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English: Ship TAMPICO sinking at anchor at the Pacific Coast Coal Company dock in Seattle, 1911   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Ship TAMPICO sinking at anchor at the Pacific Coast Coal Company dock in Seattle, 1911
Description
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The TAMPICO sank at the Pacific Coast Coal Company bunkers in Seattle at midnight, May 18, 1911, despite efforts of the fireboat SNOQUALMIE and the tug LUMBERMAN to keep her afloat. The vessel was raised June 25 .

PH Coll 794.108

In 1901 the Globe Navigation Co. purchased the Great Lakes freighter TAMPICO, along with the METEOR and EUREKA, for use between the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.In 1907 it was purchased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. It sank at anchor, and was subsequently raised, in 1911. In 1917 the TAMPICO was sold to East Coast owners and dispatched to the Atlantic. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.)

  • Subjects (LCSH): Tampico (Ship); Shipwrecks--Washington (State)--Seattle; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place Seattle
Date 1911
date QS:P571,+1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: nitrate negative
Dimensions height: 5.7 in (14.6 cm); width: 3.5 in (88.9 mm)
dimensions QS:P2048,5.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,3.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
894
Source
English: Transportation Photographs Collection
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