物語
This freighter was built in 1896 by Bendixsen, Hans D. in Eureka, CA.
歴史的注記
This vessel was registered at Eureka California. This vessel was laid down as a lumber carrier but completed as a passenger freight steamer.
In 1902 this vessel was operating from the Lynn Canal AK carrying gold from large commercial mines. This vessel went ashore on Mouat Point, North Pender Island on September 29, 1908 while enroute from Seattle to Skagway in a dense fog. A radio call brought the steamer Edith (Captain Thomas A. Miller) responded and they removed all the passengers. The bow was crumpled back 4 feet this vessel was refloated by J.E. Pharo's Puget Sound salvage steamer Santa Cruz and following repairs resumed Alaska service.
In 1909 this vessel was one of the steamers responding to the wreck of the Ohio. This vessel was salvaged by the tug Salvor.
In 1927-1932 this vessel was operated on the San Francisco and Los Angeles route. On August 08, 1935 this vessel sank.
所有者と船長
In 1896-1891 she was owned by Max Kalish, Eureka CA USA.
In 1897 she was chartered by Mayor W.D. Wood to travel to Alaska to enter the Alaska steamship and mining business and travelled to St. Michael AK.
She was later chartered to John A. McGee Jr. for $28,000 per month. Kalish was able to re-coop the cost of building during the five month charter term. McGee and his associates went bankrupt and the vessel was taken over by Johnson-Locke Mercantile Co. which also operated schooners on the Puget Sound to southeastern Alaska route.
In 1899 she was taken over by the Humboldt Steamship Co. which operated her in opposition to other vessels operated by Max Kalish.
In 1901 the Alaska Steamship Co. chartered the vessel while it looked for other vessels to add to its southeastern Alaska service.
In 1904 she was taken over and chartered to the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. in 1904.
In 1919-1927 she was owned by the White Flyer Line operating between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In 1926-1927 she was owned by J.K. Nelson, San Francisco CA.
In 1927 she was owned by the Los Angeles - San Francisco Navigation Co.
船長
Captain Samuel Bonnifield (1896); Captain Elijah G. Baughman (1900-1908); Captain E.G. Baughman (1911);
参考文献
- H.W. McCurdie
- Brown, Giles T. (1966) Ships That Sail No More. Univ. Kentucky Press
- Merchant Vessels of the United States (1910)
- Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927
- www.boem.gov ↗ (website viewed 24/04/2024)
