were recorded as having gained “considerable notoriety” as a result of this incident. Collision and sinking of Virgil T. PriceOlympian collided with the tug Virgil T. Price at 8:50 p.m. on December 6, 1891, in Seattle. Olympian, running under Captain Ole A. Anderson, was coming to the City dock, but somehow veered into the coal bunkers at Colman Dock, at the foot of Madison Street. Precisely how the accident happened was not immediately clear, but it seemed that the wind had shifted and carried the Olympian straight into the Virgil T. Price at a speed of about , breaking two floating saw logs and cutting the Price completely in two. The only man on Price, a watchman, narrowly escaped with his life. The collision also seriously damaged the coal bunkers. Virgil Price was worth about $8,000, and was insured for $4,000 Olympian sustained no appreciable damage. Later years Transfer to Portland January 1892 In January 1892, Olympian was sent around from Puget Sound to Portland for repairs. The boilers were in poor condition and probably needed replacement. The work was expected to cost $20,000. The steamer was in Portland by January 14, 1892, when its crew had returned to Seattle. Out of service 1892-1906 After Olympian arrived in Portland in January 1892, it was never used again. No boiler replacement ever occurred. In 1895 expensive furnishings from Olympian, the armchairs, settees, and lounges, were installed in the OR&N's Columbia river sternwheeler R.R. Thompson. In 1897 the Klondike Gold Rush created a demand for marine transportation to Alaskan ports such as Skagway, Alaska, from which the gold fields could be reached. In July 1897 there was talk that Olympian and Victorian which had been lying idle for years in Portland, could be placed into the Alaska service. The Oregon Railway & Navigation Company had a facility in north Portland, on the Willamette River, called the "boneyard." The boneyard was used to store boats not needed for service, repair steamers to return to service, or to scrap or salvage vessels which were no longer useful. In February 1904 Olympian had been lying unused in the boneyard for over ten years. By that time Olympian was useless as a steamer. The steamer was obsolescent, the boilers were of no value, and it still remained too expensive to operate. The hull was thought to be the most valuable part of the boat. Wrecked in