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Ships subject file photograph and drawing collection, approximately 1826-2000

Overview of the Collection

Compiler
University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division
Title
Ships subject file photograph and drawing collection
Dates
approximately 1826-2000 (inclusive)
1870-1960 (bulk)
Quantity
1.11 cubic feet (3 boxes; 597 photographic prints and drawings) : 2 cyanotypes ; various sizes
Collection Number
PH1290
Summary
Photographs and illustrations of ships organized by ship name
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
English
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Content Description

Photographs and illustrations of ships organized by ship name.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed by Elaine Carter, 2019; Kate Norgon, 2020.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

  • A-D

    • S.S. Acapulco

      The S.S. Acapulco was a cruise liner first launched in 1922 as the SS Mongolia. It was moored in Seattle during the World's Fair in 1962 as a floating hotel. The ship proved to be too expensive to operate and was scrapped after the fair. Information from Bill Cotter's Seattle 1962 World's Fair (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2010).

    • U.S.S. Adams

    • Admiral Benson

      Wrecked in 1930. Stranded at the Columbia entrance near Peacock Spit on February 15, 1930. All 39 passengers were removed. On February 17 there was worsening weather and all non-essential crew were removed. On February 18, all crew were removed besides Capt. C.C. Graham, who left on February 24. It is believed that the wreck of the Laurel was mistaken for a range buoy. Capt. Graham pled guilty to negligence, and his license was suspended for 6 months.

    • A.J. West

      The 543 ton, four-masted schooner A.J. West was built in 1898 at Aberdeen by John Howson at the West & Slade Mill for the Slade Shipping Co. of San Francisco (p. 33). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Alameda

    • U.S.S. Albatross

      • Description: Officers of the U.S.S. Albatross on return trip from Alaska

        Written on verso: Ensigns S.V. Graham, Yates Stirling (?), Lt. M. Guinness (?), + H.L. Fassett (?), Chamberlain, Lt. H.E. Parmenter, Capt. Moser, Dr Louis Young, Paymaster B.P. Du Boise. Officers of U.S.S. ALBATROSS Return from trip in Alaskan waters, October, 1897. Zoe Agnes Semple.

        Dates: October 1897
        Container: Box/Folder 1/1, Item Albatross1
        Location: A-D / U.S.S. Albatross

    • Alcazar

    • Aleut

      The tug Aleut was built in Benicia, California in 1898 for the Alaska Packers' Association. She was purchased by Captain Ray Small and W.J. Allison of Seattle and was one of the most active vessels in the Puget Sound towing business in the early 1920s. In 1922, the tug was sold to Captain Frank Fogarty and Jack Fogarty of Yaquina Bay, Oregon.

    • Aleutian

    • Alice

    • Alice Ross

      The Alice Ross was a 70 foot motor passenger boat designed by Naval Architect L.H. Coolidge. She was built by Seattle City Light for Diablo Lake excursions to the new hydro-electric plant, which was built in 1935. She was a 300 passenger vessel, and was powered by a 175-horsepower Hull-Scott gasoline engine (p. 437). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966).

    • Alki

      There were multiple ships named Alki.

      • Description: Steamship Alki on Skykomish River, Washington

        This was the first steamer up Skykomish River.

        Dates: 1878
        Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item AlkiA1
        Location: A-D / Alki
      • Description: Steamship Al-Ki

        The steamship Al-Ki (built in 1884) was owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. She participated in the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897 and operated on various routes including Seattle to Southeast Alaska until she was laid up in Eagle Harbor in 1909. In 1912, she was purchased and, along with two other vessels owned by Dodwell & Co., serviced Sitka and the Prince of Wales Islands beginning in 1914. On November 1, 1917 during a storm she ran aground near Point Augusta, Alaska.

        Dates: Between 1884 and 1917
        Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item Al-KiB1
        Location: A-D / Alki
      • Description: Fireboat Alki

        The Alki was a fireboat of steel construction built for the city of Seattle and launched in 1927 or 1928 from Oakland, California. Her dimensions were 123.6 x 26 x 11.6. She was originally propelled by triple screws and seven 350-horsepower Winton gas engines. Six of those gas engines were connected to the water pumps, and only 1 was reserved for propulsion. Her equipment included a hydraulically operated elevator monitor tower, and her pumps could throw 17,000 gallons of water per minute (p. 384). Ivar Haglund helped to preserve her by pestering the Seattle fire chief (p. 532). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966).

        Dates: Between 1927 and 1950?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item AlkiC1
        Location: A-D / Alki

    • Amazon

    • Amelia

    • Amelia Wheaton

      The Amelia Wheaton was an 85 foot sternwheel steamer built in 1878 by Captain C.P. Sorenson for the federal government to operate with Fort Sherman. She was the first steam vessel to operate on Lake Coeur d'Alene. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Armeria

      The 201 foot steel Armeria was built by John A. Dialogue in Camden, New Jersey in 1892 as a lighthouse tender for the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. In 1898, she was transferred to the Navy from the Lighthouse Service and converted for naval service at the Norfolk Navy Yard. She was assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron for the duration of the Spanish-American war. Armeria returned to the Lighthouse Service in 1898. In 1907 she was reassigned to the 13th Lighthouse District, and transferred again to the 16th Lighthouse District at Ketchikan in 1911, becoming the first tender to be permanently assigned to Alaska.

      Armeria struck a submerged uncharted rock while servicing Cape Hinchinbrook Light on May 20, 1912 and wrecked. Considered a total loss, her hulk was sold at auction. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966) and the US Coast Guard website: https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Water/All/Article/2157728/armeria-1890/

      • Description: Lighthouse tender Armeria, Alaska
        Dates: between 1911 and 1912
        Container: Item Armeria1
        Location: A-D / Armeria

    • Annette Rolph

    • Aquilo

      The Aquilo was a steamer on Lake Washington owned by Capt. Anderson, lessee of the county ferry fleet. She was returned to King County in 1938 and ordered sold at sheriff's sale. She was sold to Pacific Metal & Salvage Co. of Seattle for $360 and scrapped (p. 466). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966).

    • Arago

      The Arago was a four masted barkentine built at the Simpson yard in North Bend, Washington, in 1891 for carrying lumber. She was sold to Chilean owners as the Judith in 1914, and then to Peruvian owners as the Aurrera (p. 248). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Arrow

    • Arthur Foss

    • Athlon

      The propeller steamer Athlon was operated on the Seattle-Bremerton run. She was built in 1900 by J.H. Johnston at Portland for Shaver, Kamm, and Kellogg for a contract price of $4,935. She was 112.4 feet long with a gross tonnage of 157, a beam of 19.7 feet, and a depth of 7 feet. She was declared a total loss on August 1, 1921. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Atlanta

      The Atlanta was a 90 foot long, 87 ton passenger steamer built by Captain John Anderson for passenger service on Lake Washington (p 150). The Atlanta was completed in 1908, and remained in service until 1938 when she was ordered sold at the sheriff's sale (p 150, 466). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Azalea

      Used during Prohibition to bootleg alcohol from Canada into the Pacific Northwest.

      • Description: Azalea
        Dates: April 1939
        Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item Azalea1
        Location: A-D / Azalea
      • Description: Azalea in Portland, Oregon

        Purchased from Zephyr Rare Books, March 2023

        Dates: approximately 1925
        Container: Box/Folder 4/1
        Location: A-D / Azalea

    • U.S.S. Babbitt

      • Description: U.S.S. Babbitt (DD-128)

        The ship behind the U.S.S. Babbitt is most likely the U.S.S. Twiggs (DD-127).

        Dates: Between 1918 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/4, Item Babbitt1
        Location: A-D / U.S.S. Babbitt

    • Bailey Gatzert

      The Bailey Gatzert was a sternwheel steamer built in Ballard in 1890, and was launched in 1891 sideways on 177 foot ways (p. 223). She operated in Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast, and on the Columbia River. She was refitted with an elevator in 1917 for loading cars, and was the first automobile ferry to serve the Olympic Peninsula. She was laid up in 1926 and her hull converted to a floating machine shop on Lake Union, but her whistle and nameboard are at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), Seattle, Washington (p. 291). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • U.S.S. Baltimore

    • Beaver

      There were multiple ships called Beaver.

      • Description: Steamship Beaver
        Jeffries (Photographer)

        The Beaver was a Canadian steamer. She was the "first steam vessel to ply the North Pacific" (p. 369). She was lost on Prospect Point in 1888 while under the command of Captain George Marchant. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1875 and 1888?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverA1
        Location: A-D / Beaver
      • Description: Photo of steamship Beaver Christmas card tacked to wall

        The Beaver was a Canadian steamer. She was the "first steam vessel to ply the North Pacific" (p. 369). She was lost on Prospect Point in 1888 while under the command of Captain George Marchant. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1855 and 1888
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverA2
        Location: A-D / Beaver
      • Description: Wreck of the steamship Beaver at Prospect Point, British Columbia

        The Beaver was a Canadian steamer. She was the "first steam vessel to ply the North Pacific" (p. 369). She was lost on Prospect Point in 1888 while under the command of Captain George Marchant. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: 1888?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverA3
        Location: A-D / Beaver
      • Description: Photo of wreck of steamship Beaver tacked to wall

        The Beaver was a Canadian steamer. She was the "first steam vessel to ply the North Pacific" (p. 369). She was lost on Prospect Point in 1888 while under the command of Captain George Marchant. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1888 and 1950?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverA4
        Location: A-D / Beaver
      • Description: Mural of steamship Beaver by Kenneth Callahan at the Washington State Library in Olympia, Washington

        The Beaver was a Canadian steamer. She was the "first steam vessel to ply the North Pacific" (p. 369). She was lost on Prospect Point in 1888 while under the command of Captain George Marchant. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1958 and 2000?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverA5
        Location: A-D / Beaver
      • Description: Beaver and other boats at Fisherman's Terminal in Seattle

        Fisherman's Terminal opened in 1914.

        Dates: Between 1914 and 1959?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverB1
        Location: A-D / Beaver
      • Description: Beaver and other boats at Fisherman's Terminal in Seattle
        Dates: Between 1914 and 1959?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BeaverB2
        Location: A-D / Beaver

    • Bella

      • Description: Steamship Bella in the Klondike

        Written on photo: Steamer "Bella's" first landing at Klondike.

        Dates: Between 1896 and 1899?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item Bella1
        Location: A-D / Bella

    • Berringo, 1918

      Built by Patterson-MacDonald Shipbuilding Co.

      • Description: Launching the Berringo in Seattle
        Dates: 27 July 1918
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5
        Location: A-D / Berringo, 1918

    • Blue Ox

      • Description: Blue Ox

        Written on verso: Used in clearing project for Coulee Dam.

        Dates: 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/5, Item BlueOx1
        Location: A-D / Blue Ox

    • Breakwater

      The Breakwater was a 200 foot long iron passenger steamer. She was operated by the North Pacific Steamship Co., running on the Portland-California route (p. 295). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Burnside

      United States Army Transport (U.S.A.T.) Burnside acted as a cable-laying vessel in and north of the Puget Sound in the early 1900s. She was built in 1892 as the Yeomanby Campbell, MacIntosh, & Bowstead in Newcastle, England. The ship was sold to a Spanish company in 1891 and renamed the S.S. Rita. In 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the ship was captured by the U.S.S. Yale, was acquired by the U. S. Quartermaster Department from the U.S. Prize Court , and renamed the U.S.A.T. Burnside after Maj. Gen. Ambrose P. Burnside in 1899. She was assigned to the A.T.S. Pacific fleet and based in Seattle where she maintained the cable network of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable System (W.A.M.C.A.T.S). She was condemned in 1923, sold, and scrapped in 1924 in Oakland, California. Source: US Army Source of Battle 1919-1941, Volume 4, The Services, p. 2144.

      • Description: U.S. Army Transport cable ship Burnside

        Written on verso: U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Burnside." Geo. Leonhardt served on this around 1905 or so. Geo. was my grandfather's son by Lida Hasford(?).

        Contrary to what is written on the verso, this is not the Coast Guard ship.

        Dates: Between 1899 and 1923
        Container: Box/Folder 1/6, Item Burnside1
        Location: A-D / Burnside

    • S.S. Burton

      The S.S. Burton was owned by the Kitsap Transportation Co. She was destroyed by fire on February 22, 1924.

    • California

      • Description: Drawing of sailing ship California

        Image published p. 48 of Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest by E.W. White, ed. (Portland: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co.).

        Dates: 1853
        Container: Box/Folder 1/6, Item California1
        Location: A-D / California

    • Carol Foss

    • Carpenter

    • Casca, approximately 1898-1911

      Name derived from the Kaska Dena people who have lived in British Columbia and the Yukon since time immemorial. Built in 1898, she was described in company records as being so "practically worn out and useless..." that she was rebuilt almost completely in 1911. She was wrecked at Rink Rapids on July 9th, 1936.

    • Cascade

      • Description: Cascade
        Dates: Between 1885 and 1910?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/6, Item Cascade1
        Location: A-D / Cascade

    • Catala

    • C.D. Dorr

    • Charles Nelson

    • Chas. R. Spencer

    • Charmer

    • Chelohsin

      • Description: Chelohsin
        Dates: 1949
        Container: Box/Folder 1/7, Item Chelohsin1
        Location: A-D / Chelohsin

    • MV Chetzemoka

    • U.S.S. Chicago

    • City of Bremerton

      Originally named Majestic. Built at Everett by E. Heath for the Thompson Steamboat Co. in 1901 (p. 70), renamed the Whatcom in 1904, operated under the Alaska Steamship Co. (p. 100), lost off Pt. Pfeiffer in 1909 (p. 165), purchased by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. and converted in 1921 into the steam ferry City of Bremerton (p. 324). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • City of Everett

      The City of Everett was a bulk carrier vessel known as a "whaleback." These vessels were used extensively between the 1890 and 1910. Their unconventional bow and stern structure and their rounded weather deck and low freeboard when fully loaded gave them the appearance of a partly submerged whale. These vessels were used mostly for transport in the freshwater of the Great Lakes. Only two operated in the Pacific waters. The first was the Charles W. Wetmore. The other was the City of Everett, which launched in Everett on October 24, 1894. She was the only whaleback constructed on the Pacific Coast. The American Steel Barge Co. owned the Everett through the end of 1899. The American Agricultural Chemical Co. owned the vessel from 1900 through 1901. The Standard Oil Company of New York then took over ownership until 1915. The Everett was in service for 28 years, during which she was the first U.S. merchant steamship to pass through the Suez Canal and circumnavigate the globe. She sank in the Gulf of Mexico on October 11, 1923. Information from the Seattle Times, November 11, 1962.

