Kitsap County Transportation Company
The Kitsap County Transportation Company was an important steamboat and ferry company that operated on Puget Sound. The company was founded in 1898 as the Hansen Transportation Company. Hansen Transportation The Kitsap County Transportation Company grew out of a business known as the Hansen Transportation Company. The founder of Hansen Transportation was Capt J.J. Hansen who moved to Tacoma from Minnesota in 1888. In Minnesota, and later in Boxton, North Dakota, J.J. Hansen had been in the business of selling farm equipment. J.J. Hansen had two sons who joined him in the steamboat business, Captains Henry A. Hansen and Ole L. Hansen (1875–1940), as well as a son-in-law, Capt. Alf Hostmark. The business was formally organized in 1898, but started earlier.Kline and Bayless, ''Ferryboats'', at 107-108. Hansen Transportation initially acquired the steamer ''Quickstep'' and put it on the mail route between Port Madison and Poulsbo. Business proved good, and the business was ...
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Poulsbo, Washington
Poulsbo ( ) is a city on Liberty Bay in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is the smallest of the four cities in Kitsap County. The population was 9,200 at the 2010 census and an estimated 10,927 in 2018. The area was historically inhabited by the Suquamish people, many of whom moved to the Port Madison Indian Reservation after the signing of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855. Poulsbo was founded in the 1880s by Norwegian immigrant Jørgen Eliason, who was joined by other Scandinavians who relocated from the Midwestern states. They were drawn here by the availability of land, by the area's rich resources, and by a landscape similar to their native home. The settlement was connected by boats to other areas of the region, including the Puget Sound mosquito fleet, which was eventually usurped by highways built in the early 20th century. Modern-day downtown Poulsbo maintains a Scandinavian theme to honor its early immigrant history and is a popular regional tourist des ...
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Kitsap (steamboat)
Kitsap may refer to: *Kitsap County, Washington *Kitsap Peninsula, a peninsula in western Washington state, lying between Hood Canal and Puget Sound. *Chief Kitsap, a Suquamish Indian for whom the county was named *Naval Base Kitsap, a US Navy base located in Kitsap County, Washington *Kitsap Beach, a town now known as Indianola, Washington *Kitsap BlueJackets, baseball team in Bremerton, Washington *Kitsap Transit Kitsap Transit is a public transit agency serving Kitsap County, Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The system is based in Bremerton and operates bus service on 40 fixed routes, a foot ferry, a vanpool system, worker-driver servi ...

Grand Trunk Pacific Dock
The Grand Trunk Pacific dock was a shipping pier in Seattle, Washington. The original pier was built in 1910 and was destroyed in a fire in 1914. The pier was then rebuilt and continued in existence until 1964, when it was dismantled. The area where the pier stood is now part of the Seattle terminal of the Washington State Ferry system. Location The Grand Trunk Pacific dock was located at the foot of Madison Street.Beaton, Welford, ed. ''Frank Waterhouse & Company's Pacific Ports: A Commercial Geography'' (1917), at pages 27-37.
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Ferry Dock Company
A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi. Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. Ship connections of much larger distances (such as over long distances in water bodies like the Mediterranean Sea) may also be called ferry services, and many carry vehicles. History In ancient times The profession of the ferryman is embodied in Greek mythology in Charon, the boatman who transported souls across the River Styx to the Underworld. Speculation that a pair of oxen propelled a ship having a water wheel can be found in 4th century Roman literature "''Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis''". Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work ...
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Puget Sound Freight Lines
Puget may refer to: *Puget (surname) *Puget, Vaucluse, a commune in France *Puget, Washington, a community in the United States See also *Puget Creek *Puget Island *Puget Sound *Puget-Ville Puget-Ville (; oc, Puget Vila) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Administration Max Bastide was elected in 2001 and re-elected in 2008. In 2014, Catherine Altare was elected. S ...

