S.S. Sol Duc 1912
	Built: 1912, Seattle Construction & Drydock  Length: 189 feet  Beam: 31.5 feet Draft:22.6 feet 1,085 tons One triple expansion engine, 1,500 Horsepower. Sol Duc translates to "magical waters."
					Along with the Potlatch, 1912 saw the contruction and launch of a second large steamer, the S.S. Sol Duc. The Puget Sound Navigation Co. was well on its way to replacing its fleet of old wooden steamers with one of steel.      Both the  Sol Duc and Potlatch were completed by the Seattle Construction & Drydock Co., and went into  service in the  summer of 1912.      The Sol Duc was  designed for the Seattle Port Townsend-Port Angeles-Port Crescent run.        She also made trips to Victoria, but was notable rolling heavily when seas got rough.  Passengers who  made the crossing on the Sol Duc  her in a gale never forgot the experience.       The Sol Duc stayed on the route she was built for until 1929 when she took over for the Kulshan on the Seattle-Everett-Anacortes-Bellingham route.  She stayed on that run  until theroute was discontinued.   She was later mothballed along with all the other steamers, but avoided scrapping.       World War II saw the Sol Duc and the steam ferry Quilcene (ex-Kitsap II and City of Bellingham)  taken over from the Puget Sound Navigation Co. by the U. S. Navy in 1942.   The Sol Duc was used as a barracks ship and the Quilcene as a machine shop.  At the end of the war, however, both  vessels were scrapped.
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