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S.G. Simpson (sternwheeler)
The steamboat ''S.G.Simpson'' operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. This vessel was later renamed ''E.G. English''. Construction ''S.G. Simpson'' was designed by Capt. Ed Gustafson and built in 1907 at Tacoma, Washington by the shipyard of Crawford and Reid for the Shelton Transportation Company, to replace ''City of Shelton'' on the Olympia-Shelton route. She was a sternwheeler, 115.2 feet long, 26.3' on the beam, with 6.1' depth of hold, and rated at 190 tons. ''S.G. Simpson'' was named after Solomon Grout Simpson, a prominent man in the logging business in Shelton and Mason County. ''S.G. Simpson'' was launched into the water not fully complete, as some sternwheelers, such as ''Bailey Gatzert'' had been, but with only her hull completed, with her upper works and paddlewheel added later. ''S.G. Simpson'' made on her trial run. (showing photographs of launching of ''S.G. Simpson'', trial run, and at Olympia's Percival Dock with the stern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelton Transportation Company
Shelton may refer to: Places United Kingdom *Shelton, North Bedfordshire, in the parish of Dean and Shelton, Bedfordshire *Lower Shelton, in the parish of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire *Upper Shelton, in the parish of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire * Shelton, Norfolk *Shelton, Nottinghamshire *Shelton, Shropshire *Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire United States *Shelton, Connecticut *Shelton, Washington People Surname General * Alfred Shelton (1865–1923), English international footballer * Anne Shelton (courtier) (1475–1555), aunt of Anne Boleyn and mother of Henry VIII's mistress, Mary Shelton; wife of Sir John Shelton * George M. Shelton (1877–1949), Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipient * Herbert M. Shelton (1895–1985), Prominent American health educator, pacifist, vegetarian, and advocate of raw foodism and fasting cures * Hugh Shelton (born 1942), retired US Army four-star general and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff * Ian Shelton (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foss Maritime
Foss Maritime (formerly Foss Launch and Tug Company), is an American tugging company. The company was founded in 1889 by Thea Foss (1857–1927) and her husband Andrew Foss. The company is now the largest tug and towing concern on the west coast of the United States. On July 2, 2013, Foss Marine Holdings announced that (effective at that date) it would merge all of its operations and resources under a single name: 'Foss Maritime Company'. Founding and early years The Foss concern began in 1889 with a single rowboat which Thea Foss rented by the day in Tacoma while her husband Andrew, a builder, was working on a construction project. At the end of the building, the Fosses realized that Thea's boat had made them more money than Andrew's carpentry. They acquired more boats and soon began operating larger vessels, branching out into sailboats, naptha launches, gasoline-engined vessels, and scows and barges. By 1916 Foss Launch and Tug Company bought Captain O.G. Olson's Tacoma towi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawford And Reid (shipbuilders)
The firm of Crawford and Reid was a ship building company that had a shipyard at Tacoma, Washington Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, and northwest of Mount ... in the first half of the 1900s. Vessels constructed by the yard included the passenger steamships ''Daring'', ''Dix'', ''Monticello '', the sternwheeler ''S.G. Simpson'', and the steam tugs ''Echo'' and . See also * :Ships built by Crawford and Reid References * Newell, Gordon, ed, 1966, ''H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing Defunct companies based in Tacoma, Washington Shipbuilding in Washington (state) Steamboats of Washington (state) Defunct shipbuilding companies of the United States {{US-shipping-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma ( ) is the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, Washington, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The city's population was 219,346 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the List of municipalities in Washington, third-largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, called wikt:Tacoma, təˡqʷuʔbəʔ in the Lushootseed, Puget Sound Salish dialect. It is locally known as the "City of Destiny" because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma's neighboring deep-wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Shelton (sternwheeler)
The steamboat ''City of Shelton'' operated in the 1890s and early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', at 140 and 214, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966 Construction ''City of Shelton'' was built in 1895 at Shelton, Washington, to replace ''Willie'' on the Olympia-Shelton route. She was 99.8 feet long, 20.5 on the beam, with 6' depth of hold, and rated at 190 tons. ''City of Shelton'' was one of the few vessels built on the Sound at that time because an economic depression had driven down business.Newell, Gordon R., ''Ships of the Inland Sea'', at 124-125, 145, 152-54, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960) Operations One of her competitors was ''Marion'', a small propeller-driven steamboat with an award-winning triple expansion engine. ''Marions crew derisively named ''City of Shelton'' "Old Wet-Butt" after the spray thrown up on her deck by her unguarded sternwheel. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympia, WA
