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Capital City (sternwheeler)

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Capital City in 1904. (Asahel Curtis photograph)
History
NameCapital City
OwnerCanadian Pacific Railway
RoutePuget Sound
BuilderE.G. Rathbown
Completed1898, Port Blakely
Out of service1919
IdentificationUS registry #157507
FateBroken up in 1919.
General characteristics
Tonnage522.8 gross; 348.2 registered
Length150.2 ft (45.8 m)
Beam32 ft (9.8 m)
Depth7 ft (2.1 m) depth of hold
Installed powertwin steam engines, horizontally mounted
Propulsionsternwheel

Capital City was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. The vessel was originally named Dalton.

Career

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Steam ship Capital City (right) stuck in ice, January 1907

Capital City was built in 1898 at Port Blakely at the Hall Brothers shipyard. This vessel was originally owned by Canadian Pacific Ry. and was acquired by White Pass in 1901, but was not used under White Pass ownership. The vessel was sold to S. Willey Steamship & Navigation Co. and renamed Capital City in 1901. The vessel was resold to McDonald Steamship Co. in 1903, resold to Olympia-Tacoma Navigation Co. in 1904, and resold again to Dallas, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co. in 1906. Broken up in 1919. The vessel was originally named for John "Jack" Dalton (1856–1944), an Alaskan packer.

References

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  • Affleck, Edwin L, ed. A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000) ISBN 0-920034-08-X
  • Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6