      • Description: Whaleback steamer City of Everett

        Caption from Seattle Times article: Under way at full speed, the City of Everett presented a startling appearance, almost that of a ship foundering in a heavy sea.

        Vintage print in University of Detroit Mercy Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection.

        Dates: Between 1894 and 1923
        Container: Box/Folder 1/7, Item CityofEverett1
        Location: A-D / City of Everett
      • Description: Whaleback steamer City of Everett in dry dock at Dockton, Vashon Island, Washington

        Vintage print in Mariners' Museum Collection, Virginia (P0001.003/01-#PB4707)

        Dates: Between 1894 and 1923
        Container: Box/Folder 1/7, Item CityofEverett2
        Location: A-D / City of Everett
      • Description: Copy of the Certificate of Registry for the City of Everett
        Dates: February 18, 1895
        Container: Box/Folder 1/7, Item CityofEverett3
        Location: A-D / City of Everett

    • City of Kingston

      The City of Kingston was brought to the Pacific Northwest in 1890 for the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co. and handled the company's Puget Sound-British Columbia service. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). The City of Kingston collided with another ship, the Glenogle, near Tacoma, Washington in 1900, and sunk off of Point Defiance.

    • City of Los Angeles

      Built in 1899 in Danzig, Germany; 12,642 tons, 560 ft. long. Formerly the North German Lloyd liner S.S. Grosser Kurfurst (different from the German battleship of the same name). The ship was seized by the U.S. during WWI. She was turned over to the U.S. Navy, renamed the Aeolus , and used as a transport ship until 1919 (p. 1). Notes from Marine Engineering, Vol. 26, Issue 1 (New York: Aldrich Publishing Co., 1921). In 1922, the ship was assigned to the Los Angeles Steamship Co. and renamed the S.S. City of Los Angeles , sailing between Los Angeles and Honolulu. In 1937, the ship was sold for scrapping in Japan. Information from the Naval History and Heritage Command website, "Aeolus I" article.

    • City of Puebla

      The S.S. City of Puebla was an iron steamer built in Philadelphia in 1881 for the run between New York and Havana. She was later transferred to service between Puget Sound and San Francisco in 1889 (p. 261). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      Operated by Pacific Coast Steamship Co. Stranded near Bellingham September 19, 1910. Salvaged and repaired by Moran Bros. Co. for $39,000 (p. 13). Notes from Railway and Marine News, Vol. 9 (Seattle: J.P. Parkinson, 1911). Sold to East Coast owners in 1916 when Pacific Alaska Navigation Co. merged with Pacific Coast Steamship Co. to become Pacific Steamship Co.

    • City of Seattle

      There were multiple ships named City of Seattle.

      • Description: Passenger steamship City of Seattle

        The City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia and brought to the Pacific Northwest on orders of Captain D.B. Jackson in 1890 for the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company. The City of Seattle provided ferry service in Puget Sound on the Victoria route until 1897. During the Klondike Gold Rush, the City of Seattle ran on the Alaska route, and was known as the "Alaska Lightning Express." She was sold to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company in 1901. In 1904, the ship hit a rock near Eagle Harbor and was remodeled and refurnished with steel by 1914. In 1921, she was moved to the East Coast after being bought by C.L. Dimon of Florida for the Miami Steamship Company. After many years of service the ship was sold and scrapped in Philadelphia in 1937.

        Dates: Between 1890 and 1921
        Container: Box/Folder 1/8, Item CityofSeattleA1
        Location: A-D / City of Seattle
      • Description: Passenger steamship City of Seattle at a dock

        The City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia and brought to the Pacific Northwest on orders of Captain D.B. Jackson in 1890 for the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company. The City of Seattle provided ferry service in Puget Sound on the Victoria route until 1897. During the Klondike Gold Rush, the City of Seattle ran on the Alaska route, and was known as the "Alaska Lightning Express." She was sold to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company in 1901. In 1904, the ship hit a rock near Eagle Harbor and was remodeled and refurnished with steel by 1914. In 1921, she was moved to the East Coast after being bought by C.L. Dimon of Florida for the Miami Steamship Company. After many years of service the ship was sold and scrapped in Philadelphia in 1937.

        Dates: 1899
        Container: Box/Folder 1/8, Item CityofSeattleA2
        Location: A-D / City of Seattle
      • Description: Steam ferry City of Seattle docked at Martinez, California

        The steam-driven sidewheeler City of Seattle was built in Portland, Oregon in 1888 by John Steffen, for the West Seattle Land and Improvement Company. She officially entered into service between Seattle and West Seattle on New Year's Eve 1888. Notes from M.S. Kline's Ferryboats: A Legend on Puget Sound (Seattle: Bayless Books, 1983). This double ended vehicle ferry was sold in 1913 to the Martinez and Benicia Ferry Co. in California (p. 96). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1946
        Container: Box/Folder 1/8, Item CityofSeattleB1
        Location: A-D / City of Seattle

    • Clallam

      Launched in 1903 for Puget Sound Navigation Co. 168 ft. long. Sank in a storm in the Straits of Juan de Fuca on January 8, 1904. Considered a cursed ship.

      • Description: Steamship Clallam
        Dates: Between 1903 and January 8, 1904
        Container: Box/Folder 1/9, Item Clallam1
        Location: A-D / Clallam

    • Clan McDonald

      Freighter - launched in 1891 at Aberdeen. 95 feet long - 24' 7" beam, 5' 5" depth, 118.13 tons. Destroyed by fire at Chuckanut Bay in 1902.

    • Clifford Sifton

    • Coeur d'Alene

    • Colfax

      100 ft shallow draft propeller steamer, built along with Spokane in 1902 to serve lumber trade on Lake Coeur d'Alene.

    • U.S.S. Colorado

    • Columbia

      There were multiple ships named Columbia.

      The Columbia Rediviva and the Columbia are the same ship.

    • Commerce

    • Concordia

    • U.S.S. Constitution

      During the summer of 1933, the principal ports of the Northwest were visited by the historic United States frigate U.S.S. Constitution, recently restored to seaworthy condition with funds contributed by the nation's school children. Old Ironsides, manned by a crew from the steam and diesel navy, was operated as a glorified barge, being towed by the minesweeper Grebe (p. 421). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • S.S. Coquitlam

      The Coquitlam was originally the HMCS Leaside, a Royal Navy corvette (p. 540). She was converted to a cruise liner in 1947 with 100 first class accommodations, dancing, movies, and other entertainment. She was sold by Union Steamships Ltd. to C.B. West of Alaska Cruise Lines in 1958 and renamed the Glacier Queen (p. 626). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • S.S. Corwin

    • Cosmopolis

    • Cyrene

    • Dakota

    • U.S.S. Dale

    • Danmark

      The auxiliary steel full-rigged ship Danmark, built in 1932 for the Danish Ministry of Shipping and Fisheries for use as a training ship, visited Seattle on a training cruise in 1946, mooring at Pier 54 on the central waterfront and causing considerable tourist traffic for the month of December. Under command of Captain Knud L. Hansen, the little square-rigger and her 16 officers and 116 Danish Merchant Marine cadets arrived after a 13,000 mile voyage from Copenhagen under sail. Danmark had found herself in the United States at the outbreak of World War II and was lent to the United States Coast Guard Academy at New London for use as a training ship, in which service she trained 5,000 United States Coast Guard cadets (p. 533). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • David Campbell

      The David Campbell was a steam fireboat of steel construction. She was built at Portland in 1913. Her machinery could develop 1,200 horsepower. She remained in service until 1928 (p. 224). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Dawn

      • Description: Steamboat Dawn at dock

        Built by Capt. Anderson who operated the Anderson Steamboat Co. that ran ferries on Lake Washington.

        Dates: 1925
        Container: Box/Folder 1/11, Item Dawn1
        Location: A-D / Dawn

    • U.S.S. Decatur

      The Decatur, built in 1839, came to Seattle in 1855. It was called a "sloop of war," being less than a frigate or "line of battle" ship. In 1855, it carried sixteen guns, and had a crew of 104 men. It took part in the defense of Seattle against the Indians in 1855-1856. In later years the Decatur was in the Puget Sound lumber trade.

      • Description: Drawing of U.S.S. Decatur

        Written on front: Beating round "Cape Froward:" Straits of Magellan, Dec: 1854. J.Y.T.

        Dates: 1854?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/11, Item Decatur1
        Location: A-D / U.S.S. Decatur
      • Description: Drawing of U.S.S. Decatur

        Written on front: U.S. Sloop-of-War "Decatur" Length: 117' 7" ~ Beam: 33' 10" ~ Depth in Hold: 15' ~ Burthen: 566 tons. ~ 16 guns ~ Ship's Company: 145 men. Built, N. York Navy Yard, 1839; Sold out of Navy; Broken up at S. Francisco 1865.

        Dates: 1854?
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/1, Item Decatur2
        Location: A-D / U.S.S. Decatur
      • Description: Drawing of U.S.S. Decatur in Seattle
        Albert H. Robinson and A.Y. Jackson (Artist)

        Buildings along shoreline labeled: 1st M.E. Church. Lake Trail & Skidroad. North Block House~Oct. '55. The Mound. Yesler's Mill, Wharf, House. Elliot House. Hotel. South Block House~Feby. '56. Madame Damnable's. local legend has it that she was so wicked that she turned to stone when buried! S.W. Pl.

        Written on front: Seattle, Washington Territory ~~ 1855-1856.....A village of fifty souls & about thirty houses on Duwamish Bay, swelled to about one-hundred & seventy men, women & children during the Indian Troubles, the reluctant hosts of some eighty odd border ruffians.....

        Dates: Between 1855 and 1856
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/1, Item Decatur3
        Location: A-D / U.S.S. Decatur
      • Description: The U.S.S. Decatur

        Another copy of this photo is in the Prosch Seattle Views Album, Vol. 2, page 22. From a caption beneath that photo: This is a picture taken at one of the Atlantic Yards when the vessel was new, and when she seemed to have more guns

        Dates: between 1855 and 1859
        Container: Box/Folder SOS1/1, Item Decatur4
        Location: A-D / U.S.S. Decatur

    • Defiance

      The four-masted schooner Defiance was built at Hoquiam, Washington in 1897 by Peter Matthews. Weighing 604 tons, 179.8 feet long, and 37.7 feet by 13.7 feet, the Defiance was the largest sailing vessel built in the Pacific Northwest that year. She was built for the E.K. Wood Lumber Company, and was initially commanded by Captain Blum (p. 21). She burned in 1922 while loading copra in the Solomon Islands while under the command of Captain Clark. He and all his crew reached shore safely (p. 330). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      There were multiple ships named Defiance.

    • Del Norte

      There were multiple ships named Del Norte.

      • Description: Watercolor painting of the wreck of the Del Norte in British Columbia

        Written on painting: Wreck of the Del Norte. [illegible] S. by E. - Low water - morning 27th Oct. 1868. Looking from Gulf of Georgia through Porlier's Pass into Trincomali Channel.

        Dates: 1868
        Container: Box/Folder 1/13, Item DelNorteA1
        Location: A-D / Del Norte
      • Description: Steamship Del Norte loaded with lumber

        The Del Norte was a steam schooner constructed in 1888. She towed a group of river steamers from Seattle to Alaska in 1898 (p. 29). She sank in 1905 after colliding with the steam schooner Sea Foam off the entrance to the Coquille River (p. 115). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1888 and 1905
        Container: Box/Folder 1/13, Item DelNorteB1
        Location: A-D / Del Norte

    • Diamond Cement

      Japanese built steamer in 1919 (p. 587), carried limerock cargoes from the quarries at View Cove, Alaska to Seattle (p. 423), operated by the Permanente Cement Co. of Seattle (p. 542), chartered to the Alaska Steamship Co. for general service in 1949 (p. 563), sold in 1952 to Italian owners (p. 587). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Dirigo

      The Dirigo was built in 1898 at Grays Harbor, Washington, and was engined at San Francisco (p 33). Operated in the Alaska trade, first under J.S. Kimball & Co. of Seattle, then by the Alaska Steamship Co. (p 33, 52). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). This ship sank on November 16, 1914, 100 miles west from Cape Fairweather on a voyage from Cordova, Alaska, to Seattle.

    • Discovery

      • Description: Illustration of the sailing ship Discovery in Puget Sound, Washington

        Depiction of George Vancouver's ship Discovery during a voyage to the North Pacific Ocean and Pacific coast of North America, 1792.

        Written on painting: The Discovery off Blakely Rocks. The first vessel on Puget Sound, 1792. Copyright applied for by S.E. Coombs. Vancouver, master.

        Dates: 1792
        Container: Box/Folder 1/13, Item Discovery1
        Location: A-D / Discovery

    • Dix

      The Dix was a passenger steamboat used as a ferry in Puget Sound, particularly on the Seattle-Alki Point run. She was built in 1904 by Crawford & Reid, Tacoma. She was rammed and sunk by the Alaska Coast Company steamship Jeanie off of Duwamish Head on November 18, 1906, resulting in between 40 and 54 deaths.

      • Description: Passenger steamer Dix

        Photographer possibly Webster & Stevens. Information from Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society.

