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It is located due east of Steamboat Island near the Totten Inlet. The park consists of 106 acres (43 ha) of old-growth forest and salt marsh with a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) beach on Puget Sound. [4] Park activities include picnicking, camping, hiking, fishing, clamming, beachcombing, and birdwatching.
J.J. Hansen had two sons who joined him in the steamboat business, Captains Henry A. Hansen and Ole L. Hansen (1875–1940), as well as a son-in-law, Capt. Alf Hostmark. The business was formally organized in 1898, but started earlier. [1]
City of Olympia: 127272 prop tug 1898 Olympia 56 17.1 51 29 C-G, R [R 25] City of Quincy: 125701 stern psgr 1878 Portland 109 33.2 195 1900 D City of Renton [R 26] 127044 prop tug 1894 Seattle 40 12.2 18 16 1920 A City of Sacramento [R 27] 107848 prop ferry 1903 Philadelphia 297 90.5 1950 L City of Seattle: 126536 side ferry 1888 Portland 122 ...
Fairy (steamboat) Ferries and steamboats of Lake Crescent, Washington; Fidalgo (sternwheeler) Fleetwood (steamboat) Florence J. Florence K (steamboat) Flyer (steamboat) Fortuna (steamboat) Forty-Nine (steamboat)
Another early steamboat on Lake Washington was the clipper-bowed yacht-like Cyrene, built in 1891. [3] and the C.C. Calkins. In 1893, Hattie Hansen, later to have a tragic end off Vancouver Island was built at the Lee shipyard.
Puget Sound and the many adjacent waterways, inlets, and bays form a natural transportation route for much of the western part of Washington. For navigation purposes, Puget Sound was sometimes divided into the "upper Sound" referring to the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows, and the lower sound, referring to the waters from the Tacoma Narrows north to Admiralty Inlet.
Founded in 1909, Steamboat Island was named by local settlers who thought the island resembled a steamboat. [3] The peninsula and island is contained within the Griffin School District and is served by the Griffin Fire Department #13 [4] and is also known locally as the "Griffin area" of Thurston County, Washington.
City of Shelton ran on the Olympia-Shelton run until 1907, when the Shelton Transportation Co. replaced her with S.G. Simpson. City of Shelton's last skipper on the regular route was Capt. Ed Gustafson, who with mate Ole Gustafson and engineer John Lesli took over the new sternwheeler S.G. Simpson.