San Francisco. This incident occurred in the same coastal area where Alaskan would be sunk in a storm two years later. Inside Passage serviceOlympian soon returned to the Pacific Northwest under Captain Carroll, reaching Port Townsend on Sunday night, April 17, 1887, proceeding on to Seattle at 3:00 a.m. the next morning. Olympian departed Seattle for Alaska on noon April 20, 1887. Olympian returned to Port Townsend from Alaska on April 30, 1887. On May 26, 1887, Olympian arrived at Tacoma seventy-four hours out of Sitka, Alaska, the fastest time on record. A day or two before August 23, 1887, Olympian arrived at Port Townsend from points in southern Puget Sound with a small number of passengers, for its last trip to Alaska. It was said that the steamer lost $30,000 during the course of its summer Alaska operations. Temporary excursion work in Puget Sound In June 1887, in an interruption of its Alaskan operations that summer, Olympian was advertising for excursion business out of Seattle. Puget Sound service 1887-1891 Starting October 24, 1887, OR&N ran Olympian on daily round trips (except Sunday) on the Tacoma-Port Townsend-Victoria route.Olympian had always been advertised as a fast luxury vessel. Even so, a day or two before November 18, 1887, Olympian was three hours late out of Seattle to Port Townsend, carrying 1,000 hogs bound for Victoria. On March 26, 1888, Olympian made its fastest time yet between Seattle and Tacoma, one hour and 22 minutes. This was just three minutes behind the best time of the sidewheeler T.J. Potter, one of the fastest, if not the fastest, steamers on Puget Sound at the time. Dry docked at Esquimalt December 1888 On Sunday, December 16, 1888, Olympian was placed in the dry dock at Esquimalt, British Columbia to have the hull scraped clean of marine growth which impeded its speed. It was difficult to get the steamer into the drydock; part of the paddle box on one side had to be removed. The Esquimalt dry dock was chosen as the better alternative to running the steamer south to San Francisco. The work on the steamer required 125 men, and was estimated to cost $4,000. Fire in Port Townsend January 1889 On January 17, 1889, fire broke out in the business district of Port Townsend. Olympian was at the port at the time, and Capt. George Roberts lent the fire fighters the steamer's fire