The Vashon Navigation Company was a shipping company that operated steamboats on

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in the early 1900s. Steamboats owned by the company included ''Norwood'' and the propeller steamer ''Vashon''. The company was founded by steamboat captain Chauncey "Chance" Wiman (whose wife Gertrude also held a steamboat master's license) and John Manson, of Dockton, who was a steamboat captain and an engineer.

References

* Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, ''Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound'', (2008) Arcadia Publishing * 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) Ferry companies based in Washington (state) Defunct shipping companies based in Washington (state) {{US-shipping-company-stub