| Summary: | PH Coll 376.36g Built at Wilmington, Delaware in 1871 as an iron steam cutter (p.121), operated as a revenue cutter in the North Pacific and Bering Sea patrol in 1896. Upon disbanding of the U.S.R.C,, she was assigned to Puget Sound (p. 10), refitted in receive wireless messages while berthed in Tacoma (p. 87). Last offical government duty was to transport bodies from the Valencia accident from Neah Bay to Seattle for burial. Sold from government service in 1906 to A.A. Cragen and then to the San Juan Fishing and Packing Co. who rebuilt her as a dory halibut fishing steamer (p. 121), wrecked in 1911 on the rocks of Banks Island (p. 195). Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966). To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction/reproduction Please cite the Order Number
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