Cyrus Walker

Cyrus Walker in 1893
History
Name	Cyrus Walker
Owner	Pope & Talbot
Route	Puget Sound
Ordered	1864
Builder	Domingo Marcucci at Steamboat Point, San Francisco
Laid down	1864
Launched	1864
Completed	1864
In service	1864 - 1893?
General characteristics Cyrus Walker
Class & type	Side-wheel Steam tug
Length	120
Beam	28
Depth	8
Decks	two (main and passenger)
Installed power	two high-pressure steam engines
Propulsion	side-wheels

Cyrus Walker was a sidewheel tug active in Puget Sound in the second half of the 19th century.

Career

Domingo Marcucci built the Cyrus Walker at San Francisco, California at his Steamboat Point shipyard in 1864, for Pope & Talbot. She was 120 foot long side-wheel steamboat, with a 28-foot beam and an 8-foot hold. She was equipped with two high-pressure steam engines and a surface condenser. George W Bullene, who put machinery in her at the Pacific Iron Works, then took her up to Puget Sound for towing logs for the Pope & Talbot lumber mill on Puget Sound.^{[1] : 127}

Captain Bullene delivered Cyrus Walker to Port Gamble, Puget Sound in October, 1864. It was active at least as late as 1893.^[2]

References

1. Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, pp.127-129; from quod.lib.umich.edu accessed March 10, 2015
2. Harvey Kimball Hines, An Illustrated History of the State of Washington: Containing Biographical Mention of Its Pioneers and Prominent Citizens, Lewis publishing Company, Chicago, 1893, p.762

• Affleck, Edwin L, ed. A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000) ISBN 0-920034-08-X