Vashon (1905 steamboat)

Vashon and other vessels at Tacoma circa 1912

History
Name| Vashon
Owner| Vashon Navigation Company
Route| Puget Sound
Completed| 1905, Dockton
Out of service| 1930
Fate| Dismantled.
General characteristics
Length| 94 ft (28.7 m)
Installed power| steam engine
Propulsion| propeller

Vashon was a wooden steamboat built in 1905 at Dockton, Washington on Vashon Island. The vessel was active on Puget Sound in the early decades of the 1900s. Vashon should not be confused with the sternwheeler Vashon which also ran on Puget Sound.

## Career

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Vashon was built for the Vashon Navigation Company which was then engaged in fierce competition with the Tacoma and Burton Navigation Company for the freight and passenger business on the steamboat routes in the Tacoma and Vashon Island areas of Puget Sound. Vashon was the first steamboat constructed by the Martinolich Shipbuilding Company, which in 1904, under the company's founder, John Martinolich, a Croatian immigrant, had set up a shipyard on Vashon Island at the small settlement of Dockton.

The Vashon Navigation Company intended Vashon to replace their steamer Norwood which had not performed well against the Burton, a new vessel placed in service in 1905 by the rival Tacoma and Burton Navigation Co. Vashon competed with Burton, and later Burton's replacement, Magnolia by racing from landing to landing trying to be the first to pick up passengers or embark freight. By 1909, the rivalry had died down when Magnolia was transferred to other routes.

Vashon was dismantled in 1930.

## References

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* Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6
* Newell, Gordon, Ships of the Inland Sea, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960)
* Newell, Gordon, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)

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Steamboats of Puget Sound and western Washington State

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Ships of the Mosquito Fleet

Propellers|

| Wood|

* Albion
* Alice (1897)
* Alice Gertrude
* Annie M. Pence
* Aquilo (steamship)
* Aquilo (yacht)
* Arcadia
* Atlanta
* Audrey
* Bay Island
* Bellingham
* Burton
* C.C. Calkins
* C.C. Cherry
* Calista
* Camano
* Clallam
* Commander
* Concordia
* Crest
* Crystal
* Daring
* Dart
* Dauntless
* Defiance
* Dix
* Dode
* Dove
* Eagle
* Elfin
* Elk
* El Primero
* Elsinore
* Fleetwood
* Florence K
* Fortuna
* Flyer
* General Miles
* Hattie Hansen
* Hector
* Hyak
* Ilwaco
* Inland Flyer
* Iola
* Island Princess
* Islander
* Katherine
* L.T. Haas
* Lady of the Lake
* Magnolia
* Mizpah
* Monticello 2
* Otter
* Quickstep
* Rosalie
* Sentinel
* Triton
* Urania
* Vashon
* Verona
* Victor
* Virginia V
* Willapa

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Steel|

* Aquilo (yacht)
* City of Sacramento
* Coho
* Duwamish
* El Primero
* Jessie Banning
* Kulshan
* Potlatch
* Sioux
* Sol Duc
* Tacoma

Sternwheelers|

* Bailey Gatzert
* Capital City
* Chehalis
* City of Shelton
* Clara Brown
* Comet
* Daisy
* Elwood
* Enterprise (1855)
* Emma Hayward
* Fairhaven
* Fidalgo
* Greyhound
* Hassalo (1880)
* Henry Bailey
* Irene
* Messenger
* Monte Cristo
* Multnomah
* Northern Light
* Old Settler
* Olympian
* Otter
* S.G. Simpson
* Teaser
* Telegraph
* Triumph
* Wenat
* WT Preston
* Zephyr

Sidewheelers|

* Alaskan
* Beaver
* Cyrus Walker
* Eliza Anderson
* Fairy
* George E. Starr
* Idaho
* King County
* Kirkland
* Leschi
* North Pacific
* Ocean Wave
* Olympia
* Olympian
* T.J. Potter
* Wilson G. Hunt
* West Seattle
* Yosemite

