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to be used to tow loads from Puget Sound to Alaska. In 1924 the vessel was equipped with wireless. In 1930 or 1931, the vessel was taken out of service. In 1940 Bellingham Tug and Barge
Company sold the vessel to the Metal Conservation Corporation, a Seattle firm. The plan was to install a diesel
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s master, believing the vessel to be in immediate danger of sinking, had attempted to launch three lifeboats mostly occupied by women and children. However, when the boats were lowered into the water, they either overturned in the waves or were battered into the ship's sides, and 54 people were
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rolled over and sank quickly at about 1:15 a.m. The tugs then went to rescue the people in the water, saving most or all of the 36 who had remained aboard. Capt. Edward D. Hickman (1876–1928), then serving as mate on
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engine in the hull and relocate the upper works to make room for materials to be salvaged from wrecks in Alaska waters. This never came through, and the hull was abandoned in
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shipyard in
Seattle. After a difficult voyage, the tugs were able to get 11 of the sternwheelers in tow to St. Michael, where one was wrecked shortly after arrival.
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and other areas of the northwest
Pacific coast until 1935. The vessel was considered to be one of the most powerful tugs of its time.
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was owned by the
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was among the first seagoing tugs to be built on Puget Sound. The vessel was constructed by shipbuilders
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to be used for ship construction then being engaged in at Port
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and was named after the manager of the
Seabeck lumber mill. In 1891,
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stripped and converted to a fuel barge, and the small schooner
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Lewis & Dryden's Marine history of the
Pacific Northwest
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were able to make it back to Puget Sound, where the
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781:Propeller-driven steamboats of Washington (state)
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298:Moran sternwheelers to Alaska
439:Skinner and Eddy Corporation
344:Puget Sound Tug Boat Company
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308:In the spring of 1898,
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159:and William McCurdy at
93:General characteristics
31:on the Nushagaak River.
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185:Attempted salvage of
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304:Moran sternwheelers
244:St. Michael, Alaska
161:Seabeck, Washington
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253:W.K. Merwin
142:Puget Sound
79:Seabeck, WA
56:Puget Sound
786:Steam tugs
771:1877 ships
765:Categories
535:References
452:Lake Union
216:Kilbrannan
212:Kilbrannan
203:Kilbrannan
187:Kilbrannan
122:Propulsion
750:Thea Foss
125:Propeller
101:Steam tug
74:Completed
690:Portland
639:Duwamish
510:Newell,
458:See also
387:Sea Lion
357:killed.
354:Clallam'
328:disaster
743:Persons
712:Wallowa
683:Rabboni
445:to the
443:Holyoke
431:Holyoke
414:Clallam
410:Holyoke
406:Clallam
402:Holyoke
398:Holyoke
394:Clallam
374:Clallam
370:Clallam
366:Holyoke
362:Clallam
349:Clallam
326:Clallam
208:Holyoke
179:Holyoke
173:Holyoke
165:Holyoke
37:History
692:(1875)
676:Hector
670:(1907)
668:Goliah
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270:Merwin
238:, the
148:Career
106:Length
77:1877,
64:Alaska
722:Firms
617:Alice
470:Notes
408:drag
52:Route
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705:Ruth
646:Echo
609:Tugs
380:and
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280:and
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85:Fate
42:Name
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