S.S. Kulshan 1910 Constructed: 1910, Moran Shipbuilders Length: 160.3 Feet Beam: 32 feet Draft:20.7 feet 926 tons  Propulsion: One triple expansion steam engine, developing 1,100 Hp 16 knots Above: the steamer Kulshan just off Anacortes not long after she was built.  Author's collection.
One of the original Black Ball steel hulled steamers, the Kulshan was  the first of a trio of single-stack steamers that company constructed in the wake of the Clallam disaster.       The Kulshan was unique in that even her steel was a Washington State product, having been  rolled at the Irondale Mill near Port Townsend.   The mill was shut down a short time later, unable to produce enough product to keep it open, making the Kulshan the only such Black Ball steamer to receive the local steel.      Black Ball assigned her to the Seattle-Everett-Anacortes-Bellingham run.  Remarkably, she maintained that route for nearly her entire career, remaining on the route until 1929.  At that point auto traffic was already becoming the main for of transport on Puget Sound, and the Kulshan spent most of her time in lay-up, never working full time again.      Not viable as a candidate to be converted into a ferry, the trim steamer was broken up for scrap in 1938.
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