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History
NameSentinel
OwnerHunt Bros.; Hansen Trans. Co.; Kitsap County Transportation Company
RoutePuget Sound
Completed1898
Out of service1928
FateScrapped 1928
General characteristics
Length100 ft (30 m) (approx.)
Installed powersteam engine
Propulsionpropeller

Sentinel was a small wooden propeller-driven steamship of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Career

Sentinel was built in 1898 for the Hunt Brothers, who ran a family steamboat business on Puget Sound. The Hunts ran the vessel to stops on Bay Island in southern Puget Sound, and also on a run to Seattle with mail stops on Vashon Island. The vessel was sold to Hansen Transportation Co. in 1903, rebuilt and widened so as to increase passenger capacity from 100 to 250. In 1921 Hansen Transportation sold the vessel to Ed Lorentz. In 1928, the vessel was scrapped and the engine installed in another steamboat, the Arcadia. Sentinel is reported to have belonged to the Kitsap County Transportation Company (KCTC) from 1905 to 1908, and to have been part of KCTC when it was formed.

Notes

  1. Kline and Bayless, Ferryboats - A Legend on Puget Sound, at page 352.

References

  • Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6
  • Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A., Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 ISBN 0-914515-00-4
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