a result and Alverene was seriously damaged. Camano then sank at the dock. The small launch Arrow was demolished and the steam launches Ranger and Daphne suffered lesser damage.Faber, Steamer's Wake, at 162. It turned out that an engine room assistant, known as an oiler had been left in charge of the telegraph. No one was killed although there was at least one close call. The destruction showed the vulnerability of wooden hulled steamers, one of the reasons why the Puget Sound Navigation Company switched to steel-hulled vessels. Reconstruction as ferry Olympic In 1923, the Puget Sound Navigation Company decided to rebuild Sioux, then running the Seattle - Port Townsend route into an automobile ferry, and late in the year gave the reconstruction contract to the Todd Dry Dock corporation in Seattle. The reconstruction was completed in the first part of 1924. Sioux was renamed Olympic.Sioux, renamed Olympic was placed on the Victoria, British Columbia to Port Angeles, Washington route across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, departed from Seattle on Saturday, June 14, 1924, making her first run on June 15, 1924, under Capt. Louis Van Bogaert, Chief Officer Harry Carter, and Chief Engineer I. Terado. Olympic had been scheduled to depart on Friday the 13th, but company management felt this supposedly ill-omened date would create too much adverse comment, and postponed the departure by one day.Olympic is also reported to have been run on the Victoria, BC-Bellingham, Washington route. Later years In 1941, the U.S. Army bought Olympic from the Puget Sound Navigation Company and rebuilt her for service in the Panama Canal area as the Franklin R. Leisenburg. After the war the vessel was sold to a firm in Dutch Guiana for service out of Paramaribo on the Surinam River. As of the late 1950s the ship was reported to be still in operation on the Surinam river. Notes References Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake -- Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A., Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966) Newell, Gordon R., Ships of the Inland Sea, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (2nd Ed. 1960) Newell, Gordon R. and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA (1958). External links evergreen.com (Olympic page) (accessed 06-04-11) (provides several images of Sioux in service as ferry Olympic''.) Photograph of Sioux, circa 1912, probably in Seattle, University of Washington digital archives image TRA927 (accessed 06-04-11) Category:1910 ships Category:Steamboats of Washington (state) Category:Propeller-driven steamboats of Washington (state) Category:Ferries of Washington (state) Category:Maritime incidents in 1912 Category:Puget Sound Navigation Company