| Resolute | August Kautz. Northwest Journals of August V. Kautz, 1857-61, p. 198, 228, 234, 235, 237. Collides with the Northerner, August Kautz. Northwest Journals of August V. Kautz, 1857-61, p. 255, 281-82. Louis C. Hunter. Steamboats on the Western Rivers., p. 457. |
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| Resolute (1) | The RESOLUTE was a three-masted, square-rigged ship, built by William H. Webb, New York, in 1857, for the Black Star "Line" of New York-Liverpool packets managed by Williams & Guion. Tonnage variously given as 1,645 (Fairburn and Matthews)/1,513 (Cutler); 190 x 40 x 28 feet (length x beam x depth of hold). In the late 1860's, the RESOLUTE, like the other sailing packets, was transferred to service as a general trader, [carrying] coal to ports of the Pacific and the East Coast of South America; barrel oil and cotton to Europe; case oil to the Far East; guano from the Peruvian deposits, etc. In 1871, she was purchased from Williams & Guion by Capt. Jonathan C. Nickels, of Searsport, Maine, to replace his ship WILD ROVER, which had been wrecked. After a few voyages on the RESOLUTE, Nickels retired, being succeeded as captain by his brother, E. D. P. Nickels, then by Wilson C. Nichols, of Searsport, who on a voyage bound from Cardiff to Valparaiso, when a few days from Rio de Janeiro, disappeared from the vessel under mysterious circumstances. The mate turned the vessel back to New Orleans, the closest American port, where E. D. P. Nickels resumed command, and sailed for Europe with a cargo of cotton. Later the RESOLUTE took lumber from Quebec to Australia, proceeding to Hong Kong and New York. She was then "sold Dutch", though she continued to sail under her original name. She was an exceptionally strong vessel, being diagonally iron-strapped, and was one of the few vessels to escape major damage in the tidal wave that swept the coast of Peru in May 1877. In March 1886, rigged as a bark and bound from Philadelphia to Europe, she was abandoned in a sinking condition [Frederick C. Matthews, American Merchant Ships, 1850-1900 [Series I], Marine Research Society Publication No. 21 (Salem: Marine Research Society, 1931), pp. 260-63; William Armstrong Fairburn, Merchant Sail (Center Lovell, Maine: Fairburn Marine Educational Foundation, [1945-55]), II.1255; III.1681; V.2801, 2803, 2806, 2809, 3488; Carl C. Cutler, Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America's Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, c1961) p. 389]. |
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| Resolute (2) | The "Resolute" was built by AG Weser, Bremen in 1914 for the Hamburg America Line. She was a 19,653 gross ton ship, length 590.4ft x beam 72.2ft, three funnels, two masts, triple screw and a speed of 17 knots. There was accommodation for 290-1st, 320-2nd and 400-3rd class passengers. Launched on 30/3/1914 as the "William O'Swald", she never sailed under that name and was laid up incomplete and transferred in 1916 to Royal Holland Lloyd as reparation for Dutch neutral ships sunk by Germany. She was renamed "Brabantia" and from 1920 was used in the South American service. She was resold in 1922 to the United American Line, renamed "Resolute" and on 11/4/1922 commenced sailing between Hamburg, Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. In 1923 she came under the Panamanian flag and commenced her last voyage on this service on 13/7/1926. In 1926 she was sold to Hamburg America Line and on 10/8/1926 started sailing between Hamburg, Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. She was refitted in June 1930 to carry 1st, tourist and 3rd class passengers, and again in June 1931 to carry 1st and tourist class only. She commenced her last Hamburg - New York voyage on 22/8/1933 and was then used for cruising. On 22/8/1935 she was sold to Italy for scrapping, but was taken over by the Italian government, renamed "Lombardia", refitted to carry 103-1st class and 4,400 troops. Employed as a troopship for the Abyssinian War under the management of Lloyd Triestino and later in the Mediterranean, she was bombed and sunk in dock by allied planes in 1943 at Naples. In 1947 she was scrapped at Spezia. [ North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.1, p.417] [ Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.4, Hamburg America Line] |
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| Resolute (hms) | HMS Resolute, The Beaver. CCXCII (Winter, 1961), p. 11-17. |
