| Santa Olivia (steamer) | The steamship Santa Olivia was purchased from Grace Lines by Libby, McNeill & Libby, entering the Bristol Bay cannery trade during the 1936 season as the David W. Branch. The Santa Olivia was built at Flushing, Holland in 1915 as the Ecuador of the Dutch West Indies Mail Line, a single-screw steel passenger vessel of 5,544 tons, 380.6 x 48.7 x 32.6, with 3,350- horsepower triple-expansion (29, 27, 77 x 48) engine and four single ended Scotch boilers of 180 pounds working pressure. She was one of three vessels purchased from the Dutch shipping company by the reconstituted Pacific Mail Steamship Co., restoring trans -Pacific passenger service under that house flag in 1916 but proving poor substitutes for such former Pacific Mail liners as Mongolia and Siberia. She was a notably cranky ship when light or only partially loaded, but comfortable when well down to her marks. One of her well-known masters, Capt. Yankee Swanson, created something of a legend when he fired the second mate, remarking that he hoped |
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| Santa Olivia (steamer) | The steamship Santa Olivia was purchased from Grace Lines by Libby, McNeill & Libby, entering the Bristol Bay cannery trade during the 1936 season as the David W. Branch. The Santa Olivia was built at Flushing, Holland in 1915 as the Ecuador of the Dutch West Indies Mail Line, a single-screw steel passenger vessel of 5,544 tons, 380.6 x 48.7 x 32.6, with 3,350- horsepower triple-expansion (29, 27, 77 x 48) engine and four single ended Scotch boilers of 180 pounds working pressure. She was one of three vessels purchased from the Dutch shipping company by the reconstituted Pacific Mail Steamship Co., restoring trans -Pacific passenger service under that house flag in 1916 but proving poor substitutes for such former Pacific Mail liners as Mongolia and Siberia. She was a notably cranky ship when light or only partially loaded, but comfortable when well down to her marks. One of her well-known masters, Capt. Yankee Swanson, created something of a legend when he fired the second mate, remarking that he hoped |
| Citation: Tacoma Public Library |