SS Olympia

For the cruise ship, see SS Olympia (1953).
SS Olympia seen aground on Bligh Reef, December 10, 1910
History
Name:
  • SS Dunbar Castle (1883-1895)
  • SS Olympia (1895-1910)
Operator:
Builder: Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow, Scotland
Completed: 1883
Fate: Wrecked December 10, 1910
General characteristics
Tonnage: 2,837 (gross)
Length: 335 ft (102 m)
Beam: 38 ft (12 m)

SS Olympia was a steamship that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. She was wrecked in 1910.

Olympia was built as SS Doune Castle in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Castle Mail Packet Company. In 1895, Dunbar Castle was sold to Fairfield Ship Building and Engineering Co. and renamed SS Olympia.

In 1897, the Scottish American Steam Ship Company bought her, and later that year she was bought by the Northern Pacific Steamship Line. In 1898, she operated with the North America Mail Steam Ship Company of Tacoma, Washington. In 1903, she operated under the North Western Steam Ship Company of Seattle, Washington, which sold her to the Alaska Steam Ship Company in 1904. That year, lifeboats were installed.

On December 10, 1910, Olympia ran aground on Bligh Reef off Alaska′s Prince William Sound and sank without loss of life. Following the sinking, steamboat inspectors accused Captain Daniels, in command of Olympia when she ran aground, of "unskillful navigation."[1]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Outside News of Alaskan Doings", Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner. January 14, 1911. Page A1.
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