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Vashon Navigation Company
The Vashon Navigation Company was a shipping company that operated steamboats on Puget Sound Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected ma ... in the early 1900s. Steamboats owned by the company included ''Norwood'' and the propeller steamer ''Vashon''. The company was founded by steamboat captain Chauncey "Chance" Wiman (whose wife Gertrude also held a steamboat master's license) and John Manson, of Dockton, who was a steamboat captain and an engineer. References * Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, ''Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound'', (2008) Arcadia Publishing * 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) Ferry c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dockton, Washington
Dockton is an unincorporated community in King County, Washington. It is located on Maury Island, along Quartermaster Harbor. Although once an industrial center, Dockton today is a primarily residential area, with many commuters taking the ferry to nearby Tacoma. History Dockton, one of the first major settlements on the now-conjoined Vashon and Maury Islands, was an important shipbuilding center in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Puget Sound Dry Dock Company ship yard and drydock there from 1892 to 1909 was the largest on the West Coast of the United States.Vashon Island History: Dockton Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum. Accessed online 16 September 2009. The drydock was long and wide. After its closure, the Stucky and Martinolich yards continued shipbuilding and repair at Dockton. Over the years a nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puget Sound
Puget Sound ( ) is a sound of the Pacific Northwest, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea. It is located along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and two minor connections to the open Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca—Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and Deception Pass and Swinomish Channel being the minor. Water flow through Deception Pass is approximately equal to 2% of the total tidal exchange between Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Puget Sound extends approximately from Deception Pass in the north to Olympia in the south. Its average depth is and its maximum depth, off Jefferson Point between Indianola and Kingston, is . The depth of the main basin, between the southern tip of Whidbey Island and Tacoma, is approximately . In 2009, the term Salish Sea was established by the United States Board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwood (steamboat)
Norwood may refer to: Places Australia * Norwood, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide ** Norwood Football Club, an Australian rules football club *Electoral district of Norwood, a state electoral district in South Australia * Norwood, Tasmania, a suburb of Launceston, Tasmania * Norwood, a neighborhood in Ringwood North, Victoria * Norwood, a former name for Burwood, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Canada * Norwood, Nova Scotia, a community * Norwood, Ontario, near Peterborough * Norwood (Edmonton), a neighbourhood in north-central Edmonton, Alberta England * Norwood, Derbyshire * Norwood, North Yorkshire, a civil parish * Norwood (UK Parliament constituency), south London * Norwood (ward), Metropolitan Borough of Sefton * Norwood Green, in the London Borough of Ealing * Norwood (London County Council constituency) * Norwood Ridge, a ridge in south London * Norwood, an early name for the parish of Southall * South Norwood, in the London Borough of Croydon * Upper Norw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vashon (steamboat 1905)
''Vashon'' was a wooden steamboat built in 1905 at Dockton, Washington on Vashon Island. The vessel was active on Puget Sound in the early decades of the 1900s. ''Vashon'' should not be confused with the sternwheeler ''Vashon'' which also ran on Puget Sound. Career ''Vashon'' was built for the Vashon Navigation Company which was then engaged in fierce competition with the Tacoma and Burton Navigation Company for the freight and passenger business on the steamboat routes in the Tacoma and Vashon Island areas of Puget Sound. ''Vashon'' was the first steamboat constructed by the Martinolich Shipbuilding Company, which in 1904, under the company's founder, John Martinolich, a Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capit ...n immigrant, had set up a shipyard on Vashon Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferry Companies Based In Washington (state)
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
