Crystal (steamboat)

Crystal
Career
Name:	Crystal
Route:	Puget Sound
Completed:	1904
General characteristics
Tonnage:	25
Length:	45 ft (13.7 m)
Installed power:	steam engine
Propulsion:	propeller
Notes:	converted to gasoline power

The steamboat Crystal operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.^[1]

Career

Crystal was a typical small steamer of the type that served small communities along Puget Sound. Crystal was built at Gig Harbor in 1904 for Miles Coffman. Crystal was propeller-driven, 45' long, and rated at 25 tons.^[2] Captain Coffman placed Crystal on the run between Tacoma and Wollochet Bay, until she was replaced on this run by Audrey. After that, Crystal was repowered with a 50 horsepower (37 kW) gasoline engine and transferred to Port Angeles.

Notes

1. ^ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 105, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
2. ^ McCurdy, at 105

References

• Newell, Gordon, Ships of the Inland Sea, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960)
• Newell, Gordon, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)

related topic: Washington State Ferries