Cyrus Walker in 1893
History
NameCyrus Walker
OwnerPope & Talbot
RoutePuget Sound
Ordered1864
BuilderDomingo Marcucci at Steamboat Point, San Francisco
Laid down1864
Launched1864
Completed1864
In service1864 - 1893?
General characteristics Cyrus Walker
Class and typeSide-wheel Steam tug
Length120
Beam28
Depth8
Deckstwo (main and passenger)
Installed powertwo high-pressure steam engines
Propulsionside-wheels

Cyrus Walker was a sidewheel tug active in Puget Sound in the second half of the 19th century.

Career

Domingo Marcucci built the Cyrus Walker at San Francisco, California at his Steamboat Point shipyard in 1864, for Pope & Talbot. She was 120 foot long side-wheel steamboat, with a 28-foot beam and an 8-foot hold. She was equipped with two high-pressure steam engines and a surface condenser. George W Bullene, who put machinery in her at the Pacific Iron Works, then took her up to Puget Sound for towing logs for the Pope & Talbot lumber mill on Puget Sound.[1] :127

Captain Bullene delivered Cyrus Walker to Port Gamble, Puget Sound in October, 1864. It was active at least as late as 1893.[2]

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


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