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Alaska
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Puget
Sound paddle steamer George E Starr was operating in Alaska for a
number of years during the Gold Rush period which included the year 1900 although remaining registered at Port Washington WA
George E Starr (1879-1921)
85610
Built in 1879 at seattle WA
Wood 148.2 x 28 ft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Starr
Seattle, Washington
Yosemite (1906-1909)
Built
in 1862 by John Gunder North at San Francisco (CA, USA) for the
California Steam Navigation Co's services on the Sacramento River
252 ft long, extended to 282 ft when rebuilt in 1865 after a boiler explosion which killed 55 people : 1525 GT
Wooden hull. Walking beam engine 57 in x 122 in
Laid-up at Oakland CA from 1879 to 1883
Bought by the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co in 1883
Sold in 1906 to the Puget Sound Excursion Co and based at Seattle USA
Sold in 1909 to CD Hillman a real estate entrepreneur
Wrecked at Port Orchard Narrows on 9th July 1909
Above
: Yosemite in 1908 on a trip to view the arrival in Puget Sound of the
Great White Fleet of US warships which had circumnavigated the globe.
The ship had been chartered for the students of the University of
Washington
Tacoma, Washington
North Pacific
18685
Built in 1871 at San Francisco CA
Wood 166.8 x 29 ft 488 GT
From 1898 she was recruited to provide a service to Skagway Alaska for the transportation of gold prospectors
Wrecked in 1903 off Port Townsend in 1903
Portland, Oregon
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Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
TJ Potter (1888-1921)
145489
Built in 1988 at Portland OR
Wood 233.7 x 35.6 ft 1017 GT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._J._Potter
San Francisco, California
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San Rafael (1877-1901)
115556
Built in 1877 at San Francisco CA
Wood 203.5 x 32 ft 692 GT
Registered in 1900 as a ferry as in 1900 it was on the San Francisco to Sausalito run
The ship was sunk in a collision with the bay ferry Sausalito with the loss of five passenger lives.
Saidie (1898)
116831
Built in 1898 at San Francisco CA
Steel 150 x 30 ft 276 GT
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.San Francisco Bay Ferries
San
Francisco had numerous point-to-point ferries crossing the Bay, many of
which were paddle steamers. Such vessels continued to be built well
into the twentieth century, the largest of which were designed to carry
railway engines and carriages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferries_of_San_Francisco_Bay
Ferries built as passenger steamers and later converted
Oakland (1860 ex- Chrysopolis, converted in 1875)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopolis_(sidewheeler)
Ocean Wave (1891, converted in 1900)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Wave_%28sidewheeler%29
Notable paddle steamers built as ferries
Ukiak (later Eureka, now preserved at San Francisco) https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/eureka.htm
Solano (1879-1930) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solano_(ferry) and http://cprr.org/Museum/Solano/
Contra Costa (1914-1930), the largest ferry built at that date
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