Steam tugs|

* Alice (1897)
* C.C. Cherry
* Cyrus Walker
* Duwamish
* Echo
* Elk
* Goliah (1849)
* Goliah (1907)
* Hector
* Rabboni
* Portland (1875)
* Richard Holyoke
* Ruth
* Wallowa

Steam ferries|

| Converted|

* Bailey Gatzert
* City of Sacramento
* Beeline
* Fortuna
* Sioux

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Purpose-built|

* City of Clinton
* City of Mukilteo
* City of Seattle
* Issaquah
* King County
* Leschi
* West Seattle

Motor vessels|

* Alverene
* Bainbridge
* Carlisle II
* Coho
* Falcon
* Lotus
* Speeder
* Suquamish

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Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet companies, shipyards, and personnel

Companies|

| Passenger
and freight|

* Angeles Brewing & Malting Co.
* Black Ball Line
* Hale Pass. & Wollochet Bay Nav. Co.
* Hansen Trans. Co.
* Hunt Bros.
* Island Trans. Co.
* Kitsap County Trans. Co.
* La Conner Trading & Trans. Co.
* McDowell Trans. Co.
* Merchants Trans. Co.
* Moe Bros.
* Oregon Rwy & Nav. Co.
* Oregon Steam Navig. Co.
* Puget Sound Nav. Co.
* Pacific Coast Steamship
* Straits Steamship Co.
* Vashon Nav. Co.

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Towing|

Pacific Tow Boat Co.

Ferry|

* Kitsap County Trans. Co.
* Oreg. & Wash. Ferry & Nav. Go.
* Puget Sound Nav. Co.
* West Seattle Land & Improv. Co.

Shipyards|

* Crawford & Reid
* J.F. Duthie
* Holland
* King & Winge
* Lake Washington
* Moran Bros.
* Martinolich

Personnel|

* William Ballard
* Thomas Coupe
* Joshua Green
* Matthew McDowell

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Steamboats in other areas

Articles by area|

| Washington|

* Lake Washington
* Columbia River
* Cowlitz River
* Grays Harbor
* Willapa Bay
* Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach)
* Lake Crescent

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Oregon|

* Columbia River
* Willamette River
* Oregon Coast
* Yaquina Bay
* Coquille River
* Coos Bay

British Columbia|

* Upper Fraser River
* Lakes Route
* Arrow Lakes
* Okanagan Lake
* Upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers
* Skeena River
* Stikine River
* Peace River

Alaska and Yukon|

Yukon River

Other|

Mackenzie River

Navboxes|

* Columbia River
* British Columbia
* California

Lists of vessels|

* List of ships in British Columbia
* List of steamboats on the Columbia River

Further information: Washington State Ferries

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Puget Sound propellers

Wooden
hulls|

* Albion
* Alice (1897)
* Alice Gertrude
* Annie M. Pence
* Aquilo (steamship)
* Audrey
* Bay Island
* Bellingham
* Burton
* C.C. Cherry
* Calista
* Commander
* Clallam
* Crest
* Crystal
* Daring
* Dart
* Dauntless
* Defiance
* Dix
* Dode
* Dove
* Elfin
* Elk
* Elsinore
* Fleetwood
* Florence K
* Fortuna
* Flyer
* General Miles
* Hattie Hansen
* Hector
* Hyak
* Inland Flyer
* Iola
* Island
* Islander
* Katherine
* L.T. Haas
* Lady of the Lake
* Magnolia
* Mizpah
* Monticello 2
* Otter
* Quickstep
* Rosalie
* Sentinel
* Triton
* Urania
* Vashon
* Verona
* Victor
* Virginia V
* Willapa

Iron or
steel hulls|

* Aquilo (yacht)
* El Primero
* M/V Coho
* Duwamish
* Tacoma

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