pamir, owned in 1947 by the New Zealand goverment. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1896, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 7. |
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| Potsdam |
The "Potsdam" was a 12,606 gross ton ship, built in 1899 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for the Holland-America Line. Her details were - length 550ft x beam 62ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 15 knots. There was accommodation for 282-1st, 210-2nd and 1,800-3rd class passengers. Launched on 15/12/1899, she sailed from Rotterdam on her maiden voyage to New York on 17/5/1900. In 1904 her funnel was lengthened by 23 ft to improve draught and made this ship easily recognizable. She commenced her last voyage from Rotterdam to New York on 24/4/1915, and then went to the Swedish American Line and was renamed "Stockholm". She left Gothenburg on her first voyage for this company on 11/12/1915 and called at Kirkwall for contraband inspection on her way to New York. In 1922 she was reconditioned in Gothenburg, and her funnel reduced in height. Commenced her last voyage from Gothenburg to Halifax and New York on 29/9/1928 and in 1929 was converted to a Norwegian whale factory ship and renamed "Solglimt". In 1941 she was captured in the Antarctic by the German Armed Merchant Raider "Pinguin" and taken to Bordeaux. Later the same year she was put under the German flag and renamed "Sonderburg". On 29/6/1944 she was scuttled by the Germens at Cherbourg, raised in 1947 and scrapped. [ North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.3,p.912] |
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| Potter |
August Kautz. Northwest Journals of August V. Kautz, 1857-61, p. 81, 290. |
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| Potter, R.b (schooner) |
Lucile McDonald. Swan among the Indians., p. 55, 56, 57, 98. Purchased by Capt. Enoch S. Fowler in 1854 and leased it to Gov. Stevens for a mail and dispatch boat. Later used as mail packet between Olympia, Seattle, Port Townsend, and Victoria. Lucile McDonald, Where the Washingtonians lived, p. 82. Hazard, p. 123, 133, 136. |
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| Pounds Of Dressed Meat." |
I like the part about the steerage passengers being "comfortably accomodated"!! - [E-mail from Gay Parisano Raab - 2 October 1998] |
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| Powell River (motor Ship) |
The Norwegian - built diesel - powered cargo vessel Powell River, a 302-foot steel motorship with accommodations for 10 passengers, replaced the smaller Norwegian motorship Lutz in carrying newsprint from Powell River, B. C. to California ports in the service of the Canadian Gulf Steamship Company. The Poweel River was retained under Norwegian registry in the interests of economy. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1947, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966, p. 546. |
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| Power City (steamer) |
A gasoline stern-wheeler, Power City, 60 tons, 65 feet in length, was built at American Falls, Idaho, in 1910 for local service on the Snake River. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1910, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 174. |
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| Powerful (tug) |
Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 99 |
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| Powers (towboat) |
The stern-wheel towboat Powers of 1909 was abandoned by the U. S. Spruce Production Corp., her last operators. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 376. |
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| Powers (towboat) |
Powers, a 212 - ton towboat, 90 feet long, with 150 -horsepower engines, was built at North Bend, being later transferred to Portland and operated by the U. S. Spruce Production Corporation. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 1622. |
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| Powhatan (joins Pacific Squadron) |
Aurora Hunt, The Army of the Pacific., p. 300, 321. |
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| Powhatan (steam Frigate) |
3,765 tons, 254' x 45' x 18'. Two engines, 10+ knots, 630 tons coal. Built at Norfolk Navy Yard, 1847; sold, 1887. Armament; 16 9 single bore guns. Vincent Ponko, Jr. Ships, Seas, and Scientists, U.S. Naval Exploration and Discovery in the 19th Century. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1974., p. 138, 147-49, 152-53. |
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| President Polk (liner) |
Portland yard gets $20.2 million contract, Dillingham Ship Repair Yard gets job of converting liner into a transport auxiliary crane ship for the navy, The Marine Digest. September 21, 1985, p. 5. |
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| Propontis |
See PRINCE LINE FREIGHTERS |
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| R. B. Potter (schooner) |
James McCurdy, By Juan De Fuca's Strait.. p. 57, 64, 107, 138. |
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| Rei De Portugal |
See NAPOLITAN PRINCE. |
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| Renamed Cyprian Prince, Wrecked Off Coast Of Portu |
[Posted to both Ships Lists by Louis Alfano - 15 October 1997] |
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| Reporter (schooner) |
The Reporter, a three-masted schooned of 350 tons, was built at Port Ludlow in 1876 by Hall Brothers. for their own ownership, and was afloat in 1900. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. August 2, 1941, p. 2 |
