Fairy (steamboat)

History
Sale notice for Fairy
Name:	Fairy
Route:	Puget Sound
In service:	1853
General characteristics
Installed power:	steam engine
Propulsion:	side wheels

Fairy was a small wooden sidewheel-driven steamship placed into service on Puget Sound in 1853. Fairy was the first steam-powered vessel to conduct regularly scheduled service on Puget Sound.

Career

Fairy was built in San Francisco and brought to Puget Sound in November 1853 on the deck of the sailing ship Sarah Warren. The vessel was placed on the Olympia to Seattle run.

References

Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6

Steamboats of Puget Sound and western Washington State

Ships of the Mosquito Fleet

Propellers

Wood	Albion Alice (1897) Alice Gertrude Annie M. Pence Aquilo (steamship) Aquilo (yacht) Arcadia Atlanta Audrey Bay Island Bellingham Burton C.C. Calkins C.C. Cherry Calista Camano Clallam Concordia Crest Crystal Daring Dart Dauntless Defiance Dix Dode Dove Eagle Elfin Elk El Primero Elsinore Fleetwood Florence K Fortuna Flyer General Miles Hattie Hansen Hector Hyak Inland Flyer Iola Island Princess Islander Katherine L.T. Haas Lady of the Lake Magnolia Mizpah Monticello 2 Otter Quickstep Rosalie Sentinel Triton Urania Vashon Verona Victor Virginia V Willapa

Steel	Aquilo (yacht) City of Sacramento Coho Duwamish El Primero Jessie Banning Kulshan Potlatch Sioux Sol Duc Tacoma

Sternwheelers

Sidewheelers

Steam tugs

Steam ferries

Converted	Bailey Gatzert City of Sacramento Beeline Fortuna Sioux

Purpose-built	City of Clinton City of Mukilteo City of Seattle Issaquah King County Leschi West Seattle

Motor vessels

Companies, shipyards, and personnel

Companies

Passenger and freight	Angeles Brewing & Malting Co. Black Ball Line Hale Pass. & Wollochet Bay Nav. Co. Hansen Trans. Co. Hunt Bros. Island Trans. Co. Kitsap County Trans. Co. La Conner Trading & Trans. Co. McDowell Trans. Co. Merchants Trans. Co. Moe Bros. Oregon Rwy & Nav. Co. Oregon Steam Navig. Co. Puget Sound Nav. Co. Pacific Coast Steamship Straits Steamship Co. Tacoma & Burton Nav. Co. Vashon Nav. Co.

Towing	Pacific Tow Boat Co.

Ferry	Kitsap County Trans. Co. Oreg. & Wash. Ferry & Nav. Go. Puget Sound Nav. Co. West Seattle Land & Improv. Co.

Shipyards

Personnel

Steamboats in other areas

Articles by area

Washington	Lake Washington Columbia River Cowlitz River Grays Harbor Willapa Bay Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach) Lake Crescent

Oregon	Columbia River Willamette River Oregon Coast Yaquina Bay Coquille River Coos Bay

British Columbia	Upper Fraser River Lakes Route Arrow Lakes Okanagan Lake Upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers Skeena River Stikine River Peace River

Alaska and Yukon	Yukon River

Other	Mackenzie River

Navboxes

Columbia River
British Columbia
California

Lists of vessels

related topic: Washington State Ferries

Puget Sound sidewheelers

Wood hulls	Beaver City of Seattle Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho North Pacific Ocean Wave T. J. Potter Wilson G. Hunt Yosemite

Iron hulls	Alaskan Olympian

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