| 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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