Daring (steamboat 1909)
The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was later converted into a tug.
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History | |
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Name: | Daring |
Operator: | Chesley Tug Co. |
Route: | Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass |
Builder: | Crawford and Reid |
Laid down: | 1909 |
Launched: | 1909 |
Out of service: | 15 January 1922 |
Fate: | Sunk in Collision |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Tug |
Tonnage: | 163 tons |
Length: | 98' |
Construction
Daring was built at Tacoma in 1909 by the shipyard of Crawford and Reid for Matthew McDowell’s Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass route. Daring was 98' long and rated at 163 tons.
Later operations
From 1916 to 1918, Daring was operated as a tug by Chesley Tug Co. out of Seattle, and was then sold to Pacific Great Eastern Railway, Victoria, British Columbia and renamed Clinton.[1] On 15 January 1922 the tug Clinton was rammed and sunk by Canadian Pacific Railway ferry Princess Royal in Burrard Inlet.[2][3]
Notes
- ^ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 159, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
- ^ "Clinton". The New Mills List. Konston, Ontario: Queens University. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
- ^ "Will Probe the Sinking of Tug". Vancouver Daily World. 18 January 1922. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
External links
- Daring Historic images
- another view of Daring, showing classic lines of this small propeller steamer
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