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THE Marine REVIEW June, 1999 : New Passenger Steamer Hyak i. Designed for Economical Operation in Fast Daylight Service on Puget 126 HE factors involved in the de- sign of a fast 'passenger steamer for service on the in- land waters of the Pacific coast are numerous, varied and puzzling. On the different routes the of traffic vary differ; volume and _ periods widely; weather conditions was built. For this reason the boats differ in a number of important re- spects and a_ direct comparison of the two would be unfair. The Hyak is a wooden vessel and was built by Joseph Supple, ship- builder, Portland, Oregon. She is 'owned by the Kitsap County Trans- Fic. 1--STeEaMER Hyak IMMEDIATELY AFTER HER ARRIVAL AT S€ATTLE, tides and depth of water have an im- portant bearing on the problem; some runs are only five or six miles in length while others extend over 200 miles; on certain routes there are no stops except at terminals, on others the number of way landings vary from one to thirty. Yet these min- utely varying details have a sufficient number of common features 'to per- mit the crystallization of passenger steamer designs on the north Pacific into a number of definite types. <A number of steamers illustrating these types have fbeen discussed in previous issues of THE Marine Review. In this article we present for consideration the new Puget Sound passenger Steamer Hyak The Hyak is a fast, daylight steamer belonging to the same general class as the steamer H. B. Kennedy described in the April issue of THE Marine Review. The service for which the Hyak was de- signed is not, however, exactly sim- ilar to that for which the Kennedy portation Co. of Seattle, owners of the steatmers Reliance, Burton and Kitsap. She was designed by Mr. Sound By H. Cole Estep Supple, with the collaboration of B. F. Morgan, manager of the Kitsap County Transportation Co. Her ma- chinery, including both 'boiler and en- gines, was designed and built by the Gas Engine & Power Co. and Chas. L. Seabury & Co., Consolidated, New York. Design of the Hyak. In order to thoroughly. appreciate the design of the Hyak we must be familiar with the work of the fleet with which she is to be associated. As mentioned above, including the Hyak, the Kitsap County Transporta- tion Co. owns and operates four steamers. The Reliance, which is the oldest of the fleet, was built in 1900; She is: 118. ft, in, length, 20. ft. beam and 154 gross tons register; she has a speed of 15 miles an hour. The Burton was built in 1905; she is 93 ft. long, 20. "ft. 'beam and 122 gross tons register. Her speed is twelve miles an hour. The Kitsap, which is almost a' sister ship to the Hyak, is 127 it. in length, 22 ft. beam and 195 gross tons register. She was built in 1906. She cost $40,000 and has a speed of 17 miles an hour. This fleet takes care of the traffic between Seattle and points in Kitsap County located on three _ separate routes. One route, which includes Harper, Colby, Manchester and other points southwest. of Seattle, has a NTONPLOW Fic. 2.--LAUNCHING THE STEAMER Hyak aT PortTLAND, ORE.