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.
History
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

  1. Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 159, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
  2. "Clinton". The New Mills List. Konston, Ontario: Queens University. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  3. "Will Probe the Sinking of Tug". Vancouver Daily World. 18 January 1922. Retrieved 21 April 2014.


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