''Cyrus Walker'' was a sidewheel tug active in
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected m ...
in the second half of the 19th century.
Career
Domingo Marcucci Domingo Marcucci Jugo (Maracaibo, 1827 - San Francisco, 1905), was a Venezuelan born 49er, shipbuilder and shipowner in San Francisco, California. He owned or captained some of the many steamships, steamboats, ferries, and sailing ships he built a ...
built the ''Cyrus Walker'' at
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
at his
Steamboat Point shipyard in 1864, for
Pope & Talbot
Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California. Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from East Machias, Maine. Pope & Talbot lumber compa ...
. She was 120 foot long side-wheel steamboat, with a 28-foot beam and an 8-foot hold. She was equipped with two high-pressure steam engines and a
surface condenser
A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations. These condensers are heat exchangers which convert steam from its gaseous to its liquid state ...
. George W Bullene, who put machinery in her at the Pacific Iron Works, then took her up to Puget Sound for towing logs for the Pope & Talbot lumber mill on Puget Sound.
[ Scott, Erving M. and Others, ''Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II'', Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, pp.127-129]
from quod.lib.umich.edu accessed March 10, 2015
Captain Bullene delivered ''Cyrus Walker'' to
Port Gamble
Port Gamble is an unincorporated community on the northwestern shore of the Kitsap Peninsula in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is also a small, eponymous bay, along which the community lies, near the entrance to Hood Canal. The uninco ...
, Puget Sound in October, 1864. It was active at least as late as 1893.
Harvey Kimball Hines, An Illustrated History of the State of Washington: Containing Biographical Mention of Its Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, Lewis publishing Company, Chicago, 1893, p.762
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References
* Affleck, Edwin L, ed. ''A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska'', Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000)
1864 ships
Steam tugs
Steam tugs of Washington (state)
Steamboats of Washington (state)
Sidewheel steamboats of Washington (state)
Passenger ships of the United States
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