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| Reporter (schooner) |
The Reporter, a three-masted schooned of 350 tons, was built at Port Ludlow in 1876 by Hall Brothers. for their own ownership, and was afloat in 1900. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers 1850- 1905, The Marine Digest. August 2, 1941, p. 2 |
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| Reporter (schooner) |
The 337-ton lumber schooner Reporter, Capt. Adolph Hansen, built by Hall Bros. in 1876 when their yard was still located at Port Ludlow, was wrecked March 13 south of Grays Harbor. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1902, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 83. |
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| Republic (transport) |
The transport Republic, 18,000-ton former Atlantic liner built at Belfast in 1907 as the President Grant and, with her sister Hamburg-American liner President Lincoln, noted as one of the world's only sixmasted steamships, was sold for scrap after a period of layup at the Olympia reserve fleet. The 599-foot vessel was towed to Panama by the tugs Donna Foss and Agnes Foss. Two Moran Towing & Transportation Co. tugs from New York took over the tow there and delivered the old liner to East Coast scrappers. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1952-53, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle :Superior Publishing Company, 1966., p. 588. |
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| Roche Point (motor Vessel) |
Canadian motor vessel, 31 tons, foundered off Cape Beale, August 5, 1930. J.A. Gibbs, Shipwrecks off Juan De Fuca Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1968. |
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| S. L. Roch (power Schooner) |
One vessel destined to gain a prominent place in the maritime annals of the Northwest, the power schooner S. L. Roch, was completed by the Burrard Dry Dock Co. and departed Vancouver in the summer of 1928 on her first patrol cruise to the Arctic in the service of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 385. |
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| Salmo Point |
Built in Tacoma in 1929. eighty-five foot vessel. The Salmo Point, The Marine Digest. March 12, 1983, p. 14. (il). |
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| Salmo Point (canner Tender) |
The H. C. Hanson-designed cannery tender Salmo Point, 85-feet long with twin 90-horsepower Atlas diesels, was built at Tacoma for use at Cordova. Hanson also designed the 130-foot U. S. Fisheries patrol boat Penguin with 400-horsepower Union diesel, built by Ballard Marine Railway for Pribiloff Island service. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 402. |
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| Santiago (transport) |
In August, 1774, Juan Perez in command, the Spanish transport Santiago discovered the west coast of Queen Charlotte's Island, and entered what Captain Cook afterward called Nootka Sound. From there Perez sailed south and found nothing. In 1775 Perez was followed by two other vessels, the Santiago and the Sonora, the former in command of Bruno Heceta, with Perez as pilot, the other by Lieut. Bodega Quadra. The Santiago made the land in 48 27' and crept cautiously down the coast, keeping close in-shore, but failing to find the much-sought straits. Heceta, however, came very near blundering on a most important discovery. He sailed up to the mouth of a seeming large river, but, being unable to enter, be concluded it was of no great importance, and sailed away after naming the high promontory at its entrance Cape St. Roc, a name which the Spaniards afterward transferred to the river, although it was left for an American to rediscover and make known its grand commercial advantages. Quadra, who was accompanied by A |
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| Seaport (fish Boat) |
Stranded on the south jetty of the Columbia River, June 22, 1950. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 181. |
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| Seaport (fishboat) |
American gas propelled fishboat, 36 tons, stranded one-half mile southeast of the northwest end of the south jetty of the Columbia River bar, June 22, 1950. The vessel was built the previous year. James A. Gibbs, Jr. Pacific Graveyard. A narrative of the ships lost where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190 |
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| Seattle (combat Support Ship) |
Seattle (AOE-3), fast combat support ship of the Sacramento class, from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton. The 796-foot vessel of 58,000 tons, a few inches longer than the Sacramento, became the largest ship yet built on the Pacific Coast. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.65. |
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| Shaver Transporation Company |
Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-1930, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior, 1966.. The Shaver Transportation Co. and Smith Transportation Co. of Portland were consolidated in 1930, following earlier unsuccessful efforts to merge six of the larger Columbia and Willamette River towing companies (Shaver, Sniith, Hosford, Callender, Knappton and Willamefte & Columbia River). The Shaver Transportation Co. took over the Smith fleet consisting of the Logger, Wilavis, Smithy, Nora and Deck Boy, and the Service (ex-Inland Empire) of the subsidiary Oregon Towing Co., which was dismantled. The Smithy, renamed Klickitat, and Wilavis, renamed Cowlitz, are still in the Shaver fleet. For some time Capt. MUton Sniith retained a 50% interest in the Shaver Transportation Co. The Wheeler Lumber Co. steam tug Geo. R. Vosberg of 1900 was acqtdred by the newly - organized Anchor Towing Co. of Portland and refitted as the diesel George M. Brown, being intended for use in outside towing. Go |
