Lake Tahoe
Alpine clarity over preserved hulls
The steamer era of Lake Tahoe moved mail, lumber and passengers around an alpine lake of extraordinary clarity and depth.
Steamers built for the Bliss lumber empire worked Tahoe for nearly half a century until the ring road around the lake made them obsolete. Laid-up vessels were towed out and scuttled in deep water, where the cold clarity of the lake has preserved them better than almost any other wreck site in America.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableEmerald Bay Barge I
AH-WR-0424Emerald Bay State Park, California
Scuttled after being retired from service, in the early 20th century · Barge · 40 deep
AvailableEmerald Bay Barge II
AH-WR-0425Emerald Bay State Park, California
Scuttled after being retired from service, in the early 20th century · Barge · 40 deep
AvailableFlorence M
AH-WR-0852Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California
Scuttled in the 1950s after the resort closed · Passenger Launch · 10-40 deep
AvailableGovernor Blasdel
AH-WR-0423Glenbrook, Nevada
Approximately 13 years after her 1864 launch, so circa the late 1870s · Steamboat
AvailableSS Tahoe
AH-WR-0185Glenbrook, Nevada
August 1940, with the precise day reported variously · Steamship · About 365 feet at the bow to 475 feet at the stern, on a sloped bottom deep
