Triumph (sternwheeler)

(above)Triumph (small steamer in center) at Bellingham. (below) Triumph on the Nooksack River near Lynden, 1889.
History
Name	Triumph
Completed	1889[1] or 1892[2]
General characteristics
Type	inland steamboat
Tonnage	66.97 regist.[1]
Installed power	twin steam engines, horizontally mounted.
Propulsion	sternwheeler

Triumph was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Nooksack River in Whatcom County, Washington in the 1890s.

Career[]

Triumph is reported to have been built by Capt. Simon P. Randolph (d.1909 at Seattle), either 1889 at Lynden, WA^[1] or in 1892 at Whatcom. Randolph, who received his master's license in 1871, had been the first man to operate a steamboat on Lake Washington, had commanded or owned a number of smaller sternwheelers over his career including , Old Settler, Comet, and the .^[1] His son, Capt. Preston Brooks Randolph (1860–1939), was also involved in ownership and management of the later boats, including Triumph.^[2]

Triumph was served on the Nooksack River, which the Randolphs had developed as a steamboat route. In 1897, Triumph was destroyed by fire near the town of , in Whatcom County.^[2]

Notes[]

References[]

• Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
• Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (2nd Ed. 1960)
• Newell, Gordon R., Pacific Steamboats, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1958)
• Wright, E.W., Lewis & Dryden's Marine history of the Pacific Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR (1895)

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