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The steamboat Dauntless operated in
the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito
Fleet.
Construction
Dauntless was built in 1899 by Matthew McDowell
at Tacoma
to replace the Defiance (I) on the Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass run. Dauntless
was 93' long and rated at 91 tons.
Sale to Moe
Brothers
In 1900, Captain McDowell built a newer and larger Defiance (II) at Tacoma,
and sold Dauntless to the Moe Brothers, who put her in the
Bainbridge Island service. [1]
Sale
to Hastings and Mann
In 1902, the Moe Brothers sold Dauntless to L.B.
Hastings and Captain Mann, of Port Townsend.
They put Dauntless on the Port Townsend-Irondale run. A steel mill at Irondale
caused that town to boom, and Dauntless, still capable of
11-knot speed, made quick trips on this route.[2]
Loss
On December 30, 1923, a storm caused Dauntless to break
loose from her moorings at Appletree Cove. She was blown across the
sound and washed up on the beach at Meadow Point, breaking up on
the beach.[3][4]
Notes
- ^
Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the
Pacific Northwest, at 49 and 60, Superior Publishing, Seattle,
WA 1966 (showing photo of Dauntless)
- ^
McCurdy, at 76
- ^
McCurdy, at 343
- ^
Newell, Gordon R., and Williamson, Joe, Pacific
Steamboats, at 120, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1958
(showing photo of Dauntless)
See also
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