The steamboat ''Defiance'' operated in the early 1900s as part of the
Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years this vessel was called ''Kingston''.
Career
''Defiance'' was built in 1901 by
Matthew McDowell at
Tacoma to replace the ''Dauntless'' on the
Seattle
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Tacoma-West Pass run. (McDowell sold ''Dauntless'' to the
Moe Brothers to run on their Bainbridge Island route.). ''Defiance'' was 93' long.
''Defiance'' originally ran in the Seattle-Tacoma-West Pass route. The steamer
''Glide'' also served this route as did later the ''
Virginia V
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''. In about 1913, ''Defiance'' was sold to the
Kingston Transportation Company, which renamed her ''Kingston'' and put her on a route between
Ballard, Washington
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Kingson.
[Newell and Williamson, ''Pacific Steamboats'', at 120.][Kline and Bayless, ''Ferryboats – A Legend on Puget Sound'', at 110, 166067, and 169.]
By about 1923, ''Kingston'' (ex-''Defiance'') had come under the ownership of the
Whidby Island Transportation Company, run by Captain F.G. Reeve and associates, and doing business as the Washington Route. The Washington Route operated ''Kingston'' and another steamer,
''F.G. Reeve'', from Seattle to Chico,
Silverdale and other points on the
Kitsap Peninsula
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Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 23,025 at the 2010 census and an estimated 25,298 in 2019, making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County.
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. Captain Reeve also placed ''Kingston'' and another steamer,
''Atalanta'', on the Seattle-
Coupeville route, this was in the fall of 1923.
[ In 1932, Kingston was sold by the Washington Route to Captain Charles West and others.
In 1933, ''Kingston'' was converted to diesel and outfitted with refrigerated compartments to run in the southeastern Alaska trade.][Newell, ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine Historyt'', at 425.] On May 20, 1933, on her first voyage north, ''Kingston'' (ex-''Defiance'') was wrecked in the Whitestone Narrows near Sitka
russian: Ситка
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, settlement_type = Consolidated city-borough
, image_skyline = File:Sitka 84 Elev 135.jpg
, image_caption = Downtown Sitka in 1984
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and became a total loss.[
]
See also
* Matthew McDowell
* Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
Notes
References
* Kline, M.S., and Bayless, G.A., ''Ferryboats – A Legend on Puget Sound'', Bayless Books, Seattle WA 1983
* Newell, Gordon R., and Williamson, Joe, ''Pacific Steamboats'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1958
* Newell, Gordon R., ''Ships of the Inland Sea'', Binford and Mort, Portland, Oregon (2nd Ed. 1960).
* Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
External links
Photograph of steamboat ''Defiance'' leaving Des Moines, WashingtonPhotograph of steamboat ''Defiance'', a typical example of a Mosquito Fleet craft
Steamboats of Washington (state)
Propeller-driven steamboats of Washington (state)
History of Washington (state)
Ships built in Tacoma, Washington
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