Fidalgo (sternwheeler)

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Fidalgo
History
Name: Fidalgo
Route: Puget Sound
Completed: ca. 1920
Out of service: 1923
Fate: Wrecked.
General characteristics
Installed power: twin steam engines, horizontal mounted
Propulsion: sternwheel

Fidalgo was a sternwheel steam scow of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Career

Fidalgo was built in 1920, and was powered with engines removed from the wrecked or abandoned steamer Northern Light at Seattle. The vessel was built to haul grain from the La Conner area. In 1923 the vessel was destroyed in a storm at Seattle.

References

  • Newell, Gordon, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)

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