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List of Puget Sound steamboats

This is a list of steamboats and related vessels which operated on Puget Sound and in western Washington state. This should not be considered a complete list. Information for some vessels may be lacking, or sources may be in conflict.

Table codes key

Vessel type codes are: Prop = propeller-driven; stern = sternwheel-driven; side = side-wheel driven; pddl or paddle = paddle-driven, sternwheel or sidewheel.<br> Disposition codes used in this list are:

  • A = Abandoned.
  • B = Burned
  • C = Converted; C-B = Converted to barge; C-D = converted to diesel engine; C-F = Converted to ferry; C-G = Converted to gasoline engine; C-H = Converted to house; C-S = converted to sailing vessel.
  • F = Foundered at sea;
  • G = Grounded (total loss).
  • L = Laid up.
  • M = Museum as of 2011.
  • N = Name change
  • O = Operational as of date given.
  • R = renamed..
  • S = sank.
  • T = Transferred; T-AK = Transferred to Alaska; T-BC = Transferred to British Columbia; T-CA = Transferred to California; T-OR = Transferred to Oregon or to Columbia River; T-CB = Transferred to Coos Bay; T-GH = Transferred to Grays Harbor
  • W = Wrecked by collision or striking ground;
  • X = Explosion of boiler.
  • Gr = gross tons; Reg = registered tons.

Vessels should not be assumed to have served continuously on Puget Sound during the periods shown on this chart; transfer between service areas was common.

Mosquito fleet list

Ships built for service elsewhere

Gasoline and naphtha launches

Ocean-going steam tugs

Name changes

Source conflicts

Notes

References

  • Affleck, Edwin L, ed. A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000)
  • Carey, Roland, The Steamboat Landing on Elliott Bay, Alderbrook Publishing, Seattle, WA 1962
  • Carey, Roland, The Sound of Steamers, Alderbrook Publishing, Seattle, WA 1965
  • Downs, Art, Paddlewheels on the Frontier: The Story of British Columbia and Yukon Sternwheel Steamers, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA (1972)
  • Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985
  • Feagans, Raymond J., The Railroad that Ran by the Tide -- Ilwaco Railroad & Navigation Company of the State of Washington, Howell-North, Berkeley, CA 1972
  • Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing
  • Goodwin, Helen Durrie, "Shipbuilding in the Northwest", The Washington Historical Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul. 1920), pages 183–201 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40474592.
  • Harlan, George H., San Francisco Bay Ferryboats, Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA ; LoC Card # 67-20998
  • Kline, M.S., and Bayless, G.A., Ferryboats -- A legend on Puget Sound, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983
  • Newell, Gordon, Ships of the Inland Sea, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960)
  • Newell, Gordon, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)
  • Newell, Gordon R., Pacific Tugboats, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA (1957)
  • Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
  • Turner, Robert D., Pacific Princesses – An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Pacific Northwest Coast, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, B.C., 1977

Government documents