Steam tug Richard Holyoke on the Nushagak River in Alaska, circa 1912

ID: 220 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the University of Washington Digital Libraries

This file appears in: Always Listen to the Bell Sheep

This photo taken by John E. Thwaites depicts the steam tug Richard Holyoke which helped save drowning passengers of the SS Clallam.

This file appears in: Always Listen to the Bell Sheep

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…