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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.
The ship was commanded by Captain Anderson from 1876 to 1883, with a crew of 29, when she made voyages to Lyttelton, New Zealand and Dunedin, also making some very fast passages home to the United Kingdom, on one occasion, in 1880, travelling from Lyttelton to the Lizard in Cornwall in 71 days.
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 ...
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.
The new ship was christened Lady of the Lake. By June, 1897, Captain Anderson was sailing his old route from Leschi Park to Newcastle to East Seattle on Mercer Island with his new ship. [2] By August 1897, however, he had sold Lady of the Lake to C. E. Curtis of Whatcom for $4,700, and bought Curtis' old ship, the steamer Effort, for $17. [3]
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 ...
Fortuna was built for Captain John Anderson to join his fleet of steamboats on Lake Washington, operating under the name of the Anderson Steamboat Company. Anderson at that point may have been operating in partnership with the Seattle Street Railway. Fortuna had compound engines that had been built at Seattle Machine Works. [2]