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The steamboat Dart operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet..

Construction

Dart was built in 1911 by Matthew McDowell at Tacoma for his steamboat line’s Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass run.^[1] Dart a small vessel even by Mosquito Fleet standards, was 57.4' long, 17.4' on the beam, drew 5.2' and was rated at 74 tons.

Operations and conversion to motor vessel

Dart ran on the Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass route until about 1918, when Captain McDowell sold her to the Wrangell concern of W.T. Hale and P.C. McCormick, who converted her to a motor vessel to run mail between Wrangell and Prince of Wales Island. Later, Dart was sold to Paul S. Charles of Ketchikan.interests. ^[2]

Loss

In 1925, Dart was purchased by the Anderson Tug Company and returned to Puget Sound to operate in tug work. In 1928, she burned on the Sound while awaiting scrapping. Her engines were salvaged and placed in the ferry City of Mukilteo. Her hull, still good apparently, was rebuilt as a diesel freighter and sent to work routes out of Juneau.^[3][4]

See also

Matthew McDowell

Notes

External links

Historic images from the on-line collection of the University of Washington

• Dart approaching a landing on Puget Sound, circa 1915, a good view of this very small steamer

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