Zephyr (steamboat) - Misplaced Pages

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History
Zephyr and work crew alongside on float
Name	Zephyr
Route	Puget Sound
Completed	1871
Out of service	1907
Fate	Sold for scrap 1907
General characteristics
Installed power	steam engines
Propulsion	sternwheel

Zephyr was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Career

Zephyr was built in 1871 for the famous steamboat captain Tom Wright. In 1872, the Merchants Transportation Company of Olympia was formed, with Zephyr becoming the company's first steamboat. The vessel was placed on the Olympia, Washington-Steilacoom-Tacoma-Seattle run, making way-stops en route, and competing with another sternwheeler, Messenger, and making the run on alternating days. In 1907, the vessel was sold for scrapping in Seattle.

References

Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6

Steamboats of Puget Sound and western Washington State

Ships of the Mosquito Fleet

Propellers

Wood

Steel

Sternwheelers

Sidewheelers

Steam tugs

Steam ferries

Converted	Bailey Gatzert City of Sacramento Beeline Fortuna Sioux
Purpose-built	City of Clinton City of Mukilteo City of Seattle Issaquah King County Leschi West Seattle

Motor vessels

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. Tacoma & Burton Nav. Co. Vashon Nav. Co.
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

Personnel

Steamboats in other areas

Articles by area

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

Lists of vessels

Further information: Washington State Ferries

v t e Puget Sound sternwheelers
Bailey Gatzert Capital City Chehalis City of Shelton Clara Brown Comet Daisy Enterprise (1855) Fairhaven Fidalgo Greyhound Hassalo (1880) Henry Bailey Irene Multnomah Northern Light Old Settler Otter S.G. Simpson Teaser Triumph WT Preston Zephyr

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