page_title: Ocean Wave (sidewheeler)
section_title: Purchase by Santa Fe Railroad
hierarchical_section_title: Ocean Wave (sidewheeler) / Purchase by Santa Fe Railroad
caption_attribution_description: English: Sidewheeler Ocean Wave, built 1891, transferred to California 1899, converted to restaurant 1920s. For dates, see Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicolls Press, Vancouver BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
context_page_description: Ocean Wave was a steamboat that was operated from 1891 to 1897 on the Columbia River, from 1897 to 1899 on Puget Sound and from 1899 to 1911 as a ferry on San Francisco Bay. Ocean Wave is perhaps best known for transporting summer vacationers from Portland, Oregon to seaside resorts near Ilwaco, Washington during its service on the Columbia River. This vessel is also known for being the first ferry placed in service by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
context_section_description: By 1899, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad had completed its transcontinental line with its western terminus at Point Richmond.  To complete the final part of the line to San Francisco, the railroad needed a steamer to carry its passengers across the bay.  Santa Fe had a new ferry boat ordered and under construction at Union Iron Works but this would not be complete in time.  With no suitable local steamer available, the railroad's traffic manager, W.A. Bissell, asked Capt. John Leale, of the Southern Pacific ferry lines, to go to Pacific Northwest to attempt to locate an appropriate vessel.
  Leale's employer, Southern Pacific, was willing to cooperate with the Santa Fe, and so Leale went to the Pacific Northwest to look for a boat.  Leale first went to Portland, Oregon, and then to Puget Sound, where he met Gary W. Cook.  Cook took Leale north to New Westminster, British Columbia, where Cook had had the Ocean Wave docked, and offered the boat to Leale  Leale liked the strong build of the vessel, so bought Ocean Wave for his own account, subject to the conditions that it be delivered to San Francisco and it be able to raise steam and turn its wheels over under its own power once it arrived there.
caption: Ocean Wave in service, unknown location on either the Columbia River or Puget Sound, sometime between 1891 and 1899.
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