Daisy (steamboat)

Daisy was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on Puget Sound and the Skagit River from 1880 to 1897.

History
Name	Daisy
Route	Puget Sound, Skagit River
In service	1880
Out of service	1897
Identification	U.S. Registry #157006[1]
Fate	Sank near Edmonds, WA[2]
General characteristics
Type	Inland steamboat
Tonnage	97.87 regist.[1]
Length	80.5 ft (24.54 m)[1]
Beam	20.3 ft (6.19 m)[1]
Depth	4.9 ft (1.49 m) depth of hold[1]
Installed power	twin steam engines, horizontally mounted; 40 indicated horsepower[1]
Propulsion	sternwheel[1]

Career

Daisy was built at Seattle for the Washington Steamboat Company in 1880. The vessel was placed in service for the Skagit River trade. In 1897 Daisy sank near Edmonds, Washington, or on 12 October burned near Clinton, Washington.^[3][2]

Notes

1. Affleck, Century of Paddlewheelers, at 94.
2. McCurdy Marine History, at 23.
3. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1898". Washington: Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 21. Retrieved 31 March 2020 – via Haithi Trust.

References

• Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicolls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
• Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
• Wright, E. W. (1895). Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon: Lewis & Dryden Printing Co.