''Triumph'' was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the

Nooksack River The Nooksack River is a river in western Whatcom County of the northwestern U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington, draining Nooksack Valley, extensive valley systems within the North Cascades around Mount Shuksan, Mount Baker and the Twin ...

in Whatcom County, Washington in the 1890s.

Career

''Triumph'' is reported to have been built by Capt. Simon P. Randolph (d.1909 at Seattle), either 1889 at Lynden, WA or in 1892 at Whatcom. Randolph, who received his master's license in 1871, had been the first man to operate a steamboat on Lake Washington, had commanded or owned a number of smaller sternwheelers over his career including ''Fannie'', ''Old Settler'', ''Comet'', and the '' Edith R''. His son, Capt. Preston Brooks Randolph (1860–1939), was also involved in ownership and management of the later boats, including ''Triumph''. ''Triumph'' was served on the

, which the Randolphs had developed as a steamboat route. In 1897, ''Triumph'' was destroyed by fire near the town of Marietta, WA, in Whatcom County.

Notes

References

* 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., ''Pacific Steamboats'', Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1958)
Wright, E.W., ''Lewis & Dryden's Marine history of the Pacific Northwest'', Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR (1895)
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