        Dates: Between 1904 and 1906
        Container: Box/Folder 1/13, Item Dix1
        Location: A-D / Dix

    • Dolphin

      The Dolphin was built in 1892 on the East Coast as the charter fishing vessel Al Foster. She was a composite steel and iron-hulled passenger steamer operated by the Alaska Steamship Co. (p. 55). She bested the City of Seattle in a race from Vancouver to Skagway (800 miles) in early May, 1902 (p. 76); temporarily placed on the Seattle-Port Townsend-Victoria run after the sinking of the Clallam on Jan. 8, 1904 (p. 100); sold to South American owners for Chilean coastal service in 1917, then rebuilt as a gunboat for the Chilean government (p. 292). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Dora

      Built in 1880, 229 tons. Operated by the Alaska Commercial Co. from San Francisco to St. Michael and Nome, Alaska. Struck ice in the Icy Straits in 1899 and suffered $2000 in damages. Purchased for the Alaska Pacific Navigation Co. in 1903. Disabled Dec. 30, 1905 off Chignik, Alaska when her steam line broke in heavy weather. She drifted for 63 days, across the Gulf of Alaska, out into the Pacific south of the Columbia River entrance, north of Kodiak Island, until she reached Port Angeles, Washington under jury-rigged sails, February 23, 1906. All the crew and 3 passengers lived, though were greatly rationed on food and water, just enough to barely sustain life. Never spotted. She was stranded on Noble Island December 20, 1920, later beached on Vancouver Island after her brief career as a codfishery.

      • Description: Mail steamer Dora
        Dates: Between 1880 and 1920
        Container: Box/Folder 1/14, Item Dora1
        Location: A-D / Dora

    • D.R. Campbell

    • Duwamish

      Built at Richmond Beach for the Seattle Fire Dept. in 1909 (p. 158). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). 309 tons, 113 ft long, 1,100 hp steam engines, costing more than $125,000.

    • Duxbury

      Power schooner that operated in the Arctic trade by Capt. Alexander Allen (p. 152), sold in 1909 (p. 165), and wrecked June 3, 1925 after being caught in the ice off Cape Halkett (p. 368). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

  • E-J

    • Eagle

      • Description: Passenger launch Eagle

        Eagle was a smaller type of steamboat called a steam launch. The wooden vessel was built at Eagle Harbor, Washington to run on routes connecting Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington. Eagle was destroyed by fire in 1902 at Eagle Harbor. The vessel was replaced in service by the Florence K.--Wikipedia

        Dates: Between 1900 and 1902
        Container: Box/Folder 1/14, Item Eagle1
        Location: E-J / Eagle
      • Description: Fishing vessel Eagle
        Dates: Between 1900 and 1930?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/14, Item Eagle2
        Location: E-J / Eagle

    • East African

    • Edith

      This Alaska Steamship Company iron freighter was built in 1882. Originally named the Glenochil (British), she came to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. In late August 1915, on a southbound voyage from Nome to Tacoma, the Edith was caught in a heavy storm. The cargo shifted to one side, endangering the ship and crew. On August 30, the crew of 37 abandoned ship and were picked up by the S.S. Mariposa. The foundering freighter eventually sank in the Gulf of Alaska.

      • Description: Edith
        Dates: Between 1882 and 1915
        Container: Box/Folder 1/15, Item Edith1
        Location: E-J / Edith

    • Electra

      A two-masted schooner known to have operated on the Mendocino Coast. The Electra was built in 1877 at Little River, California, by shipbuilder Thomas H. Peterson. Information from the Mendocino Coast Model Railroad & Historical Society.

      • Description: Sailing ship Electra
        Dates: Between 1877 and 1894
        Container: Box/Folder 1/15, Item Electra1
        Location: E-J / Electra

    • Eliza Anderson

      Built in Portland in 1858. Served Puget Sound initially on the Olympia-Victoria mail run in 1859. In 1897, sent to Alaska where she was beached outside of Unalaska.

    • Elk

    • Emily Keller

    • Emma

    • R.M.S. Empress of Russia

      Construction on the Empress of Russia began in 1912 and was completed in 1913. The ship had remarkable speed, defeating the record set by the Empress of Japan of the fastest crossing of the Pacific. For a brief time in 1914, she was taken over as an armed military vessel, but was returned to full commercial service by 1919. She made her final crossing in 1940.

    • Enetai

      • Description: Ferry MV Enetai
        Dates: Between 1940 and 1968
        Container: Box/Folder 1/15, Item Enetai1
        Location: E-J / Enetai

    • Eric

      Built in Port Blakely, Washington, in 1898 by Hall Bros.

    • Eureka

    • Exact

      • Description: Drawing of the schooner Exact

        Written below drawing: Schooner "Exact." Captain Folger. Length 73 ft. Beam 20 ft. Depth 6 ft. 75 tons. The "Exact" arrived at Alki Point Nov. 13, 1851 bringing the families of A.A. Denny, C.D. Boren, I.N. Low, W.N. Bell and C.O. Terry. She arrived at Olympia Nov. 15, 1851 with John Alexander and family. Drawn from a sketch by John S. Alexander.

        Dates: Between 1851 and 1950
        Container: Box/Folder 1/16, Item Exact1
        Location: E-J / Exact

    • Excelsior

      • Description: Steamer Excelsior leaving San Francisco for the Klondike
        Sam C. Partridge (photographer)

        Written on photo: Leaving San Francisco for the Klondike. - The first steamer to carry passengers to Alaska after the news of the discovery of the rich placers of the Klondike was received, was the Excelsior, which sailed from San Francisco on July 28, 1897. She was laden with 350 passengers and about 800 tons of provisions and supplies. Fully 10,000 persons gathered at Mission Street wharf to see the first part of gold seekers depart. The Excelsior was the vessel which brought from Alaska the miners who returned with the first gold from the Klondike. There were about $500,000 in gold dust and a considerable number of prospective millionaires in the party.

        Dates: July 28, 1897
        Container: Box/Folder 1/16, Item Excelsior1
        Location: E-J / Excelsior

    • E-Z-Way

      • Description: Small boat E-Z-Way in profile

        Cyanotype.

        Dates: Between 1880 and 1930?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/16, Item E-Z-Way1
        Location: E-J / E-Z-Way
      • Description: Passengers aboard small boat E-Z-Way

        Cyanotype.

        Dates: Between 1880 and 1930?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/16, Item E-Z-Way2
        Location: E-J / E-Z-Way

    • Falcon

    • Fantome

      Owned by A.E. Guinness, manufacturer of Guinness stout. Arrived in Seattle in 1939 and remained in Portage Bay for the duration of World War II.

    • Fleetwood

      The Fleetwood was built in 1881 in Portland, Oregon and ran routes along the Columbia River and in Puget Sound. In 1889, she was placed on the Seattle-Tacoma route alongside the Flyer. In 1898, the ship was abandoned in Quartermaster Harbor.

      • Description: Steamship Fleetwood

        Written on verso: Brought fire fighting equipment from Olympia.

        Dates: Between 1881 and 1898
        Container: Box/Folder 1/17, Item Fleetwood1
        Location: E-J / Fleetwood

    • Flora

      The Flora was placed in service by the Bennett Lake and Klondike Navigation Co. for the Bennett, B.C. to Taku City run.

    • Flottbek

      • Description: Sailing vessel Flottbek foundering off the Washington coast

        The photograph shows the Flottbek shortly before it was rescued from a dangerous situation by the two tugs, Tacoma and Wanderer. The rescue happened on January 16th 1901, so the photograph must have been taken between January 14th and 16th, 1901. The photographer is unknown, but it is highly probable the photograph was taken by Wilhelm Hester. There is a similar photo in the Wilhelm Hester Photo Collection of the San Francisco Maritime National Park.

        Written on verso: German ship? at Ozette Rock.

        Dates: January 1901
        Container: Box/Folder 1/17, Item Flottbek1
        Location: E-J / Flottbek

    • Flyer

    • Flying Fish

      • Description: Plan drawing for schooner Flying Fish profile view with ship's dimensions
        Hewitt Robinson Jackson (Artist)

        Written below drawing: A Draught of His Majesty's Schooner Flying Fish, ex Prize Revenge, built at Baltimore and taken off at Portsmouth Dockyard in September 1806. Courtesy: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England (64-4546-7-8). Delineated & Respectfully Inscribed to ye Gentlemen at ye Sign of ye Smuggler's; H. Robinson Jackson.

        Dates: 1972
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/3, Item FlyingFish1
        Location: E-J / Flying Fish
      • Description: Plan drawing for schooner Flying Fish cross-section, with details of launch and anchor
        Hewitt Robinson Jackson (Artist)

        Drawing of ship as it was in September 1806.

        Dates: 1972
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/3, Item FlyingFish2
        Location: E-J / Flying Fish
      • Description: Plan drawing for schooner Flying Fish cross-section profile
        Hewitt Robinson Jackson (Artist)

        Written below drawing: Plans of His Majesty's Schooner Flying Fish ex Revenge as taken off in September 1806.

        Dates: 1972
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/3, Item FlyingFish3
        Location: E-J / Flying Fish

    • Fortuna

      The passenger steamer Fortuna, 81 tons, 107 feet in length, was built at the Anderson Steamboat Co. yard for Capt. Anderson and the Seattle Street Railway Co. and placed in service on Lake Washington in 1906. In 1927, the Fortuna was sold by King County to the King Shipbuilding Co. of Seattle. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). The steamer was re-built in 1919 as an automobile ferry (p. 152). Notes from M.S. Kline's Ferryboats: A legend on Puget Sound (Seattle: Bayless Books, 1983).

    • Fram

      The Fram was a ship used by polar explorers including Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen. It was designed to survive the pressure of sea ice by its shape which allowed it to be pushed up on top of the ice, rather than frozen and crushed within the ice.

    • Gardiner City

      This four-masted schooner was built at North Bend, Oregon, in 1889 for A. M. Simpson, San Francisco. About 1895 she was rerigged as a three-masted barkentine, and later came under the ownership of Swayne & Hoyt. Shortly before the first World War, she was dismasted in a southeaster while lying at a Southern California pier, but was refitted once more as a four-masted schooner by the Port Blakely Mill Company and renamed by them the Kitsap. She was sunk in collision in Kauai Channel with the steamer Wailele without loss of life on March 21, 1919.

    • General J.W. Jacobs, Between 1908 and 1940?

      The General J.W. Jacobs was a sternwheel steamer built in 1908 in Portland, Oregon, for the Army Quartermaster Department.

    • Genevieve

      Built for the Sesnon Lighterage Co. of Nome in 1913.

    • George E. Starr

      148 foot wooden steamer built in 1878 in Seattle for the Puget Sound service.

    • Georgie Oakes

    • Gjoa

      The Gjoa was the first vessel to navigate the Northwest Passage between 1903 and 1906. She was on display in San Francisco before being returned to Norway.

    • Gleaner

      There were multiple ships named Gleaner.

    • Glenmark

    • Gloria II

    • Glory of the Seas

    • Golden State

      • Description: Schooner Golden State
        Dates: Between 1913 and 1937
        Container: Box/Folder 1/19, Item GoldenState1
        Location: E-J / Golden State
      • Description: Schooner Golden State

        Written on verso: Cod transporting schooner, Golden State. Capacity 500 tons.

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1937
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/3, Item GoldenState2
        Location: E-J / Golden State
      • Description: Engine room of the Golden State

        Written on verso: Engine room of cod transporting schooner "Golden State."

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1937
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/3, Item GoldenState3
        Location: E-J / Golden State

    • Goliah

      Built in New York in 1849. Purchased by Pope and Gamble in 1871 for service in Puget Sound. Burned off of Duwamish Head in 1899 for her metal.

    • Gov. Pingree

      Carried people and cargo to Alaska and the Yukon. Renamed Bonanza King in 1899.

    • Grace Dollar

    • Graf Spee

    • "Great White Fleet"

      • Description: Battleships of the Great White Fleet probably in Puget Sound

        Written on verso: Property of Mrs. Francis Behrle.

        Dates: May 1908?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/20, Item GWF1
        Location: E-J / "Great White Fleet"

    • Halco

    • Harrison

      • Description: Sternwheel steamer Harrison

        Written on verso: The "Harrison" at the dock at Harrison.

        Dates: between 1912 and 1925?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/20, Item Harrison1
        Location: E-J / Harrison

    • Harry Luckenbach

    • Hassalo

      Built at the Dalles, Oregon for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. in 1880.

    • H.B. Kennedy

      Two funnel propeller steamer built at Portland by the Willamette Iron and Steel Co. for the Puget Sound Navigation Co. in 1909 (p. 159). She was renamed Seattle in 1922 and converted to a steam ferry in 1924 (p. 324). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • H.C. Henry

    • Helena

    • Helen P. Drew

    • Hermina

      • Description: Hermina
        Dates: Between 1880 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/21, Item Hermina1
        Location: E-J / Hermina

    • H.F. Alexander

    • Hipper

    • Holiday

      • Description: Holiday
        Dates: Between 1940 and 1970?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/21, Item Holiday1
        Location: E-J / Holiday

    • Hoquiam

    • Howard

      • Description: Schooner Howard in the Hoquiam River, Washington

        Written on verso: Two mast schooner HOWARD built in San Francisco in 1869. This little vessel is typical of many of her type that carried the commerce of the Pacific Coast in their tiny hulls. This picture shows the HOWARD with a tug alongside in the Hoquiam River. Her dimensions give a fair idea of the size of these vessels: 82' long, 25' beam, 4' depth.

        Dates: Between 1885 and 1900?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/21, Item Howard1
        Location: E-J / Howard

    • Hyak

      • Description: Steamship Hyak
        Dates: Between 1909 and 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Item Hyak1
        Location: E-J / Hyak
      • Description: Steamship Hyak
        Dates: Between 1909 and 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Item Hyak2
        Location: E-J / Hyak

    • Idaho

      There were multiple ships named Idaho.