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| Sherman (army Transport) |
William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century,p . 54. |
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| South Portland (steamer) |
October 19, 1903 Steamer, brought from the east coast by Boston & Alaska S.S. Co. in 1899. En route Portland-San Francisco under the command of part-owner Captain J. B. McIntyre, the vessel carried a wheat cargo, 14 passengers and a crew of 25. She struck Cape Blanco reef bow-on at seven knots and immediately began to fill; the first boat away contained the captain; two other boats capsized. Mate Charles Bruce remained aboard and tried to run the sinking vessel to shore. He later endeavored to protect the captain by testifying that he asked the captain to leave; 18 souls perished from drowning and exposure. The captain was found criminally negligent for leaving the ship. The South Portland's name-board drifted north to Cape Lookout and is now on display at the Boy Scouts of America Camp Meriwether. The ship was a total loss. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Oregon California Border, Chetco to Blacklock Point, Oregon Shipwrecks. p. 26-28 |
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| South Portland (steamer) |
October 19, 1903 Steamer, brought from the east coast by Boston & Alaska S.S. Co. in 1899. En route Portland-San Francisco under the command of part-owner Captain J. B. McIntyre, the vessel carried a wheat cargo, 14 passengers and a crew of 25. She struck Cape Blanco reef bow-on at seven knots and immediately began to fill; the first boat away contained the captain; two other boats capsized. Mate Charles Bruce remained aboard and tried to run the sinking vessel to shore. He later endeavored to protect the captain by testifying that he asked the captain to leave; 18 souls perished from drowning and exposure. The captain was found criminally negligent for leaving the ship. The South Portland's name-board drifted north to Cape Lookout and is now on display at the Boy Scouts of America Camp Meriwether. The ship was a total loss. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Oregon-California Border. Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1984, p. 26-28. |
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| South Portland (steamer) |
The well-known steamer South Portland, originally the British Dawn, brought around from the East Coast in 1898 by the short-lived Boston & Alaska Steamship Co., struck on Blanco Reef October 19 while on a voyage from Portland for San Francisco with a cargo of wheatandcarrying 14 passengers and a crew of 25. The vessel was in command of Capt. J. B. McIntyre, who had commanded steam schooners out of San Francisco and had recently become a part owner of the South Portland. The steamer struck the reef bow-on while moving at about seven knots, and immediately began to fill and settle. Testimony of passengers and crew indicated that the first boat away-from the sinking vessel contained Capt. McIntyre. There was apparently considerable confusion in launching the boats and two of them, including the captain's capsized after reaching the water. Chief mate Charles Bruce remained aboard for some time, attempting to run the sinking steamer as close as possible to the shore while steam remained in the boilers. (He afterwa |
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| South Portland (steamer) |
The Boston and Alaska Company brought out the South Portland, another old British iron steamer built as the Dawn for the West Indies fruit trade. On her first voyage she was wrecked on Hogsty Reef on the north coast of Cuba and was afterward raised, repaired, and placed under American registry as the Caroline Miller, her name being changed to South Portland upon her purchase by the Boston & Alaska Company. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1898, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 34. |
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| Spokane (ferry) |
Spokane skipper questioned about near miss in the fog with the tug Sea Racer on December 9, 1985, The Marine Digest. February 15, 1986, p. 9. A near miss, The Marine Digest. February 15, 1986, p. 9+ Spokane master Captain Alan Gill, loses license for thirty days for unsafe speed; acquitted on charge of not adhering to passanging arrangements, The Marine Digest. March 8, 1986, p. 3+ |
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| Spokane (ferry) |
The first of the two larger super ferries being built at the Todd Seattle yard for the Washington State Ferry System, the 440-foot Spokane, was launched in April, while a Walla Walla Indian chief was on hand to cut a ribbon to signal the keel-laying of the second ferry, Walla Walla. Spokane tribal queen Carol Sterns, attended by Chief Alex Sherwood in full regalia, christened the Spokane. The Walla Walla was launched in October. Said to be the largest double-ended ferries in the world, the new class of vessels have a capacity of 2,000 passengers and 206 vehicles with a service speed of 20 knots. They are diesel-electric powered at 8,500 horsepower, with single screws at each end. They are provided with amenities unique in the Puget Sound ferry fleet, including heated observation solariums on the boat deck and elegantly appointed dining rooms. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1972, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.114. |
