page_title: Ocean Wave (sidewheeler)
section_title: Reconstruction
hierarchical_section_title: Ocean Wave (sidewheeler) / Reconstruction
caption_attribution_description: English: Ocean Wave following reconstruction as a steam ferry.
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: On arrival in San Francisco, Ocean Wave was tied up to the Washington Street wharf.  Modifications had to be made to refit Ocean Wave for ferry service. Within one-half hour, carpenters had begun to work on the vessel.  There were fifty staterooms on the main deck and over one hundred on the upper deck, all of which had to be removed, to convert the upper deck into a single large passenger lounge (called a “saloon”) and the lower deck into a freight area.   The bow had to be reconfigured to allow boarding over the front of the vessel at the ferry landing slips in the bay.
  Later the steamer was sent to Hay and Wright's shipyard at Oakland Creek. When complete, Ocean Wave would be a “single ender” ferry, like the San Rafael which was then operating on the bay.  Once in service, Ocean Wave and San Rafael would be the only single-ender ferries running on the bay, with all the rest being double-enders.
  In May 1899, it was reported that the time necessary to accomplish the reconstruction work would be about two months, and would be done about August 1, 1899. However, Ocean Wave was in the yard for seven months, and was finished a few days before April 8, 1900.
caption: Ocean Wave following reconstruction as a ferry in 1900.
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