The Alexander: A 170-Foot Steamer Launches at Port Ludlow
McAllister Bros. launch a 600-ton steamer built to run 15 miles an hour—one of the most powerful boats on Puget Sound.
The Alexander is the name of the new steamer built at Port Ludlow by the McAllister Bros. She was launched lately and has since gone down by the Otter to Victoria. She is 170 feet long, 27 feet beam, calculated to measure 600 tons, run 15 miles an hour, and to be one of the most powerful boats on the Sound.
“one of the most powerful boats on the Sound”
The Alexander was part of the steamboat age that knit Puget Sound communities together before roads. Port Ludlow's shipyard and the McAllister brothers are now footnotes, but the vessel's launch shows how maritime technology once drove local prosperity. The same waters now carry ferries and recreational boats rather than steamers.
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