''Betty Earles'' was a small gasoline-powered vessel built in 1913 on Lake Crescent, Washington. The vessel was transferred to

Puget Sound Puget Sound ( ; ) is a complex estuary, estuarine system of interconnected Marine habitat, marine waterways and basins located on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Washington (state), Washington. As a part of the Salish Sea, the sound ...

in about 1919 and remained in service there until at least 1958.

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In 1913, Michael Earles, owner of the Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort, built the gasoline-launch ''Betty Earles'' (named after his daughter) on

Lake Crescent Lake Crescent is a deep lake located entirely within Olympic National Park in Clallam County, Washington, United States, approximately west of Port Angeles on U.S. Route 101, near the small community of Piedmont. With an official maximum ...

to transport his guests bound for his resort from the head of the lake to Fairholm, at the western end, where they would disembark and ride motor buses to his resort. The boat was large for the lake, long, on the beam, with an heavy-duty Frisco Standard engine. – a small scale plan of the ''Betty Earles'' Michael Earles' Sol Duc lodge burned down around 1918, and he moved ''Betty Earles'' off Lake Crescent to serve on Puget Sound under the command of Captain O. G. Olson. In 1924, ''Betty Earles'' was sold to Tacoma Tug & Barge Co. ''Betty Earles'' was still in service as a tug as late as 1958, still under the old name

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