 Tahoe circa 1906
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Owner | Duane Leroy Bliss |
| Builder | Union Iron Works |
| Yard number | 42 |
| Launched | 24 June 1896 |
| Fate | Scuttled 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steamship |
| Displacement | 154 tons |
| Length | 169 ft 9 in (51.74 m) |
| Beam | 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
| Depth | 9 ft 10+1⁄2 in (3.010 m) |
| Installed power | 2 × triple expansion steam engines 1,200 hp (890 kW) total |
| Propulsion | Twin 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m) screws |
| Speed | 18+1⁄2 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) |
| Capacity | 200 passengers |
SS Tahoe | |
| Location | Lake Tahoe |
| Nearest city | Glenbrook, Nevada |
| NRHP reference No. | 04000026 |
| Added to NRHP | February 11, 2004 |
SS Tahoe was a steamship that operated on Lake Tahoe at the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th. Scuttled in 1940, the wreck presently lies in 400 feet (120 m) of water off Glenbrook, Nevada.[1] The wreck was first visited in 2002 by a team from New Millennium Dive Expeditions (NMDE) in a record-setting high-altitude dive for Lake Tahoe. As a result of the work that NMDE did on the Tahoe site from 1999 up to their dives in 2002, Tahoe became the first maritime site in Nevada to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
- ^ Whaley, Sean (December 15, 2003). "Sunken Ship Eyed for Historic Register". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on April 12, 2004.