    • Illahee

    • Inland Flyer

      • Description: Launch Inland Flyer

        Written on verso: Lake Washington. Inland Flyer, 66 ft x 9 ft, Ladies cabin, 17 ft, Engine room, 16 ft, Toilet in engine room, 4 ft. 6 x 3 ft, Seats on deck, 16 ft 6 in on each side, Power, 50 HP. Equipped with electric lights.

        Dates: Between 1898 and 1910
        Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Item InlandFlyer1
        Location: E-J / Inland Flyer

    • Inlander

      • Description: Inlander
        Dates: Between 1870 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Item Inlander1
        Location: E-J / Inlander

    • Inverclyde

    • Iroquois

      The Iroquois was built in Toledo, Ohio in 1901 for the Arnold Transportation Company. The vessel registered 1,169 tons, with dimensions of 214x34.4x21.2 ft. The engine was of triple-expansion steam type and produced 2,000 hp. The Iroquois arrived in Puget Sound March 1907, purchased from the Great Lakes for the Puget Sound Navigation Company by Charles E. Peabody and Joshua Green. She was one of the first two vessels in Inland Puget Sound service to be fitted with United Wireless Telegraph equipment. The Iroquois served initially on the Victoria-Seattle route, moving later to Puget Sound routes. Following World War I, a growing need for car ferries caused the passenger-only Iroquois to return to service on the Great Lakes in 1920. It was purchased again by Puget Sound Navigation in 1928 and refitted as a "night steamer" between Seattle, Port Angeles, and Victoria. In 1947, the Iroquois was sold to Black Ball Transport and extensively modified as a freighter, remaining in service on the Puget Sound. Eventually sold to an Alaskan crab processor, the vessel was scuttled in 1982, having served for over 80 years. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966) and The Evergreen Fleet website.

      • Description: Iroquois
        Dates: Between 1907 and 1960?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Item Iroquois1
        Location: E-J / Iroquois

    • Island Belle

    • Islander

      Wood burning passenger and freight steamer built at Newhall, Washington for the Bellingham Bay-San Juan Island route, 1904.

      • Description: Steamer Islander

        This is the first Islander.

        Dates: Between 1904 and 1924
        Container: Box/Folder 1/22, Item Islander1
        Location: E-J / Islander

    • Issaquah

      Built in 1914 by the Anderson Steamboat Co. for service on Lake Washington between Leschi, Mercer Island and Newport. The vessel was sold in early 1918 to the Rodeo-Vallejo Ferry System, operating in northern San Francisco Bay. In 1927, the ferry was shifted to the Mare Island routes from Vallejo, Martinez, and Benicia. The ferry ended up abandoned on a mud flat in Sausalito. Ca. and dismantled in the 1970s.

    • James Domville

      The steamer James Domville was wrecked on Thirty Mile River in the spring of 1899.

    • Jane A. Falkenberg

      Built at New Bedford in 1854. Lost at sea in 1899 on a trip from Port Hadlock to San Francisco. The wreck was salvaged and eventually used as a breakwater at Saint Michael, Alaska. Information from Alaska Shipwrecks: 1750-2010 by Captain Warren Good.

    • Janet Carruthers

    • Jefferson

      Built in 1904 for the Alaska Steamship Co., the wooden passenger steamer Jefferson was 1,615 tons, 207x39.8x25.6 feet, powered by a triple-expansion engine with steam from three Scotch boilers, developing a total of 1,450 horsepower. The Jefferson was dismantled in late 1925 in the shipbreaking yard of Nieder & Marcus in Seattle. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. (Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.)

    • J.M. Weatherwax

      Built in Aberdeen, Washington, 1890.

    • John C. Barr

    • John Cudahy

      The John Cudahy was built in 1898 by the Moran Brothers in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. It was named for John Cudahy (1843–1915), Chicago merchant and director of NAT&T Co. Originally owned by North American Transportation & Trading Co., it was sold to Northern Navigation Co. in 1911. Later in 1914, it was acquired by the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. It was sold by WP&YR and abandoned by new owner at St. Michael, Alaska in 1927.

      • Description: John Cudahy at dock

        Album page with eight photos on it.

        Dates: between 1898 and 1905
        Container: Box/Folder 2/1, Item JohnCudahy1
        Location: E-J / John Cudahy

    • John D. Spreckels

      Wrecked in April 1913 en route from Baranof Harbor, Alaska to San Francisco, California. Collided with British steamer Statesman near Point Reyes.

    • Josephine

      The Josephine was built in Lake's Yard in North Seattle in 1878 when she began making regular trips between Seattle and the Upper Skagit River in 1878. The steamer exploded in the Puget Sound near Mukilteo on January 16, 1883 during one of her regular trips to the Upper Skagit River. After the explosion, the steamer was rebuilt and made its first trip on March 24, 1883. In 1891 the ship was sold and began making trips between Olympia and Shelton.

    • Josie Burrows

    • J.P. Light

      The steamer J.P. Light was the first of the Moran Brothers Co. "assembly line" steamers. She was launched April 23, 1898 and delivered in May to Frank Waterhouse & Co., agents for the British American Corporation, at the mouth of the Yukon. She was 409 tons.

  • K-N

    • Kailua

    • Kalakala

      Reconstructed from the San Francisco Bay ferry steamer Peralta in July 1937 by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. for the run between Seattle and Bremerton (p. 437). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Kekoskee

    • Kennewick

    • Kinugawa Maru

    • Kirkland

      Sidewheel steamer ferry Kirkland built on Lake Washington for the Jackson Street Cable Railway for service between Juanita-Kirkland-Houghton-Leschi Park (p. 43). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Kitsap

      There were multiple ships named Kitsap.

      • Description: Steamship Kitsap

        Built by Joseph Supple of Portland in 1905. Operated on the Poulsbo route and the Bellingham route. Sunk by steamer Indianapolis in Seattle in 1910. Eventually raised by the Elliot Bay Dry Dock Co. and renamed the Bremerton. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1905 and 1910
        Container: Box/Folder 2/3, Item KitsapA1
        Location: K-N / Kitsap
      • Description: Ferry Kitsap

        Built by Lake Washington Shipyards for Puget Sound service, 1925 (p. 366). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1925 and 1961
        Container: Box/Folder 2/3, Item KitsapB1
        Location: K-N / Kitsap

    • Klamath

      Passenger and freight steamer belonging to the Klamath Lake Navigation Co.

    • Klikitat

      493 ton 3-masted barkentine built by John Kruse in 1881 at the Simpson yard in North Bend, Oregon. She set a speed record in 1896 making the voyage from Honolulu to Port Townsend in 9 days, 16 hours, a record for sailing vessels which stood until 1909 (p. 3). Stranded on Honlii Point, Hawaii on Nov. 9, 1912 while operated by the Puget Sound Commercial Co. (p. 213). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Klondike

      There were two successive steamships named the Klondike in the Yukon Territory. The first, Klondike I, was built in Whitehorse and launched in 1929. The Klondike ran aground in 1936. While the ship itself was wrecked, the machinery and other parts were used to rebuild the Klondike with the same basic design. The Klondike II launched in 1937, continuing the route of her predecessor carrying passengers and freight between Whitehorse and Dawson. The Klondike II continued to operate until 1955, the last sternwheeler working on the Yukon River. Information from Parks Canada, "S.S. Klondike National Historic Site."

    • Kona

    • Kootenai

    • Koshun Maru

      Japanese freighter wrecked off the coast of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska in 1930. Wrecked near the lighthouse off the coast of Unimak Island.

    • Lady Cecilia

      • Description: Steamship Lady Cecilia

        Written on photo: SS Lady Cecilia (Union Steamship Co.? 1949?)

        Dates: 1949?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/4, Item LadyCecilia1
        Location: K-N / Lady Cecilia

    • Lady Cynthia

    • Lady of the Lake

    • Lamaina

    • Latona

      • Description: Steam launch Latona

        Written on verso: The steam launch "Latona" was built by James M. Colman. It was purchased by Edw. C. Kilbourne who took it up the Duwamish River into the Black River into Lake Washington and via D.J. Denny's log ditch into Lake Union. Dr. Kilbourne was joined by J.A. Moore forming the Lake Union Transportation Co. which operated the Latona and Maud Foster. The two steamers carried freight and passengers between the terminus of Frank Osgood's horse car line, near Valley & Fairview Ave., and their additions on the north side of the lake.

        Dates: Between 1880 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/5, Item Latona1
        Location: K-N / Latona

    • Lawton

      Images featuring the Lawton are pasted on album pages.

    • Leba

      • Description: Leba
        Dates: Between 1920 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/5, Item Leba1
        Location: K-N / Leba

    • Liberty

      • Description: Steamer Liberty

        Written on verso: Pacific Fisherman. 5 ½ inches long. 133 zinc enamel.

        Dates: Between 1890 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/5, Item Liberty1
        Location: K-N / Liberty

    • U.S. Lily

    • Loreli

      • Description: Tug Loreli
        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/6, Item Loreli1
        Location: K-N / Loreli

    • Loyal N1

      • Description: Steamer Harry Luckenbach and tug Loyal N1 probably docked at Seattle

        Written on verso: Harry Luckenbach, freighter. Tug, Loyal N1

        Filed under Harry Luckenbach subseries.

        Dates: Between 1919 and 1943
        Container: Box/Folder 1/20, Item HarryLuckenbach1
        Location: K-N / Loyal N1

    • L.T. Haas

      The L.T. Haas was operated by Carlson Brothers as the Interlake Steamship Co., on the Leschi Park-Meydenbauer Bay run (p. 81). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Lydia Thompson

      • Description: Puget Sound passenger steamship Lydia Thompson

        Written on verso: Built in 1893 at Port Angeles. 92' long, 22' beam, 6'8" long. Gross 202 net 101. Engines triple 11-15-25x16 160# steam. Built by Enos Raymond for the Thompson Bros. who later incorporated as the Thompson Steamboat Co. Her first service was for a year on the Seattle-Hood Canal route relieving the Delta. Then on the Seattle-Bellingham run. In 1896 the Thompson went on the Seattle-San Juan Island-Bellingham Bay route where she remained until replaced by the Rosalie in 1905. Had been sold to Puget Sound Navigation Co. in 1903. Her last service was as freight boat on Hoods Canal and other short routes. Bought by Harry Crosby in 1910 and cut down for tug-boat. Renamed Monitor. Passed to the Independent Towing Co. who wore her out and stripped her in 1930. Hull in Lake Union in 1943.

        Dates: Between 1893 and 1910
        Container: Box/Folder 2/6, Item LydiaThompson1
        Location: K-N / Lydia Thompson
      • Description: Steamers North Pacific and Lydia Thompson at the Chautauqua dock on Vashon Island
        Dates: 1893
        Container: Box/Folder 2/11, Item North Pacific2
        Location: K-N / Lydia Thompson

    • Maid of Orleans

      The Maid of Orleans was a two-masted schooner of 180 tons built at San Francisco in 1882 for the South Seas trade. She was acquired by the Pacific Coast Codfish Co. In 1906, the largest codfishing fleet yet assembled on Puget Sound sailed for the Bering Sea grounds from Seattle, Tacoma, and Anacortes, consisting of the schooners, Carrier Dove, Fanny Dutard, Lizzie Colby, Maid of Orleans, Harold Blekum, Fortuna, Joseph Russ, and Alice. Their catch totaled 1,014,618 fish (p. 123). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Majestic

      Built at Everett by E. Heath for the Thompson Steamboat Co. in 1901 (p. 70), renamed the Whatcom in 1904, operated under the Alaska Steamship Co. (p. 100), lost off Pt. Pfeiffer in 1909 (p. 165), purchased by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. and converted in 1921 to the steam ferry City of Bremerton (p. 324). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Malaspina

      Designed in 1962 for the State of Alaska's Commission of Public Works for the run between Prince Rupert and Haines, Alaska (p. 663). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Ocean going ferry Malaspina

        Written on verso: State of Alaska M/V Malaspina. Ketchikan-Wrangell-Petersburg-Sitka-Juneau-Haines-Skagway.

        Dates: Between 1962 and 1980?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/7, Item Malaspina1
        Location: K-N / Malaspina

    • Mame

      • Description: Steamboat Mame
        Dates: Between 1880 and 1910?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/7, Item Mame1
        Location: K-N / Mame

    • Margaret

    • Marion

    • Marutta

      • Description: Yacht Marutta
        Dates: Between 1935 and 1966?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/7, Item Marutta1
        Location: K-N / Marutta

    • Mary Moody

    • Mascot, 1900

      Lewis River Transportation Co. sternwheeler which ran aground on January 4, 1900 on the North Fork of the Lewis river under Captain Davis. It was popularly known as the "Hoodoo".

      • Description: Steamer Mascot, wrecked

        Also includes the sternwheel Lurline. Taken near La Center, Washington.

        Purchased from Zephyr Used & Rare Books, 2024

        Dates: 1900
        Container: Box/Folder 2/7
        Location: K-N / Mascot, 1900

    • U.S.S. Massachusetts

    • Maud

      Built for Roald Amundsen in Norway in 1917 as a polar exploration vessel.

      • Description: Maud
        Dates: 1921?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/7, Item Maud1
        Location: K-N / Maud

    • Mazama

    • Melrose

      Built in 1902 for the Coast Shipping Co.

    • Mercury

    • Mexico

    • Minnesota

    • U.S.S. Missouri

    • U.S.S. Mohican

    • Monarch

    • Montana

      The S.S. Montana was a Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company (P.M.S.S. Co.) steamer that operated between San Francisco and Panama from 1866 to 1869. In the early 1870s the Colorado Steam Navigation Company bought the Montana from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, to run between San Francisco and the mouth of the Colorado. The Montana caught fire and ran aground just out of Guaymas, Mexico in December 1876 (p.58). Information from Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916 by Richard E. Lingenfelter (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978).