Suquamish, Washington
Suquamish is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 4,140 at the 2010 census. Comprising the Port Madison Indian Reservation, it is the burial site of Chief Seattle and the site of the Suquamish tribe winter longhouse known as Old Man House. Geography Suquamish is located in northern Kitsap County at (47.730901, -122.564456), across Agate Passage from Bainbridge Island. The village of Suquamish is in the northeast part of the CDP, and Washington State Route 305 crosses the southern part, leading southeast across the Agate Pass Bridge to Bainbridge Island and west to Poulsbo. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Suquamish CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 10.21%, are water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 3,510 people, 1,459 households, and 948 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 513.1 people per square mile (198.1/km2). There were 1,580 housing uni ...
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Island Transportation Company (1904)
The Island Transportation Company was a shipping company that was briefly operational in Puget Sound from 1889 to 1900. Formation and operations The company was organized in April 1889 by Herbert F. Beecher, who had recently left the employment of the customs office, and others. The company purchased three smaller steamers, of the coastal or inland variety: the ''J.B. Libby'', ''Point Arena'', and ''General Miles''. These vessels were employed in northern Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands.Wright, ed., ''Lewis and Dryden Marine History'', at 119, 297, 364 and 372. The company suffered a major reverse when ''J.B. Libby'' got fire on November 10, 1889, while transporting a cargo of lime from Roche Harbor Roche Harbor is a sheltered harbor on the northwest side of San Juan Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States, and the site of a resort of the same name. Roche Harbor faces Haro Strait and the Canada–United States border. The harbor .... The vessel was a total ...
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Camano (steamboat)
''Camano'' was a steamboat built in 1906 at Coupeville, Washington which operated on Puget Sound from 1906 to 1917. ''Camano'' was later known as ''Tolo''. As ''Tolo'' the vessel was sunk in 1917 as a result of a collision at sea. Four people died as a result. Design and construction ''Camano'' was built by Capt. H.B. Lovejoy, doing business as the Island Transportation Company to run on the Everett – Coupeville, Washington shipping route as a replacement for the sternwheeler ''Fairhaven''. As built, ''Camano'' was longNewell, ed., ''McCurdy Marine History'', at 119, 135, 173, 189, 209 and 293. In 1910, ''Camano'' was rebuilt, after which the vessel had the following dimensions: , beam, and depth of hold. The vessel was kept on the Everett-Coupeville route however. In 1911, when the steamer ''Calista'' was built for Island Transportation Co., at Dockton, Washington, ''Camano'' towed the new steamer to Seattle for completion. Operations From 1906 to 1912 ''Camano'' ...
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Suquamish (motor Vessel)
''Suquamish'', built in 1914, was the first diesel-engined passenger vessel in the United States. Much later ''Suquamish'' was converted to a commercial fishing vessel and was registered as a Canadian vessel under the name ''Terry''. Nomenclature ''Suquamish'' was named after the town of Suquamish, which in turn was named after the Suquamish tribe, whose most famous member was Chief Seattle. ''Suquamish'' was also known as “ ''Hyak'''s pup”, after a much larger steamboat of the Kitsap County Navigation Company. Design and construction ''Suquamish'' was designed by Lee and Brinton and built at the John Wilson shipyard in Seattle. ''Suquamish'' was of all wooden construction, long, beam, depth of hold, a draft, 75 gross tons and 51 registered tons.Newell, ed., ''McCurdy Marine History'', at page 237. Suquamish cost $24,704 to construct.
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Kitsap II
Kitsap may refer to: *Kitsap County, Washington *Kitsap Peninsula, a peninsula in western Washington state, lying between Hood Canal and Puget Sound. *Chief Kitsap, a Suquamish Indian for whom the county was named *Naval Base Kitsap, a US Navy base located in Kitsap County, Washington *Kitsap Beach, a town now known as Indianola, Washington *Kitsap BlueJackets, baseball team in Bremerton, Washington *Kitsap Transit Kitsap Transit is a public transit agency serving Kitsap County, Washington, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The system is based in Bremerton and operates bus service on 40 fixed routes, a foot ferry, a vanpool system, worker-driver servi ...

Tolo (steamboat)
Tolo may refer to: * Tolo (surname) * Tolo (dance), a regional U.S. term for a type of school dance where females invite males * TOLO (TV channel), an Afghan TV station * Tiele people, a Turkic people in inner Asia before the 8th century * Tolo, an Aztec deity, for which Toluca was named. * Tolo, a cultivar of Karuka It may refer to the following places * Tolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo * Tolo, a place in Norheimsund, Norway * Tolo, Greece, a Greek village * Tolo, Guinea * Gulf of Tolo (Indonesian: ''Teluk Tolo''), a bay in Sulawesi, Indonesia * Tolo Channel, a channel in Hong Kong * Tolo Harbour, a sheltered harbour in Hong Kong * Tolo Highway Tolo Highway () is a major expressway on Route 9 in Hong Kong. It connects the new towns of Sha Tin and Tai Po in the eastern New Territories, forming part of the New Territories Circular Road. The highway, constructed in three stages betwe ..., an expressway in Hong Kong * Tölö, the Swedish collective name for the neig ...
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Vashon II
__NOTOC__ Vashon may refer to: Places *Vashon Island, an island in Puget Sound. *Vashon Municipal Airport on Vashon Island. *Vashon High School, a high school in St. Louis, Missouri *Vashon, Washington, the community on Vashon Island. * Vashon-Maury Island Community Council, representatives of Vashon and Maury Islands to the King County Council, Washington. People Given name *Vashone Adams (born 1973), American football player * Vashon Eagleson, American football coach * Vashon Neufville (born 1999), English footballer * Vashon James Wheeler (1898–1944), British airman during World War II Surname * George Boyer Vashon (1824–1878), American scholar, poet and abolitionist * James Vashon (1742–1827), British naval officer and namesake of Vashon Island * Mary Frances Vashon (1818–1854), American journalist and abolitionist * Susan Paul Vashon (1838–1912), American educator, abolitionist, and clubwoman Other * Vashon, a commercial vessel acquired by the U.S. Navy duri ...
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