Eagle (steamboat)

Eagle in Elliott Bay circa 1901.
History
Name	Eagle
Route	Puget Sound
In service	1900
Out of service	1902
Identification	US registry 136812
Fate	Destroyed by fire
General characteristics
Type	inland steamboat
Tonnage	40 gross, 23 net tons
Length	53.8 ft (16.40 m)
Beam	15.5 ft (4.72 m)
Depth	5.4 ft (1.65 m)
Installed power	steam engine
Propulsion	propeller

Eagle was a passenger steamboat built in 1900 which served on Puget Sound until it was destroyed by fire.

Eagle was a smaller type of steamboat called a "steam launch". The wooden vessel was built at Eagle Harbor, Washington to run on routes connecting Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington.^[1] Eagle was 53.8 feet (16.4 m) long, beam 15.5 feet (4.7 m), and a depth of hold of 5.4. The overall size of the vessel was 40 gross tons and 23 registered tons. The vessel's US steamboat registration number was 136812.^[2]

Eagle was destroyed by fire in 1902 at Eagle Harbor. The vessel was replaced in service by the Florence K.

• Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
• U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States (for year ending June 30, 1901)