Anderson Steamboat Company steamer FORTUNA at the dock, probably in Seattle, ca 1912 (TRANSPORT 883)

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Anderson Steamboat Company steamer FORTUNA at the dock, probably in Seattle, ca 1912 (TRANSPORT 883)

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PH Coll 794.40
In 1906, the passenger steamer FORTUNA, 81 tons, 107 feet in length, was built at the Anderson Steamboat Co. yard for Capt. Anderson and the Seattle Street Railway Co. and placed in service on Lake Washington. In 1927, the FORTUNA was converted to a ferry and sold by King County to the King Shipbuilding Co. of Seattle. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.)
Subjects (LCSH): Fortuna (Steamboat); Steamboats--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle

More than "probably" in Seattle: that's the tip of the dock at Leschi. See File:Leschi dock circa 1910.jpg.

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1900 - 1920
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Seattle Transportation Photographs Collection
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