SS San Mateo

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = SS ''San Mateo'' | nrhp_type = | image = SS San Mateo.jpg | caption = 1975, docked at Lake Union, Seattle | location = Seattle waterfront, [[Seattle, Washington]] | locmapin = Washington#USA | built = {{Start date|1922}} | architecture = | added = April 7, 1971 | area = less than one acre | refnum = 71000876<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} [[File:PHOTOGRAPH -F7.1822N FY SAN MATEO PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 6, 1964. Photographer unknown. - San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA HAER WASH,17-SEAT,9-39.tif|thumb|261x261px|1964 photo]] '''SS ''San Mateo''''' was a steamship ferry operating on the west coast of the [[United States]]. Launched in 1922, she served until 1940 in [[San Francisco Bay]], operated by the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Ferries. In 1941 she was acquired by the Puget Sound Navigation Company, and then operated on [[Puget Sound]] until its retirement in 1969. At the time of her retirement she was the last operating vehicular steam ferry in the United States.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|71000876}}|title=NRHP nomination for SS San Mateo|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=2017-10-27}}</ref> After attempts to restore her for display in a Seattle waterfront park, she was acquired by a Canadian businessman and towed in 1992 to the [[Fraser River]] in [[British Columbia]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca/fedora/repository/pgc:1992-10-24-18 |page=18 |title=Prince George Citizen |date=24 Oct 1992|website=www.pgnewspapers.pgpl.ca}}</ref> The vessel became part of a small collection of derelict ferries.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/after-years-of-effort-ferry-remains/ |title=Mission City Record |date=25 Jul 2014|website=www.missioncityrecord.com}}</ref> There she was partially scrapped; portions of her hulk are still visible in the river, and readily apparent on satellite photos, as of 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/49%C2%B008'49.8%22N+122%C2%B023'25.5%22W/@49.1470914,-122.3906741,1183m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d49.1471556!4d-122.390425 | title=49°08'49.8"N 122°23'25.5"W · British Columbia, Canada }}</ref> A photo at the dock in July 2021 shows her hulk partially or fully aground, and leaning toward the former [[BC Ferries]] {{sclass|Sidney|ferry|1}} MV ''Queen of Sidney''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps/@49.1470914,-122.3906741,3a,75y,68.5h,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMp5O5jjeb13K--yZOm_v0ZGxtXwcFCLgZ5rnqj!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMp5O5jjeb13K--yZOm_v0ZGxtXwcFCLgZ5rnqj%3Dw203-h135-k-no!7i1920!8i1280 | title=Google Maps }}</ref>

The ship was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1971.<ref name="nris"/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{HAER |survey=WA-17 |id=wa0222 |title=San Mateo Ferry, South end of Lake Union, Seattle, King County, WA |photos=39 |data=15 |cap=4}}

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