TJ Potter

Captain J. W. Troup, of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, demonstrated his ability as a
practical steamboatman in 1888 by building the 7: ./. Poller, the fastest sidewheel steamer in the Northwest. The
Poller was modeled after the famous Hudson River steamer Daniel
Drew, but Troup made some changes of material benefit in the design.
She is two hundred and thirty feet long, thirty-five feet beam, and
ten feet four inches hold, with engines thirty-two by ninety-six
inches. The house and upper works were taken from the old Wide
West, and no faster or finer steamer of her size has ever floated.


T. J. Potter (steamer)
Port Captain J. W. Troup, of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, demonstrated his ability as a practical steamboatman in 1888 by building the T. J. Potter, the fastest sidewheel steamer in the Northwest. The Potter was modeled after the famous Hudson River steamer Daniel Drew, but Troup made some changes of material benefit in the design. She is two hundred and thirty feet long, thirty-five feet beam, and ten feet four inches hold, with engines thirty-two by ninety-six inches. The house and upper works were taken from the old Wide West, and no faster or finer steamer of her size has ever floated. She was placed on the seaside route soon after completion, in charge of Archie L. Pease, captain; Edward Sullivan, pilot; Thomas Smith, chief engineer; Phil Carnes, assistant; and Daniel O'Neil, purser. She made remarkable time on that run and was taken off in September and sent to Puget Sound, Captain Pease, Engineer Smith and Steward Charles Petrie, going with her. She was engaged on the Seattle and Olympia ro