    • Monterey

      The U.S.S. Monterey was a U.S. naval monitor ship, a steam-powered ironclad vessel with a low deck and armored turrets.

    • Mount Vernon

      Formerly the Robert Bridges, used on the Anacortes-Sydney, B.C. run in 1935 (p. 341). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Muskoka

    • Nann Smith

      C.A. Smith, who had completed a large sawmill at Marshfield, engaged Edward S. Hough of San Francisco to design a specialized steel lumber-carrying steamer for operation between Coos Bay, Washington, and California. This vessel, the Nann Smith of 2,009 tons, with a carrying capacity of 2,250,000 board feet, was completed in 1907 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. of Virginia and placed in operation in 1908 by the Inter-Ocean Transportation Co., a Smith subsidiary. This was a particularly interesting development from the historical standpoint, for it marked the beginning of packaged lumber shipments. Water shipment of packaged lumber is generally considered to be a post-World War II development and few are aware that it was pioneered well over half a century before (p. 152). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Navarino

      • Description: Navarino
        Dates: Between 1937 and 1962
        Container: Box/Folder 2/9, Item Navarino1
        Location: K-N / Navarino

    • U.S.S. Nebraska

    • Nellie

      • Description: Steamboats Nellie and Wm. F. Monroe at dock

        Written on verso: Nellie & Wm. F. Monroe. Nellie built at Seattle 1876, 55.03 or 100 tons. Wm. F. Monroe built at Seattle 1883, 99.81 tons.

        Dates: Between 1883 and 1896
        Container: Box/Folder 2/9, Item Nellie1
        Location: K-N / Nellie

    • New England

    • U.S.S. Newark

    • New Life

    • New York

      There were multiple ships named New York.

    • Niels Nielsen

      Built by Todd Shipyards Corp. for the Norwegian shipping firm of B. Stolt-Nielsen, she was the first merchant steamship ever built there for foreign owners. Keel was laid in May of 1916, work on the vessel began in June, and she was launched in September of the same year (p. 266). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Nizina

      The veteran West Coast steel cargo carrier Nizina was brought out from the Great Lakes in 1902 as the Eureka by the old Globe Navigation Co. She was operated by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. from 1908 to 1916, and later by the Alaska Steamship Co. as the Ketchikan and (from 1926) the Nizina. Sold to Japanese scrappers and loaded with lumber and scrap metal on Puget Sound for her final voyage (p. 458). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Nome City

      The 939 ton wood steam schooner Nome City was chartered by the Pacific Clipper line. She was built in 1900 and had extensive passenger accommodations (p. 55). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • North Bend

    • North Pacific

      The North Pacific Co. operated the old Puget Sound sidewheel steamer North Pacific to Skagway and Dyea early in the 1898 season, departing Seattle every 15 days carrying 150 first-class and 150 second-class passengers and 70 tons of freight. She made her last voyage from the north on April 26, 1898, and was then temporarily laid up at Port Townsend before resuming local service on Puget Sound. (pg. 36). While operating on the Tacoma-Vancouver service on July 18, 1903, the North Pacific struck the rocks off Marrowstone Point during a heavy fog. Her hull was badly damaged. The tug C.B. Smith removed her passengers and crew, after which she drifted off and sank in deep water (p. 94). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Nushagak

  • O-S

    • Ocean Wave

      The 724 ton Ocean Wave was designed by Jacob Kamm and built at Portland, Oregon, for the "seaside route" of the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Co. between Portland and Ilwaco, having been placed in service in 1891. On May 20, 1899, she departed Port Angeles, bound for San Francisco towed by a tug. The Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway, having established its transcontinental western terminus at Richmond, California, was in need of a steamer to ferry passengers into San Francisco. She was laid up in 1911 at Antioch. She was then put back into service during World War I, having been purchased by the U.S. Shipping Board. In the 1920s she was sold for use as a floating restaurant (p. 50). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Octavia

      The Octavia was a four-masted German bark out of Hamburg built as the Loch Nevis by J. Reid & Co., Glasgow in 1894 and was renamed the Octavia in 1900. She was damaged by a fire in 1902. Her hull was used in building the Argentine steamer Primero in 1916.

    • Ohio

    • U.S.S. Olympia

      The naval cruiser Olympia pictured here is a different vessel than the steamship Olympia which was wrecked near Bligh Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1910.

      • Description: U.S.S. Olympia
        Dates: Between 1892 and 1922
        Container: Box/Folder 2/11, Item Olympia1
        Location: O-S / U.S.S. Olympia
      • Description: U.S.S. Olympia
        Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Photographic Laboratory (photographer)

        Written on photo: 203-45.

        The U.S.S. Olympia was commission in 1895 and served in the Spanish American War. She now serves as a museum ship at Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

        Dates: between 1900 and 1957
        Container: Mapcase:oversize M, Item Olympia2
        Location: O-S / U.S.S. Olympia

    • Olympian

      There were multiple ships named Olympian.

      • Description: Sidewheel steamers Amelia and Olympian at dock

        The sidewheel steamer Olympian was built in Wilmington, Delaware in 1883 for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. (O.R.&N.). The Olympian was wrecked in 1903 (p 94). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Filed under Amelia subseries.

        Dates: Between 1883 and 1903
        Container: Box/Folder 1/2, Item Amelia1
        Location: O-S / Olympian
      • Description: Sidewheel steamer Olympian

        The sidewheel steamer Olympian was built in Wilmington, Delaware in 1883 for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. (O.R. & N.). The Olympian was wrecked in 1903 (p 94). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1883 and 1903
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OlympianA1
        Location: O-S / Olympian
      • Description: Sidewheel steamer Olympian

        The sidewheel steamer Olympian was built in Wilmington, Delaware in 1883 for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. (O.R. & N.). The Olympian was wrecked in 1903 (p 94). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1883 and 1903
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OlympianA2
        Location: O-S / Olympian
      • Description: Sternwheel steamer Olympian

        Formerly the Telegraph prior to 1912 (p. 209). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1912 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OlympianB1
        Location: O-S / Olympian

    • Oncorhynchus

    • Oregon

      There were multiple ships named Oregon.

      • Description: Steamship Oregon in the ice at Nome, Alaska

        Iron steamer built at Chester, PA, in 1878 and arrived on the Pacific Coast the following year for the Portland-San Francisco service. Laid up at Portland in 1894 but came back into service for the Klondike Gold Rush, holding the Nome-Puget Sound record at the time of her loss. White Star Steamship Co. owned the S.S. Oregon from ca. 1902 to 1905. (p. 75 and p. 125). At midnight on September 13, 1906, she struck the rocks on the beach at Cape Hinchinbrook near the entrance to Prince William Sound and was later deemed a total loss (pp. 124-125). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: June 11, 1904
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OregonA1
        Location: O-S / Oregon
      • Description: Steamship Oregon with logo of White Star Steamship Co. on funnel

        Iron steamer built at Chester, PA, in 1878 and arrived on the Pacific Coast the following year for the Portland-San Francisco service. Laid up at Portland in 1894 but came back into service for the Klondike Gold Rush, holding the Nome-Puget Sound record at the time of her loss. White Star Steamship Co. owned the S.S. Oregon from ca. 1902 to 1905. (p. 75 and p. 125). At midnight on September 13, 1906, she struck the rocks on the beach at Cape Hinchinbrook near the entrance to Prince William Sound and was later deemed a total loss (pp. 124-125). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1902 and 1905?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OregonA2
        Location: O-S / Oregon
      • Description: Steamship Oregon underway with passengers

        Iron steamer built at Chester, PA, in 1878 and arrived on the Pacific Coast the following year for the Portland-San Francisco service. Laid up at Portland in 1894 but came back into service for the Klondike Gold Rush, holding the Nome-Puget Sound record at the time of her loss. At midnight on September 13, 1906, she struck the rocks on the beach at Cape Hinchinbrook near the entrance to Prince William Sound and was later deemed a total loss (pp. 124-125). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1878 and September 13, 1906
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OregonA3
        Location: O-S / Oregon
      • Description: Battleship U.S.S. Oregon taking on crew, probably off of West Seattle

        The U.S. battleship Oregon was a noted Spanish American War fighting ship. It was idle from 1906 to 1911, when it was recommissioned at the Bremerton Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington, after extensive modernization (p. 193). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: September 7, 1895
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OregonB1
        Location: O-S / Oregon
      • Description: Battleship Oregon taking on crew

        The U.S. battleship Oregon was a noted Spanish American War fighting ship. She was idle from 1906 to 1911, when she was recommissioned at the Bremerton Navy Yard at Bremerton, Washington, after extensive modernization (p. 193). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1893 and 1919
        Container: Box/Folder 2/12, Item OregonB2
        Location: O-S / Oregon
      • Description: Steam schooners Svea, Idaho, Oregon, and Helen P. Drew at dock

        Filed under Helen P. Drew subseries.

        Dates: Between 1904 and 1950?
        Container: Box/Folder 1/21, Item HelenP.Drew1
        Location: O-S / Oregon

    • Oregon Mail

    • Orizaba

      • Description: Painting of steamship Orizaba

        Written on verso: Pacific Coast Steamship Co's Steamer Orizaba.

        Dates: Between 1860 and 1875?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/13, Item Orizaba1
        Location: O-S / Orizaba

    • Otsego

      • Description: Steamship Otsego
        Dates: Between 1901 and 1944?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/13, Item Otsego1
        Location: O-S / Otsego

    • Pacific

      The Pacific was owned by Alaska Packers Association and converted to gasoline-powered engines in 1912 (p. 206). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Parthia

    • Paul Shoup

      • Description: Paul Shoup
        Dates: Between 1921 and 1954?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/13, Item PaulShoup1
        Location: O-S / Paul Shoup

    • P.B. Anderson

    • U.S.S. Pennsylvania

    • Perdita

      The Perdita was a propeller passenger steamer built at Seattle by W.W. McKenzie for Hood Canal service, As originally built, she registered 209 tons. She was later rebuilt to 286 tons. She was powered by a triple-expansion engine (p. 90). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • U.S.S. Philadelphia

    • Philip B. Low

    • Pioneer

      The three-masted schooner Pioneer lost her rudder and was wrecked on the Oregon coast near Nestucca Beach on December 17, 1900 (p. 62). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Point Loma

      The 310-ton steam schooner Point Loma stranded on Long Beach, Washington, near Seaview on February 28, 1896, while en route from Grays Harbor for San Francisco with lumber and in charge of Capt. Conway. The coastal lumber carrier had been struck the previous day by one of the worst gales of the year. At midnight the engine broke down, the sails blew away and the wooden hull began leaking so badly that the boiler fires were extinguished. As the wind and high seas carried her toward the beach, rockets were fired, alerting the Fort Canby lifesaving crew. High seas made it impossible to launch the surf boat, but a line fired from the beach reached the grounded steamer and the 17-man crew was rescued by breeches buoy. The Point Loma, which became a total loss, was one of the early vessels of her type built at San Francisco in 1888, showing sailing ship lines, two masts with fore-and-aft sails and a swinging cargo gaff. She was the first to establish regularly scheduled steamship service between that port and Grays Harbor. At the time of her loss she was owned by the Grays Harbor Commercial Co., an association of the mill owners belonging to the Pacific Pine Lumber co., which operated a large lumber mill at Cosmopolis, Washington (p. 6). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Polar Star

      • Description: Motor vessel Polar Star

        Written on verso: MV Polar Star, West Lines, Tracy Arm between Juneau and Petersburg. A11434-7.

        Dates: 1970?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/14, Item PolarStar1
        Location: O-S / Polar Star

    • Politofsky

    • Port Douglas

    • Portland

      In July 1897, the Portland brought the first load of gold from the Yukon gold fields to Seattle (p. 12). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Preble

    • President

      The President was built in 1907 for the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. She was a single-screw vessel of 5,453 tons, originally built as a coal-burner and having a very tall funnel. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Co. at Camden, NJ. She serviced the run between Puget Sound, Victoria, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, developing a heavy trade in citrus fruits between southern California and Puget Sound (p. 138). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • President Madison

      Formerly the Bay State, the President Madison was one of five 25,000-deadweight ton passenger and freight liners of the "535" class allocated by the U.S. Shipping Board in 1921 for operation by the Admiral Line between Puget Sound and the Orient. (pg. 317) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Prince George

      The Prince George was a Canadian National Steamship vessel.

      • Description: Image of sounder recording showing depths in Seymour Narrows from Johnstone Straits to Straits of Georgia

        Sounder recording made by crew of the S.S. Prince George on Voyage 330. Written on verso: Ripple Rock area after blasting off of top in 1948. Voyage 330 was the cruise that departed Vancouver B.C., August 21, 1961.

        Dates: 1961
        Container: Box/Folder 2/15, Item PrinceGeorge1
        Location: O-S / Prince George
      • Description: Image of sounder recording showing depths in Wrangell Narrows southbound from Buoy #63

        Sounder recording made by crew of the S.S. Prince George on Voyage 330. Written on verso: Voyage 330 was the cruise that departed Vancouver B.C. August 21, 1961.