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| Spokane (ferry) |
The two 440-foot, 20-knot Washington State ferries Spokane and Walla Walla, launched at the Todd Seattle yard the previous year, successfully passed their trials on Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca during 1973 and were placed in service. Since the two identical ends of the huge ferries are fitted with independent controls, 8,500-horsepower diesel-electric engines, single propellers and rudders, the various sea trials had to be conducted twice to prove each end. The Spokane replaced the old superferry Kaleetan of 1967 on the Seattle-Winslow route, the latter vessel being transferred to the Edmonds-Kingston route. The Walla Walla first entered the seasonal Anacortes-San Juan Islands-British Columbia service, joining her sister ferry at Seattle in the fall. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1973, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975., p.138. |
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| Spokane (lake Steamer) |
1938 Steamer on Coeur d'Alene Lake capsized. Five drowned. Possibly the previously listed vessel. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| Spokane (schooner) |
The four masted schooner, Spokane, of 639 tons and 800 M lumber capacity was built at Port Blakely by Hall Brothers in 1890 for the Puget Sound Commerical Company. In 1899 she made the passage from Honolulu to Flattery in 8 days 10 hours; while in October, 1914, was ashore on Protection Island, bound from San Francisco to Port Ludlow, later being pulled off. In 1917 she was bought by the Fife Shipping Co., and resold in 1921 to H. G. Seaborn, Seattle. Her last voyage was to the Solomon Islands to San Francisco in 1922, after which she was laid up at Seattle, and in 1925 was sold to the Foss Co. for a barge. She went to the shipbreakers in January, 1941. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905,The Marine Digest. August 23, 1941. p. 2 |
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| Spokane (schooner) |
The four masted schooner, Spokane, of 639 tons and 800 M lumber capacity was built at Port Blakely by Hall Brothers in 1890 for the Puget Sound Commerical Company. In 1899 she made the passage from Honolulu to Flattery in 8 days 10 hours; while in October, 1914, was ashore on Protection Island, bound from San Francisco to Port Ludlow, later being pulled off. In 1917 she was bought by the Fife Shipping Co., and resold in 1921 to H. G. Seaborn, Seattle. Her last voyage was to the Solomon Islands to San Francisco in 1922, after which she was laid up at Seattle, and in 1925 was sold to the Foss Co. for a barge. She went to the shipbreakers in January, 1941. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850- 1905,The Marine Digest. August 23, 1941. p. 2 |
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| Spokane (schooner) |
The former four-masted schooner Spokane of 1890, last owned as a barge by the Foss Launch & Tug Co., was sold for scrap after lying idle on Lake Washington for some years.Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1940, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest,p . 484. |
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| Spokane (schooner) |
The four-masted schooner Spokane, buut by Hall Bros. in 1890, was sold by the Puget Mill Co. to Henry Seaborn of Seattle. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1918, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 298. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
Aprl 5, 1887 This popularly named ship was built on the Snake River by A. H. Butler in 1882 and put to work on the Snake, Flathead, Pend Oreille and Kootenai lakes. Her pilot discovered the mistake of taking his passenger's advice during the Spokane's maiden trip up and then down the Coeur d'Alene River; she struck a snag and capsized, drowning City Clerk of Spokane Mr. J. C. Hanna, Col. N. J. Higgins of Bangor, Maine, L. Pike from Portland, Edward Jerome of Lewiston and one unknown. Raised and re-named Irene. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
The Steamship Spokane, later the Admiral Rogers, The Sea Chest. December, 1981, p. 46-56. Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 9, 141-46, 152, 165, 185. A bully day for steamers. An account of Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Seattle, May 23, 1903, The Marine Digest. November 9, 1985, p. 18-19. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 35-36, 172. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
At Riparia, Washington the 0. R. & N. launched two big boats, the Spokane and Lewiston, for wheat hauling on the Snake River between Asotin and Riparia. Spokane was 166 feet long and of 580 horsepower; Lewiston 160.5 feet, with 850 horsepower. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 48. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
