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History
NameDaisy
RoutePuget Sound, Skagit River
In service1880
Out of service1897
IdentificationU.S. Registry #157006
FateSank near Edmonds, WA
General characteristics
TypeInland steamboat
Tonnage97.87 regist.
Length80.5 ft (24.54 m)
Beam20.3 ft (6.19 m)
Depth4.9 ft (1.49 m) depth of hold
Installed powertwin steam engines, horizontally mounted; 40 indicated horsepower
Propulsionsternwheel

Daisy was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on Puget Sound and the Skagit River from 1880 to 1897.

Career

Daisy was built at Seattle for the Washington Steamboat Company in 1880. The vessel was placed in service for the Skagit River trade. In 1897 Daisy sank near Edmonds, Washington, or on 12 October burned near Clinton, Washington.

Notes

  1. ^ Affleck, Century of Paddlewheelers, at 94.
  2. ^ McCurdy Marine History, at 23.
  3. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898". Washington: Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 21. Retrieved 31 March 2020 – via Haithi Trust.

References

  • Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicolls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
  • Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
  • Wright, E. W. (1895). Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co.
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