SS Rose Standish at Dock 1912 - Colorized Update

The S.S. Rose Standish was a coastal passenger vessel built in 1912 and operated by the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company of Boston. On a July day in 1914, she led a parade of ships through the canal. The celebratory mood was likely tempered by news breaking about events the previous day, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, marking the beginning of World War One. Almost exactly four years after the canal opened that war would impact the canal itself when a German U-Boat surfaced off Orleans and fired on a tug towing barges. That prompted the United States Army Corps of Engineers to take over the struggling private Cape Cod Canal so ships wouldn't have to take the more dangerous route around the cape. The S.S. Rose Standish would be in service into the 1930's. After Alexanders map