Potlatch (steamship)
Potlatch was a steamship which was operated on Hood Canal from 1912 to 1917, on Puget Sound from 1917 to 1937, although the vessel was little used after 1917. Design and construction. Following the loss of the nearly-new but wooden steamship "Clallam" in 1904, Joshua Green, president of the Puget Sound Navigation Company, owner of the "Clallam" and the dominant Puget Sound shipping concern, announced that the company would replace its wooden steamships with ones built of steel. As part of this effort, the steel steamers "Potlatch" and "Sol Duc" were built simultaneously in Seattle by the  Seattle Construction and Drydock Company. "Potlatch" was specifically designed for the Seattle – Hood Canal route. "Potlatch" was 575 gross tons in overall size, long, with a beam of and depth of hold of . Power was supplied by a triple-expansion compound steam engine with cylinder diameters, from high pressure to low pressure, of , and , with piston strokes on all cylinders of . Steam was generated by two oil-fired boilers at 200 pounds (per square inch) pressure, with the overall power plant generating . Operation. "Potlatch" replaced the old sternwheeler "State of Washington" on the Hood Canal route. In 1917, Puget Sound  Navigation Co. terminated its Hood Canal service, and "Potlatch" was sold. Disposition. "Potlatch" was little used following the termination of the Hood Canal service and its sale. In 1937, "Potlatch" was sold by the Georgia Company, a Puget Sound towing company, to Otis Shively who was doing business as the Shively Tow Boat Company. In 1938 the vessel was scrapped.