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In 1911, the Anderson Steamboat Company offered a "beautiful 25-mile cruise around Mercer Island for 25-cents." The other advertised routes and departures were: Fortuna left Madison Park eight times daily for Kirkland and Juanita; Aquilo left Madison Park seven times daily for Houghton and the "Bay Route";
She was 106.9 feet in length overall, and rated at 81 tons. The vessel is reported to have been acquired by Anderson Steamboat Company at a cost $31,500 in December 1906. [1] Fortuna was built for Captain John Anderson to join his fleet of steamboats on Lake Washington, operating under the name of the Anderson Steamboat Company. Anderson at ...
Mercer Island is located closer to Bellevue than it is to Seattle, and is therefore often considered to be part of King County's Eastside. The population was 25,748 at the 2020 census. [4] Mercer Island is one of the 100 richest ZIP codes in the US according to the IRS figures for Adjusted Gross Income. [7]
Lummi Island: 89 27.1 139 89 [? 2] 1895 A Annie Jane: 107240 prop tug 1896 Seattle 44 13.4 17 6.0 1901 O Annie Stewart: 1218 stern psgr 1864 San Francisco 155 47.2 316 1881 T-OR Aquilo: 107697 prop yacht 1901 Boston, MA: 127 38.7 176 103 1950 O Aquilo: 206214 prop psgr 1909 Houghton 80 24.4 48 33 1940 A Arcadia: prop 1889 Arcadia 40 1891 O
By November 1915, however, Anderson Steamboat Company had substituted Dawn on the route and the permit was cancelled. [7] Triton was also used for holiday and special excursions. On July 4, 1915, she sailed from the Anderson Steamboat Company dock at Leschi Park for a circumnavigation of Mercer Island.
The boiler from the John Evenson steam tug now lies on the bottom of Lake Michigan. The 54-foot steam tug sank on June 5, 1895, and was finally discovered by two Wisconsin maritime historians on ...
The ship was refloated, repaired, and was on her regular run to Mercer Island by April 1924. [28] In July 1934, a strike by maritime workers in Seattle, caused a shortage of fuel oil. Instead of her normal 11 daily roundtrips between Leschi Park and Mercer Island, Dawn was restricted to only four. [29] Full service was not restored for eleven ...
C.C. Calkins was named after Charles C. Calkins, a Seattle businessman who was involved in real estate development projects around Leschi Park and Mercer Island. Calkins, doing business as Lake Washington Land & Improvement Co., built a hotel on Mercer Island, which he named the "C.C. Calkins." He invested about $30,000 in the hotel and about ...