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The steamboat ''Fortuna'' was a vessel that operated on Lake Washington in the first part of the 20th Century. ==Construction== ''Fortuna'' was built in 1904 at a shipyard on the west side of Lake Washington two blocks south of Leschi Park. She was 106.9 feet in length overall, and rated at 81 tons. The vessel is reported to have been acquired by Anderson Steamboat Company at a cost $31,500 in December 1906.〔 (Public Service Comm'n vs. Anderson Steamboat Co., Case No. 4348, published in Eighth Annual Report of the Public Service Comm'n of Washington (1918), at page 179. ) (accessed 06-06-11)〕 ''Fortuna'' was built for Captain John Anderson to join his fleet of steamboats on Lake Washington, operating under the name of the Anderson Steamboat Company. Anderson at that point may have been operating in partnership with the Seattle Street Railway. ''Fortuna'' had compound engines that had been built at Seattle Machine Works. .〔Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', at 119 and 388, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966〕 Fortuna was the Roman name for the goddess of fortune. Captain Anderson named his vessels after classical gods, starting with ''Xanthus'' and ''Cyrene''. ''Fortuna'' was known for her distinctive chime whistle, which had been personally prepared by Captain Anderson, filing away at the whistle’s pipe until the sound suited him. Later the whistle was transferred to another Anderson boat, the ''Sightseer'', which became one of the last steamboats of the Mosquito Fleet to operate on Puget Sound. 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「Fortuna (steamboat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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