Maritime Olympia and South Puget Sound by Les Eldridge

Author:Les Eldridge
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: unknown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Pictured here is the US Coast Survey steamer Active. This brig-rigged steamer (right) cruised the waters of Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the San Juan Islands for two decades, her soundings helping to strengthen the US claim to Haro Strait as the border between British Canada and the United States. (The ship at left is the HMS Satellite). Her commander, James Alden (first here with Wilkes), frequently visited Olympia and Fort Steilacoom in South Puget Sound during his involvement in the Indian Wars of 1855 and the Pig War, which lasted from 1859 to 1872. The US Coast Survey is the antecedent of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA). It was a prestigious assignment for a 19th-century Navy or Army officer. Isaac Stevens, Washington’s first territorial governor, was a US Coast Survey officer and later a Union army general in the Civil War.

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