        Dates: 1961
        Container: Box/Folder 2/15, Item PrinceGeorge2
        Location: O-S / Prince George

    • Prince Henry

      The Prince Henry was one of three passenger liners from British yards that arrived in Vancouver in 1930 to provide passenger service between Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle. The other ships were the Prince David and the Prince Robert. The Prince Henry was the first of the trio of ships to arrive in Vancouver on June 21, 1930 (p. 400). This service ended in 1931. The Prince Henry left Vancouver in November 1931 on a cruise to Halifax and subsequent East Coast service (p. 409). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Prince Rupert

    • Princess Alice

    • Princess Beatrice

      The Princess Beatrice was built in 1903 by the British Columbia Marine Railway at Victoria. She was a wooden vessel of 1,290 tons powered by a single reciprocating engine of 1,392 horsepower, giving her a speed of 13 knots. She was the first new vessel to enter the Canadian Pacific Railway service (p. 90). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Princess Elaine

      The Princess Elaine was constructed by the John Brown yards on the Clyde in England. She was put into service in May of 1928 on the Nanaimo-Vancouver service. She was a triple-screw turbine steamer of 2,027 tons (p. 384). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Princess Elizabeth

      The Princess Elizabeth was built by the Fairfield Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the B.C. Coast Service of the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was put into service in 1930 and was in service until 1959 (p. 634). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Princess Kathleen

      The S.S. Princess Kathleen was launched in September of 1924 and was owned and operated by Canadian Pacific Steamships. She arrived at Victoria in 1925 from the builder's yards in Clydebank, Scotland. Princess Kathleen transported passengers between Victoria, Vancouver, and Seattle. She was requisitioned by the Royal Canadian Navy as a troop ship during World War II. The Kathleen met her fate in 1952 when she struck Point Lena rock near Juneau, Alaska, during a storm, became stranded, and sank upon being freed from the rock. All aboard the ship at the time of the wreck survived.

    • Princess Marguerite

      The Princess Marguerite was built by the John Brown yards on the Clyde in England for the B.C. Coast Service of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The older Princess Marguerite was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean in 1942. The new Princess Marguerite was put in service in 1949, having been designed for day service on the Seattle-Victoria-Vancouver international triangle run during the summer months. She and her sister ship, the Princess Patricia, were of 5,911 tons and were powered by twin-screw steam turbo-electric drive (p. 561). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Princess May

    • Princess Norah

      The Princess Norah, designed for West Coast of Vancouver Island freight and passenger service, was a single-screw, single-stack vessel of 2,731 tons with a service speed of 16 knots. She was equipped to carry 700 day passengers or 179 in 61 staterooms. A product of the Fairfield yard in Glasgow, Scotland, her maiden voyage was April 1928. Later renamed the Queen of the North (pp. 384-385). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Steamship Princess Norah

        Written on verso: Princess Norah, Canadian Pacific S.S. Co.

        Dates: Between 1928 and 1950?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/16, Item PrincessNorah1
        Location: O-S / Princess Norah

    • Princess of Vancouver

      Provided ferry service for the Vancouver-Nanaimo, B.C., run. Built in Glasgow, Scotland (p. 627). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Princess Patricia

      The Princess Patricia was built by the Fairfield Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the B.C. Coast Service of the Canadian Pacific Railway. She entered service in 1949 for the Seattle-Victoria-Vancouver international triangle run during the summer months (p. 561). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Princess Sophia

      The S.S. Princess Sophia was built in 1912 at Paisley, England, by Bow, McLachlan, & Co. for Canadian Pacific Railway. She was a single-screw steel steamship designed for service from Vancouver and Victoria to northern British Columbia ports and Alaska. She was 245 feet in length with a 44-foot beam. (pg. 204) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). The Princess Sophia was wrecked and sank near Vanderbilt Reef in Alaska in October 1918. Over 350 passengers and crew were aboard at the time; none survived the wreck. Information from the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park website.

    • Printer

    • Prosper

      Built in 1898 at Port Townsend, WA (p. 32). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • U.S.S. Pueblo

    • Queen

      There were multiple ships named Queen.

    • Description: Steamship Queen at dock in Port Townsend after fire at sea
      Dates: February 27, 1904
      Container: Box/Folder 2/17, Item QueenB1
      Location: O-S

    • Quilcene

      Put into service ca. 1929 on the Seattle-Port Townsend run and then the new Edmonds-Port Townsend route (p. 402). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Quillayute

      • Description: Ferry Quillayute
        Dates: Between 1927 and 2003
        Container: Box/Folder 2/17, Item Quillayute1
        Location: O-S / Quillayute

    • Ramona

    • R.C. Slade

      The 673 ton, four-masted schooner R.C. Slade was constructed in 1900 at Aberdeen, WA, by John Lindstrom. She was sunk by the German Navy in 1917 (p. 58 and p. 293). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Schooner Reporter

      The 337-ton lumber schooner Reporter, built by Hall Bros. in 1876 when their yard was still located at Port Ludlow, was wrecked March 13, 1902, south of Grays Harbor (p. 83). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Schooner Reporter

        Written on verso: Schooner "Reporter" of Hoquiam, Wash.

        Dates: Between 1876 and March 1902
        Container: Box/Folder 2/17, Item Reporter1
        Location: O-S / Schooner Reporter

    • Resolute

      Built in 1902 in Hoquiam, Washington, by Hitchings & Joyce.

    • R.H. Fauntleroy

    • R.J. Hanna

      • Description: R.J. Hanna
        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/17, Item R.J.Hanna1
        Location: O-S / R.J. Hanna

    • Roanoke

    • Roosevelt

    • Rosalie

      The Rosalie was a wooden propeller steamer built in Alameda, CA, in 1893. She was sent north for the Puget Sound-Alaska route. She was soon placed into service on the Victoria run (p. 14). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Rosebud

      • Description: Rosebud
        Dates: Between 1913 and 1950?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/18, Item Rosebud1
        Location: O-S / Rosebud

    • Rosecrans

      The Rosecrans was a screw steamer built by Barclay, Curle, & Co. in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1883 as the Methven Castle. She was renamed Columbia in 1897 and finally, the Rosecrans in 1898. This ship was acquired by the U.S. military as a US Army Transport (U.S.A.T.) ship, used to transport troops to the Philippines during the Philippine-American War. The Rosecrans was converted to a tanker in 1902. She was wrecked off of Astoria, Oregon, on January 7, 1913. Notes from the Caledonian Maritime Research Trust and Paul Silverstone's "The New Navy, 1883-1922" (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2006).

    • Rossland

    • Royal

      • Description: Tugboat Royal

        Written on verso: Tug - fishing.

        Dates: Between 1910 and 1960?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/19, Item Royal1
        Location: O-S / Royal

    • Ruby A. Cousins

      The schooner Ruby A. Cousins, Seattle for Valdez, was wrecked October 16, 1900, at the entrance of Prince William Sound, but was salvaged and renamed Harold Blekum (p. 62). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Ryba

      The Grays Harbor tug Ryba of the Allman Hubble Tug Boat Co., (a 66 -foot steamer built at Alameda, Calif. in 1902), capsized on the bar while heading back after taking a pilot to an incoming ship April 30, 1925. Although the Etna Maru, aboard which the Ryba had just placed Pilot Charles Hanson, the Lake Frances, the dredge Culebra , and the tug John Cudahy were all nearby, only Capt. Samuel A. Anderson, master of the tug, could be saved. Basil Hubble, engineer and brother of Frank and Alonzo Hubble, owners of the tug, Harry Hubble, Jr., a nephew, the vessel's fireman, and deckhand Phillip Barnes, went down with the capsized tug (p. 368). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Tug Ryba
        Dates: Between 1902 and 1925
        Container: Box/Folder 2/19, Item Ryba1
        Location: O-S / Ryba

    • Salvor

    • U.S.S. San Francisco

    • San Juan

      The San Juan, a 284-ton fishing steamer, 118 feet in length, was built in 1904 at Seattle by Sloan & Hill for the San Juan Fishing & Packing Co., later passing to Libby, McNeill, and Libby (p. 106). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Santa Clara

      The wood passenger and freight steamer Santa Clara was built at Everett in 1900 as the John S. Kimball. She was 1,588 tons. On November 2, 1915, she was wrecked and destroyed off the coast of Coos Bay, with the loss of 16 lives (p. 145 and p. 256). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Steamship Santa Clara

        Possibly showing the Santa Clara navigating the Panama Canal in June 1914.

        Dates: Between 1900 and November 1915
        Container: Box/Folder 2/19, Item SantaClara1
        Location: O-S / Santa Clara

    • Sarah

      The Sarah was built in 1898 by the Howard shipyard at Jeffersonville, Indiana, using molds from the Ohio river boats Bluff City and Dolphin No. 3. Along with her sister ships, Susie and Hannah, she was shipped in sections to Unalaska, where she was assembled by the Alaska Commercial Co. and proceeded from there to St. Michael and the Yukon under her own power. They were spectacular boats in the grand tradition of the Western river packets, particularly at night when they made their fast passages up and down the desolate Yukon with decks and cabins ablaze with lights. Their niceties included spacious mahogany paneled dining salons and two and three-berth staterooms to accommodate 150 first-class passengers. She was out of service by 1920 (p. 29 and p. 309). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Schley

    • Sea Lion

      In July 1897, the steam tug Sea Lion was chartered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper to take reporters to intercept the Portland upon her arrival at Cape Flattery to investigate rumors that a large quantity of gold was aboard, being brought down from the Yukon. At that time, the Sea Lion was owned by Puget Sound Tug Boat company at Port Townsend (p. 12). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Seattle

      There were multiple ships named Seattle.

      • Description: Steam ferry Seattle

        Formerly the H.B. Kennedy, she was renamed in 1922 and converted to a steam ferry in 1924 (pg. 324). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1924 and 1939
        Container: Box/Folder 2/20, Item SeattleA1-A3
        Location: O-S / Seattle
      • Description: Battleship U.S.S. Seattle

        Launched in 1905 as the U.S.S. Washington, she was renamed the U.S.S. Seattle in 1916. She was decommissioned in 1946.

        Dates: Between 1918 and 1946
        Container: Box/Folder 2/20, Item SeattleB1
        Location: O-S / Seattle

    • Seattle No. 3

      Seattle No. 3 was in operation on the Yukon River as early as 1899. At that time, the steamboat was owned by the Seattle-Yukon Transportation Co. (p. 30). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Seattle Spirit

      The Seattle Spirit was a small freight steamer of 81 tons, 83 feet long, built at Ballard in 1906 for Norman R. Smith (p. 119). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Senator

      In 1898, the steel passenger steamer Senator was built by the Union Iron Works at San Francisco for the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. She was a single-screw vessel of 2,432 tons. She had a speed of 10.8 knots. She was taken over by the government upon her completion and carried 1,004 troops on her first voyage to Manila. Upon her return to the company she was immediately placed on the Cape Nome route from San Francisco via Seattle and Tacoma (pp. 31-32). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Seward

    • Shannon Foss

    • Steamship Siberia Maru

      The former Pacific Mail liner Siberia passed, in 1916, to Japanese ownership as the Siberia Maru. She was diverted in 1929 from the N.Y.K. San Francisco-Oriental route to the Puget Sound-British Columbia-Oriental route, being replaced shortly by a vessel of the Hikawa Maru class (p. 398). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Steamship Siberia Maru

        Post Card. Printed by G.T. Sun Co.

        Written on photo: N.Y.K. Seattle-Orient Liner S.S. "SIBERIA-MARU."

        Dates: 1935?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/21, Item SiberiaMaru1
        Location: O-S / Steamship Siberia Maru

    • Silver Wave

    • Skagit

    • Skagit Belle

      • Description: Sternwheel steamer Skagit Belle

        Written on verso: "Skagit Belle" wood freighter, stern-wheel. Gross 555, net 513. Dim. 164.5 x 40.3 x 6.7. 1941 Everett. Built for Harold Durham for Skagit River Navigation Co. to replace "Gleaner." Engines were the high pressure half from the Columbia River Steamer "Umitilla"[sic]. In A.J.S. service 1943.

        Dates: Between 1941 and 1950
        Container: Box/Folder 2/22, Item SkagitBelle1
        Location: O-S / Skagit Belle
      • Description: Sternwheel steamer Skagit Belle
        Dates: Between 1941 and 1950
        Container: Box/Folder 2/22, Item SkagitBelle2
        Location: O-S / Skagit Belle

    • Skagit Chief

      The Skagit Chief was built in 1934 by Lake Union Dry Dock & Machine Works for the Skagit River Navigation & Trading Co. She was designed for the Seattle, Stanwood, Mt. Vernon and La Conner route. She was a shallow-draft vessel fitted with "spuds" (heavy upright beams which could be lowered to the river bed) to enable her to hoist herself over shoals and to make difficult turns in the river. Of 502 tons, with dimensions of 165x40.1x6.4 and a draft of 18 inches, the Skagit Chief was fitted with the 400-horsepower single-cylinder engines from the former Columbia River steamer G.K. Wentworth of 1905. The Skagit Chief sank in 1956 while being towed to the Portland Harbor Marina to be converted to a floating restaurant on the Willamette River (p. 437 and p. 615). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • S.N. Castle

      The S.N. Castle was a three-masted schooner of 514 tons, built by Hall Bros. in 1886 as a three-masted barkentine. After long service in the Hawaiian sugar trade, the Bering Sea codfishery and South Seas copra trade, she was towed to southern California in January 1926 for use in a motion picture and burned at Catalina February 17, 1926 (p. 376). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Barkentine S.N. Castle at Port Townsend, Washington

        Written on verso: Windjammers loading at Port Townsend. In the early '90s such scenes as this were common at Puget Sound ports as the sailing vessels loaded lumber, grain and general freight for world markets. Built at Port Blakely. SNC at far right.

        Dates: 1893?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/22, Item S.N.Castle1
        Location: O-S / S.N. Castle

    • Snoqualmie

      • Description: Snoqualmie
        F.G. Moran (Photographer)

        Written on photo: "Kunstadter" screw & stearing [sic] gear. Seattle fire boat. Built by Seattle Dry Dock & Ship Building Co.

        Dates: 1890
        Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Item Snoqualmie1
        Location: O-S / Snoqualmie

    • U.S.S. Somers

    • South Bend

    • Spokane

      There were multiple ships named Spokane.

