''Messenger'' was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Career

''Messenger'' was built in 1876 at

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. The vessel had separate cabins for men and women, and worked in the south

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area, sometimes in competition with ''Zephyr''. ''Messenger'' was destroyed by fire in 1907 while docked at Tacoma.

References

* Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, ''Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound'', (2008) Arcadia Publishing 1876 ships Steamboats of Washington (state) Passenger ships of the United States Sternwheelers of Washington (state) {{ship-stub