Daring (1909 steamboat)

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The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was later converted into a tug.
History
NameDaring
OperatorChesley Tug Co.
RouteSeattle-Tacoma-East Pass
BuilderCrawford and Reid
Laid down1909
Launched1909
Out of service15 January 1922
FateSunk in collision 15 January 1922
General characteristics
TypeTugboat
Tonnage163 GRT
Length98 ft (29.9 m)

Daring was a steamboat constructed in Tacoma, Washington in 1909. The vessel was later renamed Clinton and used as a tugboat. Clinton was rammed and sunk in 1922 in Burrard Inlet.

Construction[edit]

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 feet (30 m) long and rated at 163 gross register tons (GRT).

Later operations[edit]

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[edit]

  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.