Daisy (steamboat)
Daisy was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on Puget Sound and the Skagit River from 1880 to 1897.
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Daisy |
| Route: | Puget Sound, Skagit River |
| In service: | 1880 |
| Out of service: | 1897 |
| Identification: | U.S. Registry #157006[1] |
| Fate: | Sank near Edmonds, WA[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | inland steamboat |
| Tonnage: | 97.87 regist.[1] |
| Length: | 80.5 ft (24.54 m)[1] |
| Beam: | 20.3 ft (6.19 m)[1] |
| Depth: | 4.9 ft (1.49 m) depth of hold[1] |
| Installed power: | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted; 40 indicated horsepower[1] |
| Propulsion: | sternwheel[1] |
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.[3][2]
Notes
- Affleck, Century of Paddlewheelers, at 94.
- McCurdy Marine History, at 23.
- "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.
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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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