Puget Sound & Discovery Bay
Sheltered inland waters, timber ports and burning steamers
Puget Sound carried the timber, coal and passengers of the young Pacific Northwest, and its narrow, fog-prone waters collected a heavy toll of steamers, schooners and barges.
From the 1850s onward, wooden steamers stitched together Seattle, Port Townsend, Tacoma and the mill towns of Discovery Bay. Collisions in fog, fires at the dock and winter gales sent dozens of vessels down within sight of land, and several of their hulls have since been located and surveyed in the cold green water.
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Records in These Waters
RegisteredA.J. Fuller
AH-WR-0181Seattle, Washington
1918 · Sailing Ship · 240 ft deep
Historical ListingAlaska Reefer
AH-WR-0824Indian Island, Port Townsend Bay, Washington
1961 · Net Laying Ship / Fish Packer · 30-60 deep
AvailableAndelana
AH-WR-0176Tacoma, Washington
1899 · Sailing Ship · About 200 to 230 feet deep
AvailableAnna Foss
AH-WR-0741Vashon Island, Washington
1969 · Tugboat · 40 ft deep
AvailableBurton
AH-WR-0737Gig Harbor, Washington
1924 · Passenger Steamboat
AvailableCalista
AH-WR-0476West Point, Seattle, Washington
1922 · Inland Passenger Ferry
AvailableCamano
AH-WR-0830Bainbridge Island, Washington
1917 · Inland Steamboat
AvailableCity of Kingston
AH-WR-0177Tacoma, Washington
1899 · Steamship · About 280 to 300 feet deep
AvailableDode
AH-WR-0474Hood Canal, Washington
1910 · Inland Steamboat
AvailableEagle
AH-WR-0902Winslow, Bainbridge Island, Washington
1903 · Passenger Ferry
AvailableFairy
AH-WR-0898Steilacoom, Washington
1857 · Passenger Steamer
AvailableFleetwood
AH-WR-0899Dockton, Vashon Island, Washington
1898, after roughly a decade on Puget Sound · Express Passenger Steamer
AvailableMultnomah
AH-WR-0403Puget Sound, Washington
Date not established · Steamer
AvailableSequoia
AH-WR-0407Puget Sound, Washington
Date not established · Steamer
AvailableSS Admiral Sampson
AH-WR-0175Hansville, Washington
1914 · Steamship · 320 ft deep
AvailableSS Governor
AH-WR-0078Point Wilson, Port Townsend, Washington
1921 · Passenger Steamship
AvailableSS Kitsap
AH-WR-0901Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington
1910 · Passenger Steamer · 220 ft deep
AvailableSS Traveler
AH-WR-0897Foulweather Bluff, Washington
1858 · Passenger And Mail Steamer · 30 deep
AvailableT.W. Lake
AH-WR-0405Puget Sound, Washington
Date not established · Steamer
AvailableTolo
AH-WR-0180Everett, Washington
1917 · Steamboat · About 120 to 150 feet deep
AvailableVictor II
AH-WR-0475Point Defiance, Tacoma, Washington
1916 · Motor Launch
RegisteredWar Hawk
AH-WR-0174Discovery Bay, Washington
1883 · Clipper Ship · About 25 to 40 feet deep
AvailableYosemite
AH-WR-0833Port Orchard Narrows, Washington
1909 · Inland Steamboat
























































