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|Ship name=''Potlatch''
|Ship owner= [[Puget Sound Navigation Co.]]
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|Ship out of service= 1937
|Ship identification= US registry #210378
|Ship fate=Scrapped
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'''''Potlatch''''' was a steamship which was operated on [[Hood Canal]] from 1912 to 1917, on [[Puget Sound]] from 1917 to 1937, although the vessel was little used after 1917.

==Design and construction==
Following the loss of the nearly-new but wooden steamship [[Clallam (steamboat)|''Clallam'']] in 1904, [[Joshua Green (seaman and banker)|Joshua Green]], president of the [[Puget Sound Navigation Company]], owner of the ''Clallam'' and the dominant Puget Sound shipping concern, announced that the company would replace its wooden steamships with ones built of steel.<ref name = McCurdy-1>Newell, ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History'', at 208 and 504.</ref>  As part of this effort, the steel steamers  ''Potlatch'' and [[Sol Duc (steamship)|''Sol Duc'']] were built simultaneously in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] by the [[Seattle Construction and Drydock Company]].  ''Potlatch'' was specifically designed for the Seattle – [[Hood Canal]] route.<ref name = Evergreen>[http://www.evergreenfleet.com/steamerpotlatch.html ''Potlatch'']. EvergreenFleet.com.  Retrieved 17 April 2013.</ref>

''Potlatch'' was  575 gross tons in overall size, {{convert|150|ft|m|2|abbr=on}} long, with a beam of {{convert|26.8|ft|m|2|abbr=on}} and depth of hold of {{convert|16.8|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}.  Power was supplied by a triple-expansion compound [[steam engine]] with cylinder diameters, from high pressure to low pressure, of {{convert|15|in|cm|1|abbr=on}},  {{convert|24|in|cm|1|abbr=on}}and {{convert|38|in|cm|1|abbr=on}}, with piston strokes on all cylinders of {{convert|24|in|cm|1|abbr=on}}.  Steam was generated by two oil-fired boilers at 200 pounds (per square inch) pressure, with the overall power plant generating {{convert|600|hp}}.<ref name = McCurdy-2>Newell, ed., ''McCurdy Marine History'', at 204, 289, 455, and 458.</ref>

==Operation==
''Potlatch'' replaced the old sternwheeler [[State of Washington (sternwheeler)|''State of Washington'']] on the Hood Canal route.  In 1917, Puget Sound Navigation Co. terminated its Hood Canal service, and ''Potlatch'' was sold.<ref name = McCurdy-1/><ref name= Evergreen/>

==Disposition==
''Potlatch'' was little used following the termination of the Hood Canal service and its sale.  In 1937, ''Potlatch'' was sold by the [[Georgia Company]], a Puget Sound towing company, to Otis Shively who was doing business as the Shively Tow Boat Company.  In 1938 the vessel was scrapped.<ref name = McCurdy-1/>

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== References ==
* Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'',  Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
* Newell, Gordon R., ''Ships of the Inland Sea'', Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (2nd Ed. 1960)
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[[Category:1912 ships]]
[[Category:Steamboats of Washington (state)]]
[[Category:History of Mason County, Washington]]
[[Category:Propeller-driven steamboats of Washington (state)]]
[[Category:Puget Sound Navigation Company]]
[[Category:Ships built in Seattle]]


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