SS San Mateo

SS San Mateo
1964 photo
Location Seattle waterfront, Seattle, Washington
Area less than one acre
Built 1922 (1922)
NRHP reference # 71000876[1]
Added to NRHP April 7, 1971

SS San Mateo was a steamship ferry operating on the west coast of the United States. Launched in 1922, she served until 1940 in San Francisco Bay, operated by the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Ferries. In 1941 she was acquired by the Puget Sound Navigation Company, and then operated on Puget Sound until its retirement in 1969. At the time of her retirement she was the last operating vehicular steam ferry in the United States.[2] After attempts to restore her for display in a Seattle waterfront park, she was acquired by a Canadian businessman and towed to the Fraser River in British Columbia. There she was partially scrapped; portions of her hulk are supposedly still visible in the river.

The ship was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for SS San Mateo". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-10-27.


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