The finest vessel yet to fly the house flag of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. appeared in 1902 with the completion at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, of the steamship Spokane, especially designed for the growing Alaska tourist excursion trade which had developed as a result of the international attention focused on that territory by the recent gold finds in the Klondike, at Cape Nome, Copper River and in other arelas. The Spokane was a steel, single-screw vessel of 2,277 tons, with dimensions of 270.1 x 40.1 x 17.3, powered by a triple-expansion engine with cylinders 23;/2, 40, and 66 inches. She was fitted out to carry 171 first-class passengers in most comfortable accommodations. In addition she had facilities for 1 00 in steerage, for even though she was designed primaruy for the excursion trade, the heavy seasonal movement of cannery workers to the north made the transportation of steerage passengers a profitable segment of steamship operation on the North Pacific, as it was on a much larger scale on th |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's crack excursion steamer Spokane steaming north on a two -week cruise with 160 tourists, struck an uncharted rock in Seymour Narrows on the night of June 29, 1911 opening up her hull below the waterline on the starboard side. Capt. J. E. Guptfll immediately set a course for Plumper Bay, where the sinking vessel was beached 40 minutes later, Chief Engineer W. F. Matthews and his crew being waist-deep in water before the safety of shallow water was reached. Mrs. Gardner F. Williams, a prominent society woman of Washington, D. C., was drowned by the rising water in the steamer, while Mrs. J. E. Strauss of Philadelphia collapsed and died of a heart attack in one of the ship's boats. As the Spokane was driven toward the shallows of Plumper Bay she began listing from side to side in a threatening manner, prompting two panic-stricken passengers to jump overboard, a hundred more immediately following them like so many sheep. It was only with the greatest difficulty that they were |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
The small steamer Spokane struck a snag in the Coeur d'Alene River, April 5th, and capsized, drowning Edward Jerome of Lewiston, L. Pike of Portland, Col. N. J. Higgin, of Bangor, Me., J. C. Hanna of Spokane, and an unknown deckhand. 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.351. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
The sternwheel steamer Spokane was constructed on the Kootenai River in 1891 by G. R. Gray, a railroad contractor, and was afterward secured by the Columbia & Kootenai Navigation Company, continuing in their service until 1895, when she was destroyed by fire at Kaslo. She had recently been commanded by Captains Hayward and McMorris. 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.388. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
The steamer Spokane, owned by the Columbia & Kootenai Steam Navigation Company, burned at Kaslo in May, 1895. She was lying at the dock, with considerable freight aboard, when, at 9:30 A.M., fire was discovered, and it spread so rapidly that she became a total loss in a few minutes. 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.424. |
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| Spokane (steamer) |
Master Builder Holland of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company broke the record for steamboat building in the construction of the Spokane, completing her in thirty-two days and six hours. She is one hundred and fifty feet long, thirty-two feet beam, and four feet eight inches hold, with engines from the Colonel Wright fourteen by forty-eight inches, and was launched at Celilo in November, 1877. Capt. J. W. Troup was in command during the first year, and E. W. Spencer had charge of her in 1878. Capt. George Gore was with her in 1882 and 1883, using her to carry stone for the railroad bridge at Ainsworth. For the next ten years she was commanded by Capt. John Stump and Captains E. W. and Harry Baughman, the latter having charge of her in 1894. She was rebuilt in 1888 and is apparently good for several years of service. 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.2 |
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| Spokane (stern Wheeler) |
The big wheat carrying stern - wheel steamers Lewiston and Spokane of the Oregon, Washington Railway & Navigation Co. were destroyed by fire while tied up at their Lewiston, Idaho dock on July 12. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1922, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 330. |
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| Spokane (sternwheeler) |
May 1895 Sternwheeler, 400 tons, 125' long, built in 1891 at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, owned by Columbia-Kootenai Navigation Co. Both cargo and vessel destroyed by fire at either Kalso, British Columbia or Kelso, Washington. Most likely it occured at the British Columbia location. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| St. Anthony (power Boat) |
One of the unfortunate accidents to northern Power boats occurred when that well-known Ketchikan power boat, St. Anthony, burned after going on the rocks just out from Metlakahtla. The St. Anthony had left Metlakahtla early Sunday morning. She had seven passengers bound for Ketchika ' n. At the time she Ieft there was a heavy snowstorm, and in the blinding mist she ran onto a reef. The smiall boat was sent back for help, but before it had gone a great distance the St. Anthony heeled over and caught fire. She *as rigged with a stove. The passengers had to suffer from the cold until the Eagle, in charge of Paul Mather, reached them. The St. Anthony was a seven-ton boat, and owned by the M. & M. Bank. -She was powered with a Union 20 horse-power engine from Campbell Brothers, Seattle. The engine was not badly damaged by the wreck, and will be repaired. The St. Anthony will be remembered as a winning boat in the long distance races from Ketchikan last year. (Western Yacht and Launchman. II (February 15, 1911), p. |
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| Storm Point (tug) |
