Capt. George Roberts (photograph taken before 1895)

ID: 219 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR 1895

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Captain of the SS Clallam, Roberts was suspended following the disaster.

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

By Scott Ward

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…