The steamboat ''Dart'' operated in the early 1900s as part of the
Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.
Career
''Dart'' was built in 1911 by
Matthew McDowell at
Tacoma for his steamboat line's
Seattle
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Tacoma-East Pass run. ''Dart'' a small vessel even by Mosquito Fleet standards.
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''Dart'' ran on the Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass route until about 1918, when Captain McDowell sold her to the Wrangell concern of W.T. Hale and P.C. McCormick, who converted ''Dart'' to a motor vessel to run mail between Wrangell and Prince of Wales Island. Later, he sold ''Dart'' to Paul S. Charles of Ketchikan interests.][Newell, ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History'', at 189, 298-99, and 389]
In 1925 the Anderson Tug Company purchased ''Dart'' and returned her to Puget Sound to operate as a tug. In 1928 ''Dart'' burned on the Sound while awaiting scrapping. Her engines were salvaged and placed in the ferry ''City of Mukilteo''. Her hull, still good apparently, was rebuilt as a diesel freighter and sent to work routes out of Juneau
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.[Faber, ''Steamer's Wake'', at 144.]
See also
* Matthew McDowell
* Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
Notes
References
* Faber, Jim, ''Steamer's Wake'', Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 .
* Newell, Gordon R., and Williamson, Joe, ''Pacific Steamboats'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1958.
* Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
External links
University of Washington digital library image showing ''Dart'' approaching a landing on Puget Sound, circa 1915, a good view of this very small steamer
Steamboats of Washington (state)
History of Washington (state)
Propeller-driven steamboats of Washington (state)
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