T.W. Lake

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T.W. Lake at Pier 3, Seattle, 1915 or earlier.
History
Name:T.W. Lake
Owner: La Conner Trading & Trans. Co., others later
Builder: T.W. Lake
Completed: 1896
Out of service: 1923
Identification: US registry #145700
Fate: Lost with all hands in Rosario Strait.
General characteristics
Type: Inland steamboat
Tonnage: 191 gross tons
Length: 96.5 ft (29.41 m)
Beam: 24.9 ft (7.59 m)
Installed power: Twin compound steam engines, developing about 100 hp (75 kW); later 45 hp (34 kW) twin diesel engines.
Propulsion: Twin propellers
Notes: Reconstructed from hulk of steamer Annie M. Pence

T.W. Lake was a steamboat that ran on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. This vessel was lost with all hands on December 5, 1923 in one of the worst disasters of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Puget Sound sound along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington

Puget Sound is a sound along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections to the open Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca—Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and Deception Pass and Swinomish Channel being the minor.

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Career

T.W. Lake was built in 1896 by the T.W Lake shipyard for the firm of Joshua Green and associates, who had incorporated as the La Conner Trading and Transportation Company (LCT&T). The vessel had a wooden hull and works, and was intended to operate as a freighter. The hull was salvaged from the sternwheeler Annie M. Pence , which had burned in 1895. In 1903, the vessel passed into the control of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. ("PSN") after that company purchased LCT&T. In 1905 PSN sold the freighter to the Merchants Transportation Company. In 1916 T.W. Lake was fitted with Barlow freight elevator. In 1918 the vessel was completely reconstructed from the boiler room forward. The steam engines were removed and were replaced by two Fairbanks-Morse 45 horsepower (34 kW) diesel engines. [1]

The La Conner Trading and Transportation Company was founded in the early 1900s by Joshua Green and others, to engage in the shipping business on Puget Sound.

Annie M. Pence was a steamboat that ran on Puget Sound in the early 1890s.

The Merchants Transportation Company was a shipping firm that operated on Puget Sound from 1905 to 1929. This company should not be confused with the similarly named Merchants Transportation Company of Olympia, formed in 1874 and a completely separate firm.

Lost with all hands

On December 5, 1923, operating in the San Juan Islands, T.W. Lake was en route from Roche Harbor to Anacortes, Washington with a cargo of 300 barrels of lime, under Capt. E. E. Mason and chief engineer Joseph Larsen. Crossing Rosario Strait, at 7:15 p.m., the freighter encountered wind speeds of 72 miles per hour, and foundered off Lopez Island. All eighteen (18) men aboard were lost. [1]

San Juan Islands island group in Washington State, USA

The San Juan Islands are an archipelago in the northwest corner of the contiguous United States between the U.S. mainland and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of the U.S. state of Washington.

Anacortes, Washington City in Washington, United States

Anacortes is a city in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The name "Anacortes" is an adaptation of the name of Anne Curtis Bowman, who was the wife of early Fidalgo Island settler Amos Bowman. Anacortes' population was 15,778 at the time of the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Lime (material) calcium-containing inorganic mineral

Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral composed primarily of oxides, and hydroxide, usually calcium oxide and/ or calcium hydroxide. It is also the name for calcium oxide which occurs as a product of coal seam fires and in altered limestone xenoliths in volcanic ejecta. The word lime originates with its earliest use as building mortar and has the sense of sticking or adhering.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Newell, ed., McCurdy Marine History, at 343.

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