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''C.C. Calkins'' was a small steamboat built in 1890 which served on Lake Washington. == Career== ''C.C. Calkins'' was named after Charles C. Calkins, a Seattle businessman who was involved in real estate development projects around Leschi Park and Mercer Island. Calkins, doing business as Lake Washington Land & Improvement Co., built a hotel on Mercer Island, which he named the “C.C. Calkins.” He invested about $30,000 in the hotel and about $70,000 more in real estate development in the Leschi Park area of Seattle.〔Kline and Bayless, ''Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound'', at pages 143-44/〕 To serve these areas, Calkins had a steamer built by W.C. Peterson, which he named ''C.C. Calkins.'' The vessel was launched on March 21, 1890 and formally registered on May 2, 1890. The first crew of the ''Calkins'' included Capt. H.M. Race, supervising engineer E.W. Dieckhoff, and deckhand John L. Anderson (1868-1941), who would later become a major steamboat owner on Lake Washington.〔 ''Calkins'' was sold on November 15, 1890, and L.B. Hastings became master. When President Harrison visited Seattle in 1891, he was taken around the lake on the sidewheeler ''Kirkland'', with the ''Calkins'' (and other ships) travelling as escorts, with the steam calliope on ''Calkins'' playing Home Sweet Home.〔 ''Calkins'' was sold again on December 12, 1891, and the new captain was George H. Rodgers, who stayed until 1892. Anderson, who had worked up from a deckhad to a purser, was placed in command.〔Newell and Williamson, ''Pacific Steamboats'', at 132.〕 However, because of the fall off in business during the Panic of 1893, Anderson's command did last long, as economic conditions forced the steamer to be taken out of service.〔 In 1895, ''Calkins'' was said to be “one of the best steamers built on the lake but never steadily employed.”〔(Wright, E.W., ''Lewis & Dryden's Marine history of the Pacific Northwest'', Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR (1895) ), at page 375.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「C.C. Calkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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