<p>Caption on image: July 1901.</p>
<p><br><br> The ALGOA was a British tramp steamer.  She arrived in Tacoma as a unit of the 1897 wheat fleet.  Carrying 12,000 short tons of grain, she was the largest vessel to enter that trade to that date (p. 18).  [Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966)</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCSH): Algoa (Steamship); Steamboats</li></ul>
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