Puget Sound Navigation Company steamer KULSHAN, probably in Seattle, ca 1912 (TRANSPORT 901)

PH Coll 794.59
In 1910 the Moran Co. of Seattle completed a first-class steel screw steamer, the KULSHAN, for the Seattle-Bellingham route service of the Puget Sound Navigation Co., replacing the WHATCOM. Of 926 tons, with dimensions of 160.3x32x20.7, the KULSHAN was equipped with a triple-expansion engine (1,100 hp) (17, 28, 47.5x36) with steam at 225 pounds working pressure from two oil-fired wawter tube boilers. Her average speed in sea trials was 14.32 knots. She was a source of pride for Puget Sound residents because she was practically a 100% local product, much of the steel for her construction having been rolled at the Irondale mill near Port Townsend. In late October of 1938 the Puget Sound Navigation Co. sold five of its steamers, including the KULSHAN, to the Seattle Iron & Metals Corp. where it was scrapped. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.)
Subjects (LCSH): Kulshan (Ship); Ships--Washington (State)--Seattle