Dode (steamboat)
Dode wrecked 1910.
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History | |
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Name | Dode |
In service | 1898 |
Identification | US registry #81534[1] |
Fate | 1910 Sunk in Hood Canal[2] |
General characteristics | |
Type | inland steamboat |
Tonnage | 215 gross; 135 regist.[1] |
Length | 98.8 ft (30.11 m)[3][1] |
Beam | 21.6 ft (6.58 m)[1] |
Depth | 7.9 ft (2.41 m) depth of hold[1] |
Installed power | steam engine 135 indicated horsepower[1] |
Crew | twelve (12)[1] |
Dode was a steamboat that ran on Hood Canal and Puget Sound from 1898 to 1900.
Construction
Dode was originally the
In 1898, following return from Alaska, the Bryant was rebuilt into a propeller steamer for Capt Dan Troutman's Hood Canal service. The rebuilt vessel was named Dode after his nickname for his wife, Dora Wells Troutman, who was also a licensed captain.[4] The Troutmans owned a farm at the small Hood Canal town of Lilliwaup.[4] Captain Dan Troutman is reported to have mysteriously disappeared in 1899, forcing Dora Troutman to take over full management the Dode.[5]
Hood Canal route
By 1900, Dode was the only boat on the Hood Canal route, which started at Seattle and included landings at
Transfer to Bellingham interests
In 1902, Captain C.E. Curtis acquired Dode, with plans to run the vessel with another steamer, the
Collision and grounding
On December 6, 1903, in heavy fog, Willapa, by then renamed
In 1904, with PSN now fully in control of the Bellingham company's boats, Dode was placed on routes connecting the various lumber company ports. On May 4, 1907, while proceeding in a heavy fog, Dode ran aground on
Loss
On July 20, 1910, Dode was lost permanently, striking a rock and sinking, again off
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States (for year ending June 30, 1909), at 183
- ^ a b c Newell, Inland Sea, at 126, 206.
- ^ a b c d e Newell, H.W. McCurdy Marine History, at 15, 32, 77, 87, 96, 110, 135, 179, and 200.
- ^ a b Newell and Williamson, Pacific Steamships, at 98 and 103/
- ^ a b c Faber, Steamer's Wake, at 90, 106-107, 134, and 136.
References
- Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake, Enetai Press, Seattle, Washington (1985) ISBN 0-9615811-0-7
- Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, Washington (1966)
- Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, Washington (2nd Ed. 1960)
- Newell, Gordon R, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamships, Superior Publishing, Seattle, Washington (1958)
- U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States (for year ending June 30, 1909)