Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The steamboat Urania was a vessel that operated on Lake Washington in the first part of the 20th Century. Built of wood, the vessel burned and sank in 1914. In 2002, the wreck was found and photographed by divers. Urania was built in 1907 on Lake Washington, for Captain John Anderson, to join his fleet of steamboats on Lake Washington, operating under the name of the Anderson Steamboat Company. She was 85 feet long. Urania was the Greek name for the muse of astronomy and astrology Captain Anderson named his vessels after classical gods, starting with Xanthus and Cyrene. Urania was similar to but slightly smaller than another Anderson vessel, Fortuna, built in 1906. Captains Wells Green and C.R. Hall were two of Urania''s masters.