File:Steamer ATHLON on Navy Yard Route at Colman Dock in Seattle, ca 1912 (TRANSPORT 858).jpg

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English: Steamer ATHLON on Navy Yard Route at Colman Dock in Seattle, ca. 1912   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Steamer ATHLON on Navy Yard Route at Colman Dock in Seattle, ca. 1912
Description
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PH Coll 794.9

Built by J.H. Johnston in Portland and sold March 27, 1901 to H.B. Kennedy of the Puget Sound Navigation Company. Contract price was $4,935. Length 112.4' Beam 19.7' Depth 7' Gross tonnage 157 Net tonnage 104. ATHLON operated on the Port Orchard - Seattle and Bremerton Navy Yard - Seattle route until 1914.

1914: ATHLON operated by the Liberty Bay Transportation Co., an independent service competing on the Poulsbo - Seattle run.

August 1, 1921: Puget Sound steamer ATHLON, operated by the Poulsbo Transportation Co. and in charge of Capt. Roy McMasters, struck Ludlow Rocks at the entrance to Port Ludlow in heavy fog. Ship total loss, 9 passengers and crew safely reached shore.

1923: Kitsap County Transportation Co. bought machinery from wrecked ATHLON. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966)

  • Subjects (LCSH): Athlon (Ship); Ships--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle
"on Navy Yard Route" means on the run between Downtown Seattle and the Navy Yard at Bremerton on the Kitsap Peninsula. This is still a Washington State Ferries route from the current Colman Dock over a century later.
Depicted place Seattle
Date circa 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: nitrate negative
Dimensions height: 5.7 in (14.6 cm); width: 3.5 in (88.9 mm)
dimensions QS:P2048,5.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,3.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
858
Source
English: Transportation Photographs Collection
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