During the summer the tug Storm Point, in charge of Capt. Len Helsing and towing the barge SN No. 1, was involved in the sinking of a small sailboat in English Bay, Vancouver, B.C. The tug was outbound from False Creek, while the 16 1/2-foot sailboat, manned by two California men, was en route to enter a race when she collided with the barge. A federal court later attributed 75 percent of the blame to the tug and 25 percent to the sailboat, the tug not having the required crew on board at the time of the accident. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.87. |
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| T. J. Potter |
The T. J. Potter - Queen of Excursion Boats, by Fritzen Timmen, Sou'wester III, Summer 1968, p. 28. |
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| T. J. Potter (steamer) |
The splendid sidewheel packet T J. Potter of 1888 (named for the first vice president in charge of Union Pacific Western operations untu his death in 1888), was completely rebuilt, slightly longer, but on the same general lines, with dimensions of 233.7 x 35.6 x 11.4, and tonnage of 533. She was fitted with even more luxurious furnishings than the original boat, the ornate blue dome over the pilot house being particularly noticeable. She was registered with customs June 18 and then took her place on the ocean beach run with Capt. J. L. Turner in command, leaving the Ash Street Dock at 7:00 a.m. daily and six hours later arriving at Ilwaco for rail connections to the ocean resorts. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1901. W. H. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 70. |
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| T. J. Potter (steamer) |
Port Captain J. W. Troup, of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, demonstrated his ability as a practical steamboatman in 1888 by building the T. J. Potter, the fastest sidewheel steamer in the Northwest. The Potter was modeled after the famous Hudson River steamer Daniel Drew, but Troup made some changes of material benefit in the design. She is two hundred and thirty feet long, thirty-five feet beam, and ten feet four inches hold, with engines thirty-two by ninety-six inches. The house and upper works were taken from the old Wide West, and no faster or finer steamer of her size has ever floated. She was placed on the seaside route soon after completion, in charge of Archie L. Pease, captain; Edward Sullivan, pilot; Thomas Smith, chief engineer; Phil Carnes, assistant; and Daniel O'Neil, purser. She made remarkable time on that run and was taken off in September and sent to Puget Sound, Captain Pease, Engineer Smith and Steward Charles Petrie, going with her. She was engaged on the Seattle and Olympia ro |
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| T.j.potter (sidewheeler) |
Built in Portland in 1888. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Seap. 215. Built of Oregon wood. North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, II, p. 124, 156. William D. Lyman. The Columbia River, p. 248. Queen of the excursion boats, The Sou'wester. III (Summer, 1968) p. 28. Off for oean port on the T.J. Potter, The Sou-wester. I (Summer, 1966), p. 33-36. The T.J. Potter sails on in memory, The Sea Chest. X (March, 1977), p. 79. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 353. Archie Binns, Sea in the Forest p. 113. |
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| Thomas (military Transport) |
William L. Worden. Cargoes, Matson First Century, p. 54. |
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| Three Holy Apostles |
Aurel Krause. Tlingit Indians. American Ethnological Society., p. 222, 227-28. |
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| Tongue Point (steamer) |
An 87-ton gasoline stern-wheeler equipped for dredging, the Tongue Point was built at Portland, remaining in service until 1931, when she was abandoned. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 191. |
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| Trader (power Schooner) |
Capt. Alexander Allan, who had recently lost the gas schooner H. E. Dwyer in Kuskokwim River operation, repurchased a half interest in the power schooner Trader built by him in 1908, and reentered the Point Barrow trade. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 202. |
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| Transport |
Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 215. |
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| Transport (steamer) |
Capt. Harry Barlow and William Marmont, marine engineer, purchased the Sound freight steamer Transport and entered her in independent operation between various Puget Sound ports. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1906, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 123. |
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| Transporter (barge) |
Cement Transporter, combination bulk carrier and paper barge, by McKenzie Barge & Derrick Company, Dollarton, B.C., for Georgia Shipping Ltd. Designed by Derek S. Cove and the first of its kind on the coast, the 150 x 43-foot Transporter was fitted to carry bulk cement in the lower hold; supplies and paper topside. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1966, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976, p.XX. |
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| Uss Detroit (combat Support Ship) |
Also joining the fleet at Bremerton in 1970 was USS Detroit (AOE-4), the third of the giant Sacramento class combat support ships built at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. She was subsequently stationed at Newport, Rhode Island. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.77. |
