File:Pacific Coast Steamship Company steamer SPOKANE, Alaskan excursion vessel, south-bound in the Inside Passage, ca 1911 (TRANSPORT 925).jpg

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The SPOKANE was built at Union Iron Works in San Francisco in 1902 for the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. She was designed specifically for the growing Alaskan tourist excursion trade. She was a steel, single-screw vessel registering 2,277 tons with dimensions 270.1x40.1x17.3 ft powered by a triple-expansion steam engine. The SPOKANE was fitted out to carry 171 first-class passengers, generally tourists, and 100 passengers in steerage, used for cannery worker transportation. She ran ashore in Peril Straits, Alaska, in June 1910. Repairwork by Moran & Co. cost $20,000. On June 29, 1911, the SPOKANE struck an uncharted rock in Seymour Narrows, Alaska, partially sinking and drowning one passenger. The SPOKANE was later refloated by the British Columbia Salvage Co. The vessel became part of the new Pacific Steamship Co. fleet in 1916. In 1921 she was overhauled and renamed ADMIRAL ROGERS. In 1946 she was sold by Dulien Steel Product Co. to Hal Salvesen and M.L. Haines and towed to Blind Bay, Shaw Island in the San Juan group, where she was beached and converted to a resort hotel under the name SAN JUAN ADMIRAL. This venture proved unprofitable and she was scrapped at the Seattle yard of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. in 1948. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.)

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