The Hale Passage and Wollochet Bay Navigation Company was a

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...

formed in 1912 by a group of 120 farmers for the purpose of pooling their resources to save shipping costs by purchasing a steamboat to ship their produce to market. The cooperative also intended to change the steamer's schedule to better fit the farmer's needs. In May 1912, the company bought the propeller steamer ''Crest'' from the Tacoma and Burton Navigation Company for $11,500. The company renamed the vessel ''Bay Ocean'' and hired Capt. Thomas Torgeson to run the vessel on a daily route between Arletta, Washington and Tacoma, stopping at ten intermediate landings along the way.Newell, ''McCurdy Marine History'', at 203.

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* Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966 Defunct shipping companies based in Washington (state) {{US-shipping-company-stub