      • Description: Steamboat Spokane
        Dates: Between 1890 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Item SpokaneA1
        Location: O-S / Spokane
      • Description: Steamboat Spokane
        Dates: Between 1890 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Item SpokaneA2
        Location: O-S / Spokane
      • Description: Deck and passengers aboard the steamship Spokane in Alaska

        The finest vessel yet to fly the houseflag of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. appeared in 1902 with the completion at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, of the steamship Spokane, especially designed for the growing Alaska tourist excursion trade which had developed as a result of the international attention focused on that territory by the recent gold finds in the Klondike, at Cape Nome, Copper River and in other areas. The Spokane was a steel, single-screw vessel of 2,277 tons. She was fitted out to carry 171 first-class passengers in most comfortable accommodations. In addition, she had facilities for 100 in steerage, for even though she was designed primarily for the excursion trade, the heavy seasonal movement of cannery workers to the north made the transportation of steerage passengers a profitable segment of steamship operation on the North Pacific (p. 79). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).She suffered damages when she ran ashore in June of 1910 at Peril Straits, Alaska, which resulted in costly repairs. The following year, she hit an uncharted rock in Seymour Narrows and had her hull torn open underwater. She was driven to the safety of shallow waters and was towed by the steamer Salvor and was repaired by the British Columbia Salvage Company. In 1921, she was renamed Admiral Rogers and was scrapped by the early 1940s due to being unprofitable.

        Written on photo: 8210. One and one-half hours' fishing, on Alaska excursion steamship "Spokane" reached via the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.

        Dates: Between 1902 and 1915?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Item SpokaneB1
        Location: O-S / Spokane
      • Description: Steamship Spokane in Glacier Bay, Alaska

        The finest vessel yet to fly the houseflag of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. appeared in 1902 with the completion at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, of the steamship Spokane, especially designed for the growing Alaska tourist excursion trade which had developed as a result of the international attention focused on that territory by the recent gold finds in the Klondike, at Cape Nome, Copper River and in other areas. The Spokane was a steel, single-screw vessel of 2,277 tons. She was fitted out to carry 171 first-class passengers in most comfortable accommodations. In addition, she had facilities for 100 in steerage, for even though she was designed primarily for the excursion trade, the heavy seasonal movement of cannery workers to the north made the transportation of steerage passengers a profitable segment of steamship operation on the North Pacific (p. 79). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).She suffered damages when she ran ashore in June of 1910 at Peril Straits, Alaska which resulted in costly repairs. The following year, she hit an uncharted rock in Seymour Narrows and had her hull torn open underwater. She was driven to the safety of shallow waters and was towed by the steamer Salvor and was repaired by the British Columbia Salvage Company. In 1921, she was renamed Admiral Rogers and was scrapped by the early 1940s due to being unprofitable.

        Written on verso: S.S. Spokane among the ice bergs of Glacier Bay in front of the Muir Glacier between Skagway and Juneau.

        Dates: 1907
        Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Item SpokaneB2
        Location: O-S / Spokane

    • Squak Valley

    • St. Paul

      • Description: Sailing ship St. Paul
        Walter P. Miller (Photographer)

        Written on verso: Famous full rigged ship St Paul on her last voyage before being converted into a Marine Museum by the Foss Tug & Barge Co. The ship is now moored near the Lake Washington Canal locks, Seattle, Washington. (Credit Photo Walter P. Miller).

        Dates: 1934?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/23, Item St.Paul1
        Location: O-S / St. Paul

    • Stella Erland

      In 1898, between Middleton Island and Prince William Sound, bound from Seattle for Copper River, the Stella Erland fell in with the steam schooner Albion, Portland for Valdez with 98 passengers. The Albion 's master, no doubt an expert in the doghole navigation of the Redwood (northern California) coast, had not the slightest idea where he was. The pilot, who claimed to be an expert Alaska navigator, was equally bewildered. The skipper of the Stella Erland, who had been there before, agreed to pilot the steamer in return for a tow for his schooner, the two vessels thus reaching their destination safely, and the Stella Erland more rapidly than her crew had expected her to (p. 38). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Success

      A great attraction on the Northwest waterfronts in 1915 was the ancient convict ship Success, claimed to have been built in 1790, but actually constructed about 1840 of Burmese teak in India for the service of the East India Company. Her publicity claimed that she had been taken over by the British government in 1802 for transporting felons to the penal colonies of New South Wales. Actually, although used as a floating jail in 1852, she never actually carried convicts. Owned by Capt. D.H. Smith, and fitted out as a floating museum of horrors, the bluff, beak-bowed vessel, rerigged as a barkentine, was towed around from the East Coast without mishap. She remained in Northwest waters until 1916 and lasted until 1946, when she was accidentally burned near Port Clinton, Ohio (p. 252). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Sunland

      • Description: Boat Sunland
        Dates: Between 1870 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 2/24, Item Sunland1
        Location: O-S / Sunland

    • Susie

      The steamer Susie was built at Seattle in 1879 and operated on the Tacoma-North Bay run until 1897, when she was sold to the Franco-American Canning Co. at Fairhaven as a cannery tender (p. 20). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Sternwheel steamer Susie
        Dates: Between 1879 and 1897
        Container: Box/Folder 2/24, Item Susie1
        Location: O-S / Susie
      • Description: Sternwheel steamer Susie
        Goetzman (Photographer)

        Written on photo: Off for Cape Nome. Dawson. A.C. Co. Steamer.

        Dates: Between 1897 and 1904
        Container: Box/Folder 2/24, Item Susie2
        Location: O-S / Susie

    • Svea

  • T-Z

    • Tacoma

      There were multiple ships named Tacoma.

      • Description: U.S.S. Tacoma at dock

        Written on photo: U.S.S. Tacoma. Navy Yard N.Y. Dec 30 04.

        Written on mount: United States Cruiser Tacoma p. 288.

        Dates: December 30, 1904
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaA1
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: U.S.S. Tacoma in Tacoma harbor

        Written on verso: United States Cruiser Tacoma in harbor of Tacoma p. 288.

        Dates: Between 1903 and 1924
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaA2
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: Steamship Tacoma

        The epitome of Northwest inland steam vessels was reached in 1913 with the commissioning of the steel express steamer Tacoma for the Seattle-Tacoma route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. She was of 836 tons and driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine. On her first regular run in service between Seattle and Tacoma on June 24, the Tacoma covered the distance, dock to dock, in 77 minutes (pp. 219-220). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaB1-B2
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: Steamship Tacoma and ferries

        The epitome of Northwest inland steam vessels was reached in 1913 with the commissioning of the steel express steamer Tacoma for the Seattle-Tacoma route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. She was of 836 tons and driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine. On her first regular run in service between Seattle and Tacoma on June 24, the Tacoma covered the distance, dock to dock, in 77 minutes (pp. 219-220). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaB3
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: Lifeboats aboard the steamship Tacoma

        The epitome of Northwest inland steam vessels was reached in 1913 with the commissioning of the steel express steamer Tacoma for the Seattle-Tacoma route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. She was of 836 tons and driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine. On her first regular run in service between Seattle and Tacoma on June 24, the Tacoma covered the distance, dock to dock, in 77 minutes (pp. 219-220). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaB4
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: Steamship Tacoma

        The epitome of Northwest inland steam vessels was reached in 1913 with the commissioning of the steel express steamer Tacoma for the Seattle-Tacoma route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. She was of 836 tons and driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine. On her first regular run in service between Seattle and Tacoma on June 24, the Tacoma covered the distance, dock to dock, in 77 minutes (pp. 219-220). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaB5
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: Steamship Tacoma

        The epitome of Northwest inland steam vessels was reached in 1913 with the commissioning of the steel express steamer Tacoma for the Seattle-Tacoma route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. She was of 836 tons and driven by a four-cylinder triple-expansion engine. On her first regular run in service between Seattle and Tacoma on June 24, the Tacoma covered the distance, dock to dock, in 77 minutes (pp. 219-220). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Dates: Between 1913 and 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaB6
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma
      • Description: Steamship Tacoma

        Written on mount: SS Tacoma Hamburg American Line 1938.

        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item TacomaC1
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma

    • Tacoma Maru

      • Description: S.S. Tacoma Maru docked in Commencement Bay, Tacoma

        Written on verso: First O.S.K. [Osaka Shosen Kaisha] Boat landed at CM&PS [Chicago, Milwaukee, & Puget Sound Railway Co.] Oriental dock Tacoma. Sunday Aug 1, 1909 5 pm.

        Dates: August 1, 1909
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/5, Item TacomaMaru1
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma Maru
      • Description: Cargo from the S.S. Tacoma Maru in warehouse in Tacoma
        Dates: August 1, 1909
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/5, Item TacomaMaru2
        Location: T-Z / Tacoma Maru

    • Tamalpais

      • Description: Steam schooner Tamalpais being towed in Grays Harbor, Washington

        Written on verso: Steam schooner "Tamalpais" built in Hoquiam Wash. 1906. She is shown towing into Grays Harbor in waterlogged condition. She was repaired and operated until 1931 when she was broken up for scrap.

        Dates: Between 1906 and 1931
        Container: Box/Folder 3/1, Item Tamalpais1
        Location: T-Z / Tamalpais

    • Tanner

    • Tatoosh

      The Tatoosh was built by Moran Bros. Co. in Seattle in 1900 and was a 277-ton vessel. She had a distinguished career on North Pacific waters which was to include the saving of dozens of lives from the violence of the sea (p. 61). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • T.C. Power

      The T.C. Power was built by Moran Bros. Co. in 1897 for the North American Transportation & Trading Co. for service on the Yukon (p. 16 and p. 30). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • T.C. Reed

      The T.C. Reed was built in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1897 for service at Grays Harbor. She was sold in 1902 to Elliot and Pope for service on Puget Sound (p. 81). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Temple Bar

      The British tramp steamship Temple Bar, a 4,291-ton vessel owned by the Temple Steamship Co. of London, stranded on the Washington coast near La Push on April 8, 1939 while outward bound from Puget Sound with a cargo of scrap metal. Although the vessel became a total loss, most of the cargo was salvaged by the Morrison-Knudsen Co. of Boise, Idaho, which purchased the wreck from the underwriters (p. 475). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Tetas

      • Description: Bark Tetas

        Written on verso: St. Aux Barque "TETAS" U.S.N. circa 1890-1900. The "Tetas" Flag ship. My father served on sometime prior to his marriage in Sept. 1903.

        Dates: Between 1890 and 1900?
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/5, Item Tetas1
        Location: T-Z / Tetas

    • Thetis

    • Tilikum

      Capt. John C. Voss, one of the most colorful and adventurous of the old-time British Columbia mariners, became convinced that the Indian dugout canoe of the Pacific Northwest constituted the ideal small sea boat. He obtained a 50-year-old Nootka dugout in 1901, rebuilding it as a 38-foot, three-masted schooner. In this remarkable craft, which he named Tilikum, he sailed three quarters of the way around the world in somewhat over three years, calling at Suva, Sydney, N.S.W., Tasmania, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, and finally to Margate, England. The Tilikum was placed on display at the London Marine Exhibition of 1905. Capt. Voss left the Tilikum and returned to Victoria via Yokohama and for some time the gallant little vessel rotted away on the Thames tideflats. Before she was beyond repair, however, she was acquired by the noted British yachtsmen A.W.E. and A. Byford, who refitted her and returned her to Victoria by freighter. (pg. 331) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Tillicum

      • Description: Tug Tillicum
        Dates: Between 1901 and 1922
        Container: Box/Folder 3/2, Item Tillicum1
        Location: T-Z / Tillicum

    • Tillikum

      • Description: Ferry Tillikum
        Dates: Between 1959 and 1980?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/3, Item Tillikum1
        Location: T-Z / Tillikum

    • T.J. Potter

      The T.J. Potter was built prior to 1896 and was abandoned in 1921 (p. 5 and p. 329). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). The ship was rebuilt in 1901. She was condemned for passenger use in 1916, several years before she was abandoned.

    • Tonquin

    • Totem

      • Description: Totem
        Dates: Between 1900 and 1950?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/3, Item Totem1
        Location: T-Z / Totem

    • Tourist

      The old sternwheeler Skagit Chief, later the Port Orchard, went through another reincarnation in 1907, being rebuilt by Carlson Bros. at Port Blakely as the Tourist for the Navy Yard Route of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. The old house and machinery went into a new hull, Tourist being registered as a new vessel (p. 140). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Transocean

      • Description: Steam schooner Transocean

        Written on verso: Salmon Cannery Boat "Transocean."

        Dates: Between 1880 and 1930?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/3, Item Transocean1
        Location: T-Z / Transocean

    • Traveler

      Tug Traveler built 1886 in North Bend, Oregon, by John Kruse. This fine log tug was well known on Grays Harbor as a "bar tug" used for towing the sailing vessels across the Grays Harbor bar.

    • Triton

      The Triton was built at the Anderson Yard in Houghton for the Lake Washington service of the Anderson Steamboat Co. She was a 49-ton passenger steamer and 78 feet in length (p. 159). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Tyee

      The Tyee was built before 1896 and was sold in 1916 to the Port Blakely Mill Co. for use in connection with the shipbuilding activities of the Skinner & Eddy Corporation at Port Blakely (p. 6 and p. 263). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Steam tug Tyee
        Dates: Between 1884 and 1916?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/4, Item Tyee1
        Location: T-Z / Tyee
      • Description: Steam tug Tyee

        Written on mount: Fulton. Pt Townsend Wash.

        Dates: June 19, 1897
        Container: Box/Folder 3/4, Item Tyee2
        Location: T-Z / Tyee
      • Description: Steam tug Tyee

        Written on verso: Tug TYEE, 1899, Capt. J.B. Libby, owner.

        Dates: 1899
        Container: Box/Folder 3/4, Item Tyee3
        Location: T-Z / Tyee

    • Tyrrell

      The Tyrrell was built in 1898 by the Canadian Pacific Railroad at its yards in False Creek, Vancouver. She eventually saw service on the lower Yukon River (p. 28 and p. 31). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Union Flag

      The Union Fish Company of San Francisco, in 1905, built and sent north the launch Union Flag (7 net tons), equipped with a 40 h. p. Union engine, and she was the first power vessel to be utilized as a transporter between the Alaska shore stations...her headquarters being at the Pirate Cove station of Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands (p. 4). Notes from Pacific Motor Boat, Vol. 12, Issue 1, October 1919.

