T.W. Lake

T.W. Lake at Pier 3, Seattle, 1915 or earlier.
Career
Name:	T.W. Lake
Owner:	La Conner Trading & Trans. Co., others later
Builder:	T.W. Lake
Completed:	1896
Out of service:	1923
Identification:	US registry #145700
Fate:	Lost with all hands in Rosario Strait.
General characteristics
Type:	Inland steamboat
Tonnage:	191 gross tons
Length:	96.5 ft (29.41 m)
Beam:	24.9 ft (7.59 m)
Installed power:	Twin compound steam engines, developing about 100 hp (75 kW); later 45 hp (34 kW) twin diesel engines.
Propulsion:	Twin propellers
Notes:	Reconstructed from hulk of steamer Annie M. Pence

T.W. Lake was a steamboat that ran on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. This vessel was lost with all hands on December 5, 1923 in one of the worst disasters of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Career

T.W. Lake was built in 1896 by the T.W Lake shipyard for the firm of Joshua Green and associates, who had incorporated as the La Conner Trading and Transportation Company (LCT&T). The vessel had a wooden hull and works, and was intended to operate as a freighter. The hull was salvaged from the sternwheeler Annie M. Pence, which had burned in 1895. In 1903, the vessel passed into the control of the Puget Sound Navigation Co. ("PSN") after that company purchased LCT&T. In 1905 PSN sold the freighter to the Merchants Transportation Company. In 1916 T.W. Lake was fitted with Barlow freight elevator. In 1918 the vessel was completely reconstructed from the boiler room forward. The steam engines were removed and were replaced by two Fairbanks-Morse 45 horsepower (34 kW) diesel engines.^[1]

Lost with all hands

On December 5, 1923, operating in the San Juan Islands, T.W. Lake was en route from Roche Harbor to Anacortes, Washington with a cargo of 300 barrels of lime, under Capt. E. E. Mason and chief engineer Joseph Larsen. Crossing Rosario Strait, at 7:15 p.m., the freighter encountered wind speeds of 72 miles per hour, and foundered off Lopez Island. All eighteen (18) men aboard were lost.^[1]

Notes

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 (2nd Ed. 1960).
• Wright, E.W., Lewis & Dryden's Marine history of the Pacific Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR (1995)
• US Steamboat Inspection Service, Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector General for fiscal year ending June 30, 1924. (accessed 06-02-11)

Puget Sound propellers Wooden hulls Albion Alice (1897) Alice Gertrude Annie M. Pence Aquilo (steamship) Audrey Bay Island Bellingham Burton C.C. Cherry Calista Clallam Crest Crystal Daring Dart Dauntless Defiance Dix Dode Dove Elfin Elk Elsinore Fleetwood Florence K Fortuna Flyer General Miles Hattie Hansen Hector Hyak Inland Flyer Iola Island Islander Katherine L.T. Haas Lady of the Lake Magnolia Mizpah Monticello 2 Otter Quickstep Rosalie Sentinel Triton Urania Vashon Verona Victor Virginia V Willapa Iron or steel hulls Aquilo (yacht) El Primero M/V Coho Duwamish Tacoma