SS Clallam

ID: 218 ~ Creator: Photo courtesy of the University of Washington Digital Collections

This file appears in: Always Listen to the Bell Sheep

The SS Clallam at sea.

This file appears in: Always Listen to the Bell Sheep

Always Listen to the Bell Sheep – The Terrifying Voyage of the SS Clallam

On April 15, 1903, as the steamship Clallam launched for the first time in Tacoma, Washington the woman who swung the bottle of champagne at her bow missed and the American flag unfurled upside down. The SS Clallam was off to a rocky start that…