| Contextual Notes | The OCEAN WAVE was 724 tons and was designed by Jacob Kamm and built at Portland, Oregon, for the "seaside route" of the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Co. between Portland and Ilwaco, having been placed in service in 1891. On May 20, 1899, she departed Port Angeles, bound for San Francisco towed by a tug. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, having established its transcontinental western terminus at Richmond, California, was in need of a steamer to ferry passengers into San Francisco. She was laid up in 1911 at Antioch. She was then put back into service during World War I, having been purchased by the U.S. Shipping Board. In the 1920s she was sold for use as a floating restaurant. (pg. 50) Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).
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