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| Walpole |
Brought supplies to Astoria Charles H. Carey. General History of Oregon. 1971., II, p. 547. Herbert H. Bancroft, History of Oregon., II, p. 48. |
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| Washcalore (power Schooner) |
Losses in 1911 included the power schooner Washcalore, San Francisco for Astoria, wrecked May 21, 1911, near the Rogue River. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. p. 197. |
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| West Point |
See AMERICA (5).. |
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| Western Metropolis |
The WESTERN METROPOLIS was a wooden side-paddle steamship built by F. Z. Tucker, Brooklyn, and launched in 1863, for George Griswold, A. Benner, William Wall, and others; contemporary reports list her as belonging to the firm of Benner & Brown. 2,269 tons as built (remeasured in 1865 at 2,092 tons); 285 ft 4 in x 40 ft 8 in x 23 ft (length x breadth x depth of hold); draft 16 ft; straight stem, 1 funnel, 2 masts. Her engine (75 inch bore; 12 foot stroke) had been built in 1848 by Merrick & Towne, Philadelphia, and had served two Great Lakes steamers, the EMPIRE STATE, built in 1848, and the WESTERN METROPOLIS, built in 1856--it is from this vessel that she took her name--new boilers, wheels, and general reconditioning by Morgan Iron Works. Described by a contemporary, Capt. George H. Norton, as a "very slow, clumsy, unwieldy, hard steering steamer". Chartered by the Quartermaster Corps immediately upon completion for $850 per day, and kept in continuous use from December 1863 until late January 1865. First voyage, New York-New Orleans; on the return voyage, seized the steamer ROSITA, with a cargo of munitions and liquor, and towed her prize into Key West on 29 January 1864. Spent most of 1864 ferrying troops and supplies between New York and Hampton Roads, in support of the Union Army's activities in Virginia; northbound, carried hundreds of sick and wounded. December 1864, loaded troops for the attack on Fort Fisher. 20 February 1865, single roundtrip (and first commercial) voyage, New York-Greytown, chartered to M. O. Roberts. April 1865, single roundtrip voyage, New York-New Orleans, chartered to H. B. Cromwell & Co. May-July 1865, New York-New Orleans, chartered by Quartermaster Corps. August 1865, single roundtrip voyage, New York-New Orleans, chartered to W. H. Robson & Co; returned with a record cargo of 3,000 bales of cotton. 30 September 1865, single roundtrip voyage (her only voyage for her original owners, Benner & Brown), New York-Apalachicola, Florida, returning with a cargo of cotton. November 1865, sold to Ruger Brothers. Originally advertised to sail for the Ruger Brothers' North American Lloyd Line to Bremen via Southampton on 17 March 1866, the WESTERN METROPOLIS did not sail until 28 June 1866. However, she had been refitted with paddle wheels that shed their floats in anything but a dead calm, and the WESTERN METROPOLIS was forced to turn around and put in to Boston, which she reached on 6 July 1866, before all the paddles were lost. After temporary repairs, on 10 July 1866, she sailed for New York (arrived 19 July), unable to continue the voyage to Bremen; laid up. Late 1866, together with the other vessels of the North American Lloyd Line, sold to Isaac Taylor's New York & Bremen Steamship Co. 7 March 1867, first voyage, New York-Cowes-Bremen (arrived after a voyage of 17 days). Continued to make eastbound sailings at approximately eight-week intervals. 24 August 1867, sailed from New York on fourth (and last) voyage for New York & Bremen Steamship Co; 8 September 1867, arrived at Southampton with a broken shaft; repaired at Southampton, and proceeded on to Bremen; on return passage, reached New York 6 November 1867, from Bremen 20 October 1867 and Cowes 22 October 1867, with 921 passengers; there had been 3 deaths on the passage: an infant, a case of delirium tremens, and a case of apoplexy. 30 June 1868, sold for $57,000; her new owner advertised her for sale for the rest of 1868 and all of 1869, without success. 1870, acquired by Merchants' Steamship Co, Frederic Baker, agent, for its New York-New Orleans service. 12 March and 9 April 1870, two roundtrip voyages, New York-New Orleans. 18 May 1870, Capt. H. S. Quick, sailed from New York for Havre-Bremen-Copenhagen-Swinemunde-Kiel-Christiansand, chartered to Ruger Brothers. Returned by the northern route, arriving New York 7 July 1870, with 954 passengers; from the Shetlands to Newfoundland the weather had been cold and foggy: 3 infants among the passengers died, as did one sailor, of pneumonia. September 1870, returned to New York-New Orleans service. October 1871, port shaft cracked on voyage from New York to New Orleans; shaft replaced at sea. February-August 1873, laid up. 13 February 1875, last voyage, New York-New Orleans-New York (arrived 9 March 1875). March 1875, Merchants' Steamship Co ceased operations. 1875-1878, laid up; several changes of ownership reported; last sale to Cornelius Delamater, who bought her for $15,000. March 1878, at the Delamater Iron Works, on the North River side of Manhattan, where her engine was removed. I have no information on her later history or ultimate fate [Cedric Ridgely-Nevitt, American Steamships on the Atlantic (Newark: University of Delaware Press, [1981], pp. 329-330]. - |
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| Westport (sidewheeler) |
