Completed 1883 Beam 38 ft (12 m) Builder Barclay Curle | Tonnage 2,837 (gross) Length 102 m | |
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Name SS Dunbar Castle (1883-1895)
SS Olympia (1895-1910) Operator Castle Mail Packet Company (1883-1895)
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (1895-1897)
Scottish American Steam Ship Co. (1897)
Northern Pacific Steamship Line (1897-1898)
North America Mail Steam Ship Co. (1898-1903)
North Western Steam Ship Co. (1903-1904)
Alaska Steam Ship Co. (1904-1910) Fate Wrecked December 10, 1910 | ||
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SS Olympia was a steamship that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. She was wrecked in 1910.
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Olympia was built as SS Doune Castle in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Castle Mail Packet Company. In 1895, Dunbar Castle was sold to Fairfield Ship Building and Engineering Co. and renamed SS Olympia.
In 1897, the Scottish American Steam Ship Company bought her, and later that year she was bought by the Northern Pacific Steamship Line. In 1898, she operated with the North America Mail Steam Ship Company of Tacoma, Washington. In 1903, she operated under the North Western Steam Ship Company of Seattle, Washington, which sold her to the Alaska Steam Ship Company in 1904. That year, lifeboats were installed.
On December 10, 1910, Olympia ran aground on Bligh Reef off Alaska′s Prince William Sound and sank without loss of life. Following the sinking, steamboat inspectors accused Captain Daniels, in command of Olympia when she ran aground, of "unskillful navigation."