Clara Brown (steamboat)
Clara Brown under way.
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History | |
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Name | Clara Brown |
Owner | ; Hunt Bros. |
Route | Puget Sound |
Builder | |
Completed | 1886 |
Out of service | 1907 (or 1930) |
Identification | US registry 126378 |
Fate | Abandoned on beach in West Seattle. |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 190.93 gross, 111.86 registered |
Length | 99.8 ft (30.4 m) |
Beam | 22.1 ft (6.7 m) |
Depth | 4.1 ft (1.2 m) depth of hold |
Installed power | steam engines |
Propulsion | sternwheel |
Clara Brown was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet which operated from the late 1880s to the early 1900s, and possibly as late as 1930.
Career[]
Clara Brown was built in 1886 by Hiram Doncaster, for Capt. Thomas Brown, the owner of the . The vessel was named for Captain Brown's daughter. The vessel was placed in service on the Henderson Bay route in south Puget Sound and surrounding areas, serving communities such as Olympia, , Shelton, Steilacoom, Tacoma, and Seattle. The vessel became famous as the first one to reach Seattle with relief supplies after the great Seattle file in June 1889.
References[]
- Affleck, Edwin L, ed. A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000) ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6
Categories:
- 1886 ships
- Steamboats of Washington (state)
- Passenger ships of the United States
- Sternwheelers of Washington (state)
- Individual ship or boat stubs