Two steamers, the T.J. Potter and the Fleetwood, steaming into the Port of Olympia, 1889 (41/53)

Two steamers, the T.J. Potter and the Fleetwood, steaming into the Port of Olympia, 1889

The Fleetwood is in front, and the smaller of the two vessels. It has a lower passenger deck near the water line, with an exterior passenger walkway at the upper level of the wheelhouse. A single funnel is emitting steam. There is a mast with an American flag flying from it. The larger vessel, the T.J. Potter, has two enclosed passenger decks surmounted by a wheelhouse. Its sidewheel is enclosed. There is an aft deck behind the sidewheel. It also has a single funnel and a mast with a flag. Both vessels were members of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. Behind the two vessels is Olympia’s Long Wharf, with structures on it. It had been completed only the year before.

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