service in Gig Harbor, W.T., would be taken to British Columbia to carry coal to Victoria from mines at Nanaimo, BC mainly to supply Olympian. Olympian drew much more water than other steamers on the Columbia River, and as a result the large steamer was essentially limited to the run on the lower Columbia from Portland to Astoria. When Olympian arrived in Puget Sound, no dry dock or other facility existed in Oregon or Washington large enough to accommodate the vessel for repair. Oregon Rwy and Nav. Co. planned to steam the vessel south to San Francisco, California to be placed on a dry dock for repairs, including hull scrapping, caulking, and repainting. This had to be done with careful regard for bad weather, because Olympian had not been built as an ocean-going vessel. When the time came in March 1885 for Olympian to dry dock in San Francisco, its insurance carriers threatened by telegram to cancel their $260,000 policy on the steamer if the extensions of the main deck, called “guards”, outboard from the edge of actual hull, were not removed before beginning the voyage to San Francisco. Removal and replacement would cost at least $1,000. By the summer of 1891, there was a gridiron at Olympia, Washington which could accommodate Olympian. This was just a few months before the end of the steamer's active service life. Puget Sound service 1884-1885 Olympian arrived at Union wharf in Port Townsend, W.T. on the afternoon of Friday, March 7, 1884. The voyage of about had taken 92 days, and allowing for 9 days stopping in various ports en route, the steamer would have averaged about per day. Two OR&N officials, Superintendent Frank T. Dodge, and Captain C.E. Clancy, of its Puget Sound division, inspected the vessel upon its arrival and found it sound. According to the Tacoma Ledger, thirteen stowaways arrived on the Olympian. Most of them boarded the steamer at Valparaiso. Tacoma-Victoria run Olympian was expected to be able to make the 140 mile run between Tacoma, W.T. and Victoria, B.C. in eight hours, including stops en route. Captain Wilson, then in command of the inland sidewheeler North Pacific (488 GT), and his purser, would be shifted over to be in charge of Olympian. Newspapers reported the officers to operate Olympian on Puget Sound would be the popular Capt. Thomas F. Wilson, then in charge of North Pacific, George Roberts,