''Messenger'' was a sternwheel steamboat of the

Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet The Puget Sound mosquito fleet was a multitude of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound and nearby waterways and rivers. This large group of Steamboat, steamers and sternwheelers plied the wat ...

Career

''Messenger'' was built in 1876 at

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. The vessel had separate cabins for men and women, and worked in the south

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area, sometimes in competition with ''Zephyr''. ''Messenger'' was destroyed by fire in 1907 while docked at

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References

* Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, ''Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound'', (2008) Arcadia Publishing 1876 ships Steamboats of Washington (state) Passenger ships of the United States Sternwheelers of Washington (state) {{ship-stub