Suomi (steamer)

The steamer Suomi, constructed at Chinook in 1890 for B. A. Seaborg, was purchased by the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Company in 1891 and renamed the Ilwaco. She was at once substituted for the General Canby on the Ilwaco route, where she has since remained, in charge of Captains William Starr and Thomas Parker and Engineer Charles Smith. The Ilwaco is ninety feet long, seventeen feet beam, and six feet hold, with engines sixteen by sixteen inches. 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.389.

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