Trebla (tug)

The Vancouver, B. C. tug Trebla was also destroyed by fire, Capt. Albert Berquist, her owner, replacing her with the first Griffiths steamer Amur, which he renamed Famous. Bad luck continued to plague the Puget Sound Freight Lines, the motor freighter Chaco, pioneer vessel of the line, catching fire off Point Defiance in October and burning to the waterline without loss of life. She was in charge of Capt. T. W. Staffley, with Robert Rooney as chief engineer. Gordon Newell,Maritime Events of 1924, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle : Superior Publishing Company, 1966. p. 357.

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