      • Description: Union Flag
        Dates: Between 1905 and 1930?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/4, Item UnionFlag1
        Location: T-Z / Union Flag

    • Utopia

      • Description: Steamship Utopia

        Written on verso: "Utopia" wood passenger. 123' 8" long, 24' 6" beam, 9' 1" hold. Gross 423, net 350. Built at Seattle 1893. Soon was put on the Vancouver Route. Engine second set 1908 Triple 10-16-26 x 16 meters 180 lbs. steam. Built for G.W. McGregor to succeed the "J.R. McDonald" on Seattle-Vancouver freight run. Rebuilt as passenger boat in 1898 and used for two years to S.E. and S.W. Alaska ports, with a trip to St. Michael included. In 1900, bought by La Connor Trading and Trans. Co. and placed on South Whatcom route with some service on Victoria run. Worn out by their successors, the Puget Sound Navigation Co. on the "straits" run and as spare boat. Burned for metal at Richmond Beach in 1929. Her engines went into the Vashona.

        Dates: Between 1893 and 1929
        Container: Box/Folder 3/4, Item Utopia1
        Location: T-Z / Utopia

    • Valencia

    • Vashon

      The Vashon was built in 1930 at Houghton for the Seattle-Vashon-Harper route of the Kitsap County Transportation Co. The main power plant of the , at that time the largest diesel ferry in operation oVashonn Puget Sound, was a 1,000-horsepower, eight-cylinder Washington diesel (p. 402). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Ferry Vashon
        Dates: Between 1930 and 1970?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/5, Item Vashon1
        Location: T-Z / Vashon

    • Verona

    • Victoria

      The Victoria was formerly the Parthia (p. 98). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Victorian

      The Victorian was built at Portland in 1891. She was 243 feet long and equipped with triple-expansion engines large enough to drive an ocean liner. She was built for Seattle-Victoria service. However, her wooden hull was too light for her engines and her career was a long series of mechanical breakdowns (p. 15). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Steamship Victorian

        Written on mount: S.S. Victorian, Union Steamship Co., 1897.

        Dates: 1897
        Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Item Victorian1
        Location: T-Z / Victorian

    • Vigilant

      • Description: Schooner Vigilant on the Chehalis River at Aberdeen, Washington

        Written on verso: Vigilant - Chehalis River - Aberdeen, Wash. Skipper Capt. Matt Peasley. The ship and skipper were the featured ones in "Cappy Ricks" articles that ran in Saturday Evening Post for many years.

        Dates: Between 1880 and 1930?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Item Vigilant1
        Location: T-Z / Vigilant

    • Vincennes

    • Virginia III

      • Description: Passenger ferry Virginia III

        Written on verso: Virginia III, wood Passenger. Gross 91 net 71 engines 92.8 x 19.4 x 5.5 1910 Tacoma. Built for Lorenz Bros. to serve the Tacoma-Henderson Bay route replacing the steam whaler "Tyconda." Original name was "Typhoon" the second of the name. About 1914 passed to West Pass Trans Co. for the Tacoma-Seattle-West Pass route and was re-named "Virginia III" at that time. In the 1920s Capt. Ed Lorenz again took over the boat for the South Ludlow and various routes. He re-named her again the "Narada." Laid up in Lake Union in the mid 1930s and finally taken over by Capt. Howard Parker who changed the name to "Salmon King" and used her in passenger ferry service from Keyport to Bremerton. Retired and laid up in Lake Union 1944.

        Dates: Between 1914 and 1927
        Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Item VirginiaIII1
        Location: T-Z / Virginia III

    • Virginia V

      • Description: Steamship Virginia V

        Written on verso: Virginia V. Gross 122 net 83 - 115.9 x 24.1 x 7.1 Wood - Passenger. Built 1922 in Olalla Wash. for West Passage Transportation Co - for Seattle-Tacoma-West Passage run, until 1936 - and seasonably thereafter until 1942 - then on Columbia River from Portland to Astoria route. Returned to Puget Sound 1944 - in March.

        Dates: Between 1922 and 1938?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Item VirginiaV1
        Location: T-Z / Virginia V
      • Description: Steamship Virginia V

        Written on verso: Virginia V. Wood - Passenger. Gross 122 new 83 - 115.9 x 24.1 x 7.1 - 1922 Olalla Wash. Built for West Pass Trasp. Co - Seattle-Tacoma-West Pass run. Until 1936 - and seasonably thereafter until 1942 - there on Columbia River for Portland-Astoria route. Returned to the Sound March 1944.

        Dates: Between 1922 and 1958?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Item VirginiaV2
        Location: T-Z / Virginia V

    • Volunteer

      • Description: Steam launch Volunteer at dock

        Written on verso: The "Volunteer" at the dock. The "Elk" in the distance.

        Dates: Between 1880 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/6, Item Volunteer1
        Location: T-Z / Volunteer

    • Wanderer

    • U.S.S. Washington

    • Washington of Kirkland

      • Description: Men aboard ferry Washington of Kirkland on Lake Washington
        Dates: Between 1908 and 1920?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/7, Item WashingtonofKirkland1
        Location: T-Z / Washington of Kirkland
      • Description: Ferry Washington of Kirkland
        Dates: Between 1908 and 1920?
        Container: Box folder:oversize SOS1/5, Item WashingtonofKirkland2
        Location: T-Z / Washington of Kirkland

    • Wasp

      The steam schooner Wasp was built before 1913 (p. 222). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • West Camargo

    • West Nilus

    • West Notus

    • West Seattle

    • Whitehorse

      The Whitehorse was built in 1901 by the British Yukon Navigation Co. at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, having a tonnage of 1,120 and dimensions of 171x36.3x5.6. She made her final voyage on the Yukon River in 1953 (p. 69 and p. 583). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • Wickersham

      • Description: Steamer MV Wickersham in Alaska

        Written on verso: State of Alaska M/V WICKERSHAM, 1,000+ passengers, 100+ vehicles, berths for 384.

        Dates: Between 1968 and 1974
        Container: Box/Folder 3/7, Item Wickersham1
        Location: T-Z / Wickersham

    • Willapa

      There were multiple ships named Willapa.

      • Description: Steamship Willapa in Juneau, Alaska

        Written on verso: WILLAPA at Juneau, Alaska, March 1897. (Orig. called GENERAL MILES.) Later renamed BELLINGHAM.

        Dates: March 1897
        Container: Box/Folder 3/8, Item WillapaA1
        Location: T-Z / Willapa
      • Description: Ferry Willapa
        Dates: Between 1940 and 1980?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/8, Item WillapaB1
        Location: T-Z / Willapa

    • Will H. Isom

      The Will H. Isom was built in 1901 at Ballard, Washington, for the North American Transportation & Trading Co. She was the largest towboat ever to operate on the Yukon, being 983 tons with dimensions of 183.8x36.5x5.6. She was fitted to carry passengers and freight, as well as to handle two or more large freight barges (pp 67-68). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Sternwheel steamboat Will H. Isom
        Dates: Between 1901 and 1903
        Container: Box/Folder 3/8, Item WillH.Isom1
        Location: T-Z / Will H. Isom
      • Description: Sternwheel steamboat Will H. Isom and crew in winter quarters at Stewart River, Yukon Territory

        Written on verso of item WillH.Isom2b: Winter Quarters - 1900-1901, Stewart River, Y.T.

        Dates: Between 1900 and 1901
        Container: Box/Folder 3/8, Item WillH.Isom2a-b
        Location: T-Z / Will H. Isom

    • William F. Monroe

      Sternwheeler Wm. F. Monroe was built at Seattle in 1883 for Capt. William F. Monroe, who operated her on the Seattle, Bellingham Bay and Nooksack River route, and later in the Snohomish and Skagit Rivers trade from Seattle. Converted to a towboat in 1894 and was wrecked at Sterling Bend on the Skagit River in 1896 (p. 7). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Steamboats Nellie and Wm. F. Monroe at dock

        Written on verso: Nellie & Wm. F. Monroe. Nellie built at Seattle 1876, 55.03 or 100 tons. Wm. F. Monroe built at Seattle 1883, 99.81 tons.

        Filed under Nellie subseries.

        Dates: Between 1883 and 1896
        Container: Box/Folder 2/9, Item Nellie1
        Location: T-Z / William F. Monroe

    • William H. Smith

      The Bath-built former wooden ship William H. Smith of 1883, having pursued a varied career for a full generation on the Pacific Coast as full-rigged ship, floating cannery, coal barge, five-masted schooner and, since 1932 as a fishing barge off Monterey, California, broke from her moorings April 14, 1933, and stranded on the beach, becoming a total loss. The 1,978-ton William H. Smith was generally referred to among Pacific Coast seamen as "Big Smit" and the 566-ton Hall-built schooner Wm. H. Smith as "Little Smith" (p. 425). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

      • Description: Schooner William H. Smith

        Written on verso: Ship Wm. H. Smith, floating cannery and cold storage plant.

        Dates: between 1911 and 1917
        Container: Box/Folder 3/8, Item WilliamH.Smith1
        Location: T-Z / William H. Smith

    • Willie

      • Description: Sternwheel steamboat Willie

        Written on verso: Willie. Built at Seattle 1883. 67' long 15' beam. 4 ½ hold. 55.94 tons. Ran out of Olympia.

        Dates: Between 1883 and 1905
        Container: Box/Folder 3/8, Item Willie1
        Location: T-Z / Willie

    • Wilson G. Hunt

    • Winema

      The Winema, a 125-foot sternwheeler with three decks but a draft of less than 25 inches, was launched on Klamath Lake in 1904 for the Klamath Lake Navigation Co. She provided freight and passenger service between Klamath Falls and towns and logging camps on the north and west shores of the lake (p. 106). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • U.S.S. Wisconsin

    • W.J. Patterson

      The W.J. Patterson was a four-masted schooner built by John Lindstrom at Aberdeen, Washington, in 1901. In 1918, she was sold and moved to Mobile, Alabama. She was scrapped in 1923 after being damaged in a storm (p. 299 and p. 344). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • W.K. Merwin

      The W.K. Merwin was a 108-foot sternwheeler of 230 tons. She was built at Seattle in 1883, laid up in 1894, and came out again in 1896 to try several sound and river routes, including the Olympia-Shelton and Skagit River runs, before going north. On January 19, 1897, in operation on the Skagit River, she collided with the half-open drawspan of the railway bridge at Mt. Vernon. All the upperworks to the smokestack were demolished, and the pilot house and texas reduced to kindling (p. 8 and p. 15). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

    • U.S.S. Wyoming

    • Yosemite

      • Description: Sidewheel steamship Yosemite in Gamble Bay, Washington

        Written on verso: Passenger boat Yosemite with excursion from Georgetown, Seattle. Entering Gamble Bay. Just about where picture of old Galiah was taken. This was a big boat and could make around 14 knots.

        Dates: Between 1906 and 1908
        Container: Box/Folder 3/9, Item Yosemite1
        Location: T-Z / Yosemite

    • Zephyr

      There were multiple ships named Zephyr.

    • Zinita

      • Description: British bark Zinita stranded on Copalis Beach, Washington

        The British bark Zinita, bound for Portland for wheat, went ashore November 8, 1896, five miles north of Grays Harbor, but was successfully refloated two weeks later (p. 7). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

        Written on verso: Scottish barque Zinita stranded near Copalis Beach, Wash. 1907. this fine steel sailing vessel was refloated and towed to Seattle where she was sold to Norwegian owners and renamed Sorknes[in 1910].

        Dates: 1896
        Container: Box/Folder 3/9, Item Zinita1
        Location: T-Z / Zinita

  • Unidentified Ships

    • Description: Ship at dock with pulleys loading or unloading cargo
      Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
      Container: Box/Folder 3/10, Item UNS1
      Location: Unidentified Ships
    • Description: Lounge room of ship interior

      Possibly interior of the City of Seattle.

      Dates: Between 1890 and 1946?
      Container: Box/Folder 3/10, Item UNS2
      Location: Unidentified Ships

    • Small boats

      • Description: Man standing in dinghy aboard larger ship

        Other covered dinghy visible, named Port Townsend

        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/11, Item UNSB1
        Location: Unidentified Ships / Small boats
      • Description: Small boat tied up along shore
        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/11, Item UNSB2
        Location: Unidentified Ships / Small boats
      • Description: Man sitting in riverboat tied up at dock
        Dates: Between 1870 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/11, Item UNSB3
        Location: Unidentified Ships / Small boats
      • Description: Propeller launch at a small dock, on probably Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

        "Schley" is pencilled on verso, but is misidentified, possibly because the hull looks similar to the Schley..

        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/11, Item UNSB3
        Location: Unidentified Ships / Small boats

    • Sailing ships

      • Description: One-masted sailboat in water with men and women aboard

        Written on verso: Leary - Grand Trunk Dock. Scott Calhoun, Alaskan Bldg. Stanley Griffiths - Bert Griffiths, Globe Bldg. Capt. Jas. Griffiths.

        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/12, Item UNSAIL1
        Location: Unidentified Ships / Sailing ships
      • Description: Bow of sailing ship in water with sails raised
        Dates: Between 1890 and 1940?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/12, Item UNSAIL2
        Location: Unidentified Ships / Sailing ships

    • 3-masted Sailing Ships

    • 4-masted Sailing Ships

    • 5-masted Sailing Ships

    • 6-masted Sailing Ships

      • Description: A coal-carrying cargo ship, or collier, with raised sails in water

        Written on verso: One of the two sister ships - Colliers - largest sailers now under sail.

        Dates: Between 1900 and 1925?
        Container: Box/Folder 3/16, Item UNSIX1
        Location: Unidentified Ships / 6-masted Sailing Ships

    • Steamboats & Steamships


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