D.R. Campbell

Campbell was a sternwheel steamboat built in Seattle in 1898 which ran on the Yukon and tributary rivers in Alaska.

Named for David Rae Campbell (1830–1911), a Maine wool manufacturer who financed the Seattle-Yukon Transportation Co. D.R.

These vessels were built to take advantage of the huge demand for inland shipping that was caused by the Klondike Gold Rush.

[1] The long voyage to the mouth of the Yukon River on the Bering Sea was difficult and one of the vessels (Western Star) was wrecked en route.

White Pass sold the Campbell, and the vessel was abandoned by its new owner at St. Michael Canal, Alaska in 1927.