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| Resolute (schooner) | Resolute, four-masted schooner of 684 tons and 850 M capacity, was built at Hoquiam, Wash., in 1902 by Hitching and Joyce E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco. In 1916 she had a mutiny on board, and the master's wife, Mrs. Anna Endresen, subsequently sued for $40,000 salvage, for her services in saving the ship when the crew refused duty. The schooner continued in deep-water trading until 1923, when she was sold to Whitney-Bodden, Mobile, and went around to the Gulf. In 1928 she was sold at auction by the U. S. marshal at Mobile for $750, and was converted to a barge at New York, her registry being abandoned in 1932. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. August 2, 1941, p. 2 |
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| Resolute (schooner) | Resolute, four-masted schooner of 684 tons and 850 M capacity, was built at Hoquiam, Wash., in 1902 by Hitching and Joyce E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco. In 1916 she had a mutiny on board, and the master's wife, Mrs. Anna Endresen, subsequently sued for $40,000 salvage, for her services in saving the ship when the crew refused duty. The schooner continued in deep-water trading until 1923, when she was sold to Whitney-Bodden, Mobile, and went around to the Gulf. In 1928 she was sold at auction by the U. S. marshal at Mobile for $750, and was converted to a barge at New York, her registry being abandoned in 1932. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. August 2, 1941, p. 2 |
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| Resolute (sidewheeler) | The 90-foot sidewheeler Resolute was a jack-of-all-trades ship built in Philadelphia. It was purchased by Meigs Port Madison Mill Company and arrived on the Sound in 1850. It was used to tow logs, transport supplies and sometimes passengers. It was only an occasional frequenter of Hood Canal. While pulling a tow of logs, the boiler of the Resolute blew up, killing all hands except the mate and captain. After the Resolute came the Politofsky. It was built by the Russians in Sitka, Alaska. When the Alaska purchase was consumated in 1867, it became United States property. It carried supplies, and when the occasion arose, passengers, on its intermittent trips to the Canal. 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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| Resolute (steamer) | The steamer Resolute, which will always occupy an important place in marine history as the first tugboat on Puget Sound, was towing a raft of logs down the Squaxon Island passage, near Olympia, August 19, 1868, and, when near the foot of the island, her boiler exploded with a force that completely wrecked the steamer, damaging the hull so that it sank immediately, carrying down the stunned and bruised men with those who were killed outright. Capt. Thomas Guindon was in the pilot-house and was blown into the air, alighting on some wreckage. A piece of the boiler which descended an instant later struck him on the leg, breaking it and injuring his arm. He was severely scalded but clung to his raft until rescuers arrived, who took him in a canoe to Olympia, where he received medical attendance. The other survivor, Janeowich, the mate, was not so seriously injured, and was picked up by a farmer living near the scene of the accident. The other six men aboard were either instantly killed or so badly injured that the |
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| Resolute (towboat) | The steamer Resolute, a small towboat built two years before, exploded her boiler at Portland, April 12th, while lying at the wharf at the foot of Morrison Street. She was owned by Hamill and Lewis, the latter acting as engineer. A few minutes before the accident Lewis had looked at the steam gauge, which indicated a pressure of but forty pounds. He then walked ashore, and shortly afterward the steam began blowing off at the safety valve. This caused him to return to the steamer and press the lever of the valve down. No sooner had he done so than the boiler exploded with terrific force, but instead of going upward, as is usually the case, everything went through the bottom of the boat, sinking her almost instantly. Lewis escaped to the dock, but the fireman and Chinese cook were blown out into the river, where they were afterward picked up comparatively uninjured. The steamer was valued at about three thousand dollars and was a total loss. E. W. Wright, Remarkable Trip of the 'Shoshone,' Willamette and Colum |
