Daring (steamboat 1909)
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Daring
The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was later converted into a tug.
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 Victoria, B.C.|Victoria interests where she was run under the name Clinton.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 159, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
External links
- Daring Historic images
- another view of Daring, showing classic lines of this small propeller steamer
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