Capital City (sternwheeler)

Capital City in 1904. (Asahel Curtis photograph)
History
Name	Capital City
Owner	Canadian Pacific Railway
Route	Puget Sound
Builder	E.G. Rathbown
Completed	1898, Port Blakely
Out of service	1919
Identification	US registry #157507
Fate	Broken up in 1919.
General characteristics
Tonnage	522.8 gross; 348.2 registered
Length	150.2 ft (45.8 m)
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Depth	7 ft (2.1 m) depth of hold
Installed power	twin steam engines, horizontally mounted
Propulsion	sternwheel

Capital City was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. The vessel was originally named Dalton.

Career

Steam ship Capital City (right) stuck in ice, January 1907

Capital City was built in 1898 at Port Blakely at the Hall Brothers shipyard. This vessel was originally owned by Canadian Pacific Ry. and was acquired by White Pass in 1901, but was not used under White Pass ownership. The vessel was sold to S. Willey Steamship & Navigation Co. and renamed Capital City in 1901. The vessel was resold to McDonald Steamship Co. in 1903, resold to Olympia-Tacoma Navigation Co. in 1904, and resold again to Dallas, Portland & Astoria Navigation Co. in 1906. Broken up in 1919. The vessel was originally named for John "Jack" Dalton (1856–1944), an Alaskan packer.

References

• Affleck, Edwin L, ed. A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000) ISBN 0-920034-08-X
• Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6