Olympia is the capital city, capital of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County, Washington, Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. European settlers claimed the area in 1846, with the Treaty of Medicine Creek initiated in 1854, followed by the Treaty of Olympia in 1856. Olympia was incorporated as a town on January 28, 1859, and as a city in 1882. It had a population of 55,605 at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the state's List of municipalities in Washington, 23rd-largest city. Olympia borders Lacey, Washington, Lacey to the east and Tumwater, Washington, Tumwater to the south. History The site of Olympia had been home to Lushootseed-speaking peoples known as the Steh-Chass (or Stehchass, later part of the post-treaty Squaxin Island Tribe) for thousands of years. Other Native Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelton, WA
Shelton is a city in, and the county seat of, Mason County, Washington, United States. Shelton is the westernmost city on Puget Sound. The population was 10,371 at the 2020 census. Shelton has a council–manager form of government and was the last city in Washington to use a mayor–commission form of government. History Shelton was officially incorporated in 1890. The city was named after David Shelton, a delegate to the territorial legislature. The land was previously called "Cota" and was inhabited and managed by the Squaxin Island Tribe, or "People of the Waters", who had inhabited the land for centuries before contact with white settlers. The land was ceded, along with 4,000 sq. miles of Indigenous land, on December 26, 1854, with the passage of the Treaty of Medicine Creek. After the passage of the treaty, David Shelton and his wife, Frances Shelton, each took a claim of land enabled by the Donation Land Claim Act totaling 640 acres in what would eventually be incorpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mason County, WA
Mason County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,726. The county seat and only incorporated city is Shelton. The county was formed out of Thurston County on March 13, 1854. Originally named Sawamish County, it took its present name in 1864 in honor of Charles H. Mason, the first Secretary of Washington Territory. Mason County comprises the Shelton, WA Micropolitan Statistical Area and is included in the Seattle- Tacoma, WA Combined Statistical Area. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (8.7%) is water. Geographic features *Brown Cove *Case Inlet *Hammersley Inlet * Harstine Island *Hood Canal *Lake Cushman *Mason Lake *Olympic Mountains *Puget Sound *Squaxin Island *Totten Inlet Oakland Bay Major highways * U.S. Route 101, U.S. 101 * Washington State Route 3, SR 3 * Washington State Route 108, SR 108 * Washington State Route 106, SR 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bailey Gatzert (sternwheeler)
The ''Bailey Gatzert'' was a famous sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Columbia River and Puget Sound from the 1890s to the 1920s. This vessel was considered one of the finest of its time. It was named after Bailey Gatzert, an early businessman and mayor of Seattle, who was one of the closest friends and business associates of John Leary – the person who financed the ship. ''Bailey Gatzert'' probably carried more passengers than any other Columbia River steamer. It was considered to be one of the most beautiful river boats, mainly because its upper deck ran all the way out to the bow. Ownership and cost ''Bailey Gatzert'' was built for John Leary (1837–1905). The steamer was reported to have cost $100,000 to construct. According to another report, the ''Bailey Gatzert'' was built for the Seattle Steam Navigation & Transportation Company, which had been incorporated in Seattle on May 31, 1890, with a capital stock of $500,000, by John Leary, Jacob Furth, Edward Newfled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skookum Chief
Skookum is a Chinook Jargon word that has historical use in the Pacific Northwest. It has a range of meanings, commonly associated with an English translation of "strong" or "monstrous". The word can mean "strong", "greatest", "powerful", "ultimate", or "brave". Something can be ''skookum'', meaning "strong" or "monstrously significant". When used in reference to another person, ''e.g.'', "he's skookum", it conveys connotations of reliability or a monstrous nature, as well as strength, size or hard-working. Derivative words ''Skookum house'' means 'jail' or 'prison' (cf. the English euphemism ''the big house'', but here meaning 'strong house'). ''Skookum tumtum'', lit. "strong heart", is generally translated as 'brave' or possibly 'good-hearted'. In the Chinook language, ''skookum'' is a verb auxiliary, used similarly to ''can'' or ''to be able''. Another compound, though fallen out of use in modern British Columbia English, is ''skookum lacasset'' or 'strongbox'. ''Skookumchuck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammersley Inlet
Hammersley Inlet, in southwestern Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington, is an arm of water leading to Shelton, Washington and Oakland Bay. Hammersley Inlet is also known as Big Skookum. Description Hammersley Inlet connects the Oakland Bay and Shelton to the greater Puget Sound. It is approximately of winding, potentially rapidly flowing water. As tides change in the South Puget Sound, Hammersley Inlet is the only artery through which all water must flow between the Oakland Bay and the greater Puget Sound. As tides change, they force the water through narrow, winding, shallow, Hammersley, producing erratic currents up to . Many mariners avoid Hammersley because of these conditions, but with the proper planning, a depth sounder, and care, Hammersley can be navigated without incident. The NOAA chart for the inlet is #18457, but most locals rely on the placemats from the Shelton Yacht Club. There are few aids to navigation on Hammersley, as the many log booms towed through th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
