Puget (steam ferry)

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Steamer Puget, Puget Mill Company Dock, Port Gamble, 1912.jpg
History
Name:Puget
Laid down: 1908
Fate: Abandoned, 1940
General characteristics
Type: inland steamboat
Installed power: steam engine
Propulsion: propeller

The steam ferry Puget operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. [1]

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References

  1. Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 324, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966.