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| Title | Ship TAMPICO sinking at anchor at the Pacific Coast Coal Company dock in Seattle, 1911 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1911 |
| Notes | The TAMPICO sank at the Pacific Coast Coal Company bunkers in Seattle at midnight, May 18, 1911, despite efforts of the fireboat SNOQUALMIE and the tug LUMBERMAN to keep her afloat. The vessel was raised June 25.
PH Coll 794.66 |
| Contextual Notes | In 1901 the Globe Navigation Co. purchased the Great Lakes freighter TAMPICO, along with the METEOR and EUREKA, for use between the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii.In 1907 it was purchased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. It sank at anchor, and was subsequently raised, in 1911. In 1917 the TAMPICO was sold to East Coast owners and dispatched to the Atlantic. (Source: Newell, Gordon, ed. "The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest." Seattle: The Superior Company, 1966.) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Tampico (Ship)
Shipwrecks--Washington (State)--Seattle
Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA938 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Coastal Puget Sound Photograph Collection. PH Coll 794 |
| Object Type | Negative |
| Physical Description | nitrate negative; 5.75 x 3.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a nitrate negative using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2009. |
