Telegraph (sternwheeler 1903)
Steamer Telegraph | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Telegraph, later Olympian, then Logger |
| Route | Puget Sound, Columbia River |
| In service | 1903 |
| Identification | U.S. 200012; as Logger, U.S. 224389 |
| Fate | Reconstructed 1924; dismantled 1940 |
| Notes | Known as Olympian after 1912, and Logger after 1924 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland steamship |
| Tonnage | 386 GRT, 243 NRT |
| Length | 153.7 ft (46.8 m) measured over the hull |
| Beam | 25.7 ft (7.8 m) |
| Depth | 8 ft (2 m) depth of hold |
| Decks | three (freight, passenger, boat) |
| Installed power | twin horizontally mounted single-cylinder steam engines; two cylinder compound steam engines after 1912. |
| Propulsion | stern-wheel |
| Speed | Maximum approx. 20 miles per hour. |
| Capacity | 400 passengers and 150 tons of freight |
| Crew | 11 |
Telegraph was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1903 in Everett, Washington. Except for the summer of 1905, from 1903 to 1912, Telegraph served in Puget Sound, running mainly on the route from Seattle to Everett, and also from Seattle to Tacoma and Olympia, Washington.
During the summer of 1905, Telegraph was transferred to Portland, Oregon to carry visitors arriving for the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Telegraph was nearly destroyed in 1912 when the large iron-hulled ocean-going steamer collided with Colman Dock, cutting completely through the dock from the south side, and then crushing Telegraph which had been tied up on the north side of the dock.
Telegraph was raised, rebuilt, and renamed Olympian. In 1916, Olympian was transferred to Portland, where it ran from Portland on several routes, including to The Dalles and Astoria, Oregon. Olympian was a popular excursion vessel for a number of years. Olympian served as a salvage support vessel in 1922. Olympian was dismantled in 1924, and the cabin structure and equipment was installed onto a newly built hull, and the new boat, named Logger, was used in towing work. Logger itself sank at its moorings in 1940 and was dismantled.