December 18, 1886 Sidewheeler, 201 tons, 118'x 22'x 5.6', engines 10 x 16 , built at Westport, Oregon in 1878. Burned at Westport. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| Westport (steamer) |
Capt. S. S. Douglass, the pioneer ferryman of Portland, built the sidewheel steamer Westport, which received her name from the town where she was constructed. She was one hundred and eighteen feet long, twenty-two feet beam, and five feet six inches hold, with geared engines ten by sixteen inches, which were handled from the pilot-house, the captain having full control while making a landing. She made a few trips on the seaside route, and was subsequently operated as a general jobbing boat, making a specialty of carrying parties of sportsmen from Portland to the shooting-grounds on the lower river during the hunting season. She was burned at Westport in December, 1886. 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.260. |
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| Whampoa |
See MANILLA. |
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| Zapora (motorship) |
Tacoma ship sunk in Alaska, runs aground in a blinding gale, 27 on board are saved, The Tacoma News Tribune. February 16, 1937. |
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| Zapora (motorship) |
Losing her way in a heavy snowstorm early on the morning of February 12, the motorship Zapora of the Alaska Transportation Co. struck on the rocks at Admiralty Island, 80 miles south of Juneau, and was subsequently pounded to pieces by the surf. Her seven passengers and crew of 19 reached shore safely and were taken to Juneau by the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa. The historic vessel, built as the first American halibut steamer designed for that trade in the North- west was en route from Seattle for Hoonah and Petersburg, having been the first to clear at the settlement of the recent waterfront strike. The 350-horsepower engine was salvaged from the wreck and used by the Foss Launch & Tug Co. to replace the steam plant of the former Coast Guard cutter Arcata in towing service as the Patricia Foss. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 457. |
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| Zapora (motorship) |
Built in 1905 by Crawford and Reed of Tacoma. Tacoma Ship sunk in Alaska, 27 on board are saved, The Tacoma News Tribune. February 16, 1937. Memories of the Little Zapora, The Sea Chest. (December 1984), p. 64-70. ALF p. 77-79. The fishing steamer Zapora is one of the best boats of her kin on the coast. Tacoma Daily News. 1907 Annual Edition. p. 36. |
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| Zapora (motorship) |
Losing her way in a heavy snowstorm early on the morning of February 12, the motorship Zapora of the Alaska Transportation Co. struck on the rocks at Admiralty Island, 80 miles south of Juneau, and was subsequently pounded to pieces by the surf. Her seven passengers and crew of 19 reached shore safely and were taken to Juneau by the Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa. The historic vessel, built as the first American halibut steamer designed for that trade in the North- west was en route from Seattle for Hoonah and Petersburg, having been the first to clear at the settlement of the recent waterfront strike. The 350-horsepower engine was salvaged from the wreck and used by the Foss Launch & Tug Co. to replace the steam plant of the former Coast Guard cutter Arcata in towing service as the Patricia Foss. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.,p. 457. |
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| Zapora (steamer) |
The former steamer Zapora of the Wills Navigation Co. C. was sold at U. S. marshal's auction in Seattle to the Lake Union Dry Dock & Machine Works for $16,500, this company having bid in the vessel to protect claims against her for repairs and overhaul. The Zapora had recently received a 350-horsepower diesel engine to replace her original steam plant. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1932, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 418. |
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| Zapora (steamer) |
The former fishing steamer Zapora was completely rebuilt from the main deck up at Seattle for the freight and passenger service of the Wills Navigation Co. (George H. Wills and Capt. J. H. Forman) from Puget Sound to Prince of Wales Island, Chatham Straits and Sitka. Stateroom accommodations for 16 passengers were provided, with hot and cold running water, steam heat and a commodious dining hall. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1929-30, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 402. |
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| Zapora (steamer) |
The 318-ton halibut fishing steamer Zapora, 146 x 24 x 11.4, with 1,000-horsepower engine, was launched by Crawford & Reid at Tacoma for the International Fisheries Company and placed in service the following year. Gordon Newell, Martime Events of 1904, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 106. |
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| Zapora (steamer) |
The halibut steamer Zapora, largest vessel on the Puget Sound fishing fleet, ran on an unmarked rock near Middle Point, five miles west of Port Townsend March 19, 1911, damaging her wheel and starting a number of seams. Repairs were made at Tacoma. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1911, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 196. |
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| Zina (power Launch) |
A classic powerboat, Pierce County Magazine. (January, 1982), p. 38. |
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