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Messenger (sternwheeler)

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Name
  
Messenger

Completed
  
1876

Installed power
  
steam engines

Route
  
Puget Sound

Length
  
91 ft (27.7 m)

Propulsion
  
sternwheel

Messenger was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Career

Messenger was built in 1876 at Tumwater, Washington. The vessel had separate cabins for men and women, and worked in the south Puget Sound area, sometimes in competition with Zephyr. Messenger was destroyed by fire in 1907 while docked at Tacoma.

References

Messenger (sternwheeler) Wikipedia