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Steamship QUEEN at dock in Port Townsend, Washington, following a fire at sea on February 27, 1904
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| Title | Steamship QUEEN at dock in Port Townsend, Washington, following a fire at sea on February 27, 1904 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | 1904 |
| Notes | Caption on image: S.S. Queen showing portion burned Saturday morning Feb. 27th 1904, at sea. 218 people aboard, 14 lives lost. Nowell, 1440 |
| Contextual Notes | The steamship QUEEN of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. was on her scheduled passenger run up the coast from San Francisco to Puget Sound when, off Tillamook Head, Oregon, at four o'clock on the morning of February 27, 1904, fire broke out below decks and quickly enveloped the ship's stern. The captain and crew battled the blaze with utmost skill and courage and in this manner, a wholesale disaster was averted. The steamer reached Port Townsend the following day, but 14 lives were lost before the fire was controlled and the steamer sustained major damage, the stern and texas being burned out and much damage done to the decks and superstructure. (pg. 100) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966)
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Ships--Washington (State)--Port Townsend
Fires--Washington (State)--Port Townsend
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Queen (Ship)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Port Townsend |
| Digital Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photographs
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| Order Number | NOW079 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photograph Collection. PH Coll 316
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2002. |
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