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Camano

Inland Steamboat · United States · Lost 1917 · Puget Sound & Discovery Bay

A Whidbey Island passenger steamer, renamed Tolo, sunk within minutes after a foggy 1917 collision with a tug in Puget Sound.

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Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

Built in 1906 at Coupeville as the steamer Camano for the Island Transportation Company's Everett-Coupeville run, the vessel was later renamed Tolo. On a foggy day in 1917, while carrying dozens of passengers and crew from Seattle toward Bainbridge Island, she was struck by the tug Magic and sank in under eight minutes, with four lives lost.

Vessel

Built: 1906
Registry: US registry #202970
Builder: Capt. H.B. Lovejoy
Yard: Coupeville, Washington
Material: Wood
Length: 108.9 ft
Beam: 16.9 ft
Tonnage: 92
Propulsion: Compound steam engine, single screw
Owners: Island Transportation Company

Loss

Date: November 5, 1917
Cause: Collision
Location: Puget Sound, en route Seattle to Bainbridge Island
Water: Puget Sound
Voyage: Seattle, Washington → Bainbridge Island, Washington
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: 61
Lives lost: 4
Master: George Benson

The Wreck Today

Depth: Not established
Condition: Not established
Orientation: Not established
Discovered: Not established
Protection: Not established

Position

Coordinates: 47.63° N 122.52° W
Accuracy: General area only
Nearest: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Region: Puget Sound & Discovery Bay

General area only: coordinate of Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, Washington, from the USGS Geographic Names Information System, marking the named destination place recorded in the loss record for this vessel, not a surveyed wreck position.