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The SS St. Marys Challenger is a freight-carrying vessel operating on the North American Great Lakes built in 1906. Originally an ore boat, she spent most of her career as a cement carrier when much larger ore boats became common.
Jay Jacobs – Seattle-based clothier; founded in 1941 and closed in 1999 Kids "R" Us – a division of Toys "R" Us, created in 1983 to sell children's and preteen clothing; folded in 2003 Kinney Shoes – manufacturer and retailer established in 1894 and purchased by F.W. Woolworth in 1963
Nov. 25—In Portland's historical Abyssinian Meeting House, 198 names were read aloud Saturday remembering those who perished 125 years ago in New England's worst maritime disaster. On the ...
Most of these locomotives were purchased or leased from the SP&S's parent roads Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway.The 4-8-4 Northerns and 4-6-6-4 Challengers were purchased new.
Portland ' s wooden hull was built by the New England Company in Bath, Maine.The 1200-horsepower vertical-beam steam engine was constructed by the Portland Company, with a bore, or cylinder diameter, measuring 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) across, together with a 12 ft (3.7 m) stroke. [1]
On February 13, 1947, on a voyage from Ketchikan to Seattle sank on Porter Reef, Shearwater, British Columbia, in Seaforth Channel. [10] SS North Wind a 2,448 ton passenger steamer, was stranded and was lost December 14, 1944 near Simeonof Island under used by the US Army. Built in 1918 by the New York Shipbuilding Company.
Vernon L. Fonk (June 5, 1930 – May 22, 2006) [1] was a Seattle entrepreneur best known for founding Vern Fonk Insurance, a high-risk auto insurance agency with seventeen offices, servicing Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
SS Indiana was an iron passenger-cargo steamship built by William Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia in 1873. The third of a series of four Pennsylvania-class vessels, Indiana and her three sister ships – Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois – were the largest iron ships ever built in the United States at the time of their construction, and among the first to be fitted with compound steam engines.