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| Resolute (towboat) | The steamer Resolute, a small towboat built two years before, exploded her boiler at Portland, April 12th, while lying at the wharf at the foot of Morrison Street. She was owned by Hamill and Lewis, the latter acting as engineer. A few minutes before the accident Lewis had looked at the steam gauge, which indicated a pressure of but forty pounds. He then walked ashore, and shortly afterward the steam began blowing off at the safety valve. This caused him to return to the steamer and press the lever of the valve down. No sooner had he done so than the boiler exploded with terrific force, but instead of going upward, as is usually the case, everything went through the bottom of the boat, sinking her almost instantly. Lewis escaped to the dock, but the fireman and Chinese cook were blown out into the river, where they were afterward picked up comparatively uninjured. The steamer was valued at about three thousand dollars and was a total loss. E. W. Wright, Remarkable Trip of the 'Shoshone,' Willamette and Colum |
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| Resolute (tug) | April 12, 1872 Tug, steam, 57'x 12'x 31, built at Portland in 1870. Her boiler exploded, blew downward like a torpedo and instantly sank the vessel at Portland. Don Marhsall, Ship disasters Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana. Oregon Shipwrecks. 1985, p. 208-211. |
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| Resolute (tug) | Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 345. Edward M. Brady. Tugs, towboats and towing., p. 51. MWL, p. 63, 68. Jim Gibbs, Pacific Square-riggers., p. 49. |
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| Resolute (tug) | Mr. Meigs' little tug Resolute, ran on the Sound from about 1857, until her boiler exploded one day about ten years later, and she was destroyed. The crew of five was lost; but her captain and pilot, Johnny Guindon nephew of Mr. Meigs, though scalded, clung to the wreckage and was saved and taken to Olympia for treatment. He made the following Finnegan-like report to headquarters. . . : Resolute blown up; boom gone to hell, and I'm at the Pacific Hotel'. (Blankenship, Light and Shade of Pioneer Life.) Elsie F. Marriott Bainbridge through bifocals.Seattle: Gateway Printing Company, 1941, p. 183-202 |
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| Resolute (tug) | The Yaquina Bay bar tug Resolute transferred operations to Puget Sound, engaged in towing barges and sailing vessels north. The Sacramento River stern-wheeler Thomas Dwyer, a shallow draft boat, was sent north for the Yukon Exploration Co., headed by San Francisco attorney Burnette G. Haskell. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 16. |
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| Resolute (tug) | The company also built the tug Resolute, which was handled on the bar until 1888 by Capt. James Robertson, and subsequently by W. J. Rickards, Charles P. Lucky and S. J. Wheeler. 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., p.345. |
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| Resolute (tug) | The first tugboat on the Sound arrived this year. She was called the Resolute,* and a short time afterward collided with the Northerner off Dickenson's Point, damaging the latter vessel to the extent of about $5,000 and seriously injuring a soldier on board. Capt. J. M. Guindon was in command of the Resolute at this time and remained in charge during her entire career on the Sound, which ended in 1868 with a fearful boiler explosion. *The steamer Resolute was built in Philadelphia in 1850 and came round the Horn in 1854. Her length was eighty-nine feet, beam seventeen feet six inches, depth nine feet four inches. She was towing and jobbing at San Francisco for a year or two after her advent, and at the time Meiggs bought her for the Sound business was running as a water boat from Sausalito to San Francisco, occasionally towing ships. She was brought from San Francisco by Captain Pray, who operated her for a short time after her arrival. He was succeeded by Captain Guindon. The Resolute gave good service in he |
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| Resolute (tug) | Puget Sound's pioneer tugboat, the Resolute, went skyward in a terrible explosion in August, six people losing their lives. E. W. Wright, The Alaska Purchase, Advent of Many Fine Steamers on Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.165. |
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