Echo (steam tug)

Echo (steam tug)

The steam tug "Echo" operated in the early 1900s on Puget Sound. [Newell, Gordon R., ed., "H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest", at 61, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966]

Construction

"Echo" was built at Tacoma in 1906 by Crawford and Reid for Captain O. G. Olson. "Echo" was propeller-driven and 66.5' long. [McCurdy, at 61]

Operation

On August 16, 1906, the Foss gasoline-powered launch "Lion" caught fire in Commencement Bay, when a fuel valve mistakenly left open had spilled 30 gallons of gasoline into her bilges, which was ignited by the engine backfiring. "Echo" pumped water on board "Lion" until the fire was out, while a boat from the cutter "Grant" took off her crew and passengers. [McCurdy, at 127]

Purchase by Foss Launch & Tug Co.

In 1916 Foss Launch & Tug Co. bought Captain O.G. Olson’s Tacoma towing business, including the steam tugs "Echo", "Elf", and "Olympian". In 1921, Perry Moore became "Echo" ‘s chief engineer. [McCurdy, at 265, 266 and 632]

Notes

External links

Historic images from the on-line collections of the University of Washington

* [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm-desmo/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmaritime&CISOPTR=537&CISOBOX=1&REC=3 "Echo" (undated photograph)]
* [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm-desmo/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmaritime&CISOPTR=395&CISOBOX=1&REC=4 "Elf" in Tacoma Harbor (a similar steam tug, also owned by Capt. O.G. Olson and later Foss Launch & Tug)]
* [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm-desmo/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/imlsmaritime&CISOPTR=455&CISOBOX=1&REC=19 "Olympian", another steam tug owned by Capt. O.G. Olson]


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