List Of Puget Sound Steamboats

This is a list of steamboats and related vessels which operated on Puget Sound and in western Washington state. This should not be considered a complete list. Information for some vessels may be lacking, or sources may be in conflict.

Table codes key

Vessel type codes are: Prop = propeller-driven; stern = sternwheel-driven; side = side-wheel driven; pddl or paddle = paddle-driven, sternwheel or sidewheel.

Disposition codes used in this list are:
* A = Abandoned.
* B = Burned
* C = Converted; C-B = Converted to barge; C-D = converted to diesel engine; C-F = Converted to ferry; C-G = Converted to gasoline engine; C-H = Converted to house; C-S = converted to sailing vessel.
* F = Foundered at sea;
* G = Grounded (total loss).
* L = Laid up.
* M = Museum as of 2011.
* N = Name change
* O = Operational as of date given.
* R = renamed..
* S = sank.
* T = Transferred; T-AK = Transferred to Alaska; T-BC = Transferred to British Columbia; T-CA = Transferred to California; T-OR = Transferred to Oregon or to Columbia River; T-CB = Transferred to Coos Bay; T-GH = Transferred to Grays Harbor
* W = Wrecked by collision or striking ground;
* X = Explosion of boiler.
* Gr = gross tons; Reg = registered tons.

Vessels should not be assumed to have served continuously on Puget Sound during the periods shown on this chart; transfer between service areas was common.

Mosquito fleet list

Ships built for service elsewhere

Gasoline and naphtha launches

Ocean-going steam tugs

Name changes

Source conflicts

Notes

References

* Affleck, Edwin L, ed. ''A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska'', Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000)
* Carey, Roland, ''The Steamboat Landing on Elliott Bay'', Alderbrook Publishing, Seattle, WA 1962
* Carey, Roland, ''The Sound of Steamers'', Alderbrook Publishing, Seattle, WA 1965
* Downs, Art, ''Paddlewheels on the Frontier: The Story of British Columbia and Yukon Sternwheel Steamers'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA (1972)
* Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985
* Feagans, Raymond J., ''The Railroad that Ran by the Tide -- Ilwaco Railroad & Navigation Company of the State of Washington'', Howell-North, Berkeley, CA 1972
* Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, ''Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound'', (2008) Arcadia Publishing
* Goodwin, Helen Durrie, "Shipbuilding in the Northwest", ''The Washington Historical Quarterly'', Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jul. 1920), pages 183–20


* Harlan, George H., ''San Francisco Bay Ferryboats'', Howell-North Books, Berkeley, CA ; LoC Card # 67-20998
* Kline, M.S., and Bayless, G.A., ''Ferryboats -- A legend on Puget Sound'', Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983
* 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)
* Newell, Gordon R., ''Pacific Tugboats'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA (1957)
* Newell, Gordon R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
* Turner, Robert D., ''Pacific Princesses – An Illustrated History of Canadian Pacific Railway's Princess Fleet on the Pacific Northwest Coast'', Sono Nis Press, Victoria, B.C., 1977
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Government documents

* 1868
U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (for year ending June 30, 1868)
* 1879
U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (for year ending June 30, 1879)
*1884:
U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (for year ending June 30, 1884)
* 1894
U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (for year ending June 30, 1894)
* 1901
U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (for year ending June 30, 1901)
* 1909
U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (for year ending June 30, 1909)
* 1918
Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation, ''Seagoing Vessels of the United States'' (1918).
* 1922
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States'' (1922)

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