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SS Arthur M. Anderson in August 2002 at a Duluth ore dock.. SS Arthur M. Anderson came out of the drydock of the American Ship Building Company of Lorain, Ohio in 1952. [1] She had a length of 647 feet (197 m), a 70-foot (21 m) beam, a 36-foot (11 m) depth, [1] and a gross tonnage of roughly 20,000 tons.
Publicly owned ferries (owned by King County on Lake Washington ran Captain Anderson out of the steamboat business by about the time of the First World War, so he sold his interest in the Anderson Steamboat Company. Later, Captain Anderson operated Fortuna and other former vessels of his as a lessee of King County. In 1919, Fortuna was ...
Captain Anderson operated Aquilo as the lessee of King County's ferry fleet. In November 1938, he returned Aquilo, and another former Anderson steamboat, Atlanta, to King County. [4] The county sold Aquilo for scrap to the Seattle firm of Pacific Metal & Salvage Co. for $360. [5] The steamboat Aquilo should not be confused with the steam yacht ...
Captain John Laurentius Anderson was a preeminent figure in Washington state maritime industries in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly ferry service, shipbuilding, and ship-based tourism. He ran the largest ferry fleet on Lake Washington for three decades.
Commodore John William Anderson (February 14, 1899 – February 15, 1976) was the longest serving captain of the SS United States, the fastest ocean liner in history. In 1952, he relieved Commodore Harry Manning as master of the superliner after the recordbreaking voyage on which she broke the translantic speed record previously held by the RMS Queen Mary and captured the Blue Riband for the ...
The private company could not compete. In May 1917, Captain Anderson took all his ships, except Dawn, Issaquah, and Arrow, out of service and announced his intention to terminate the Anderson Steamboat Company. [15] Dawn, too, was taken out of service by the end of September 1917. [16] Residents around the lake complained of the loss of service.
She was commissioned by Captain John Anderson, to expand his fleet of steamboats on Lake Washington, operating under the name of the Anderson Steamboat Company. [2] She was 85 feet (26 m) long, with a beam of 20.4 feet (6.2 m). She displaced 93 gross tons. [3]
Captain Anderson (or Alderson) sailed from Portsmouth on 27 February 1789, bound for Madras and China. Nottingham reached Madras on 18 June and arrived at Whampoa on 17 September. Homeward bound, she crossed the Second Bar on 3 December, reached St Helena on 14 March 1790, and arrived at the Downs on 23 May.