AH-WR-0738

Falcon

Passenger And Freight Launch · United States · Lost After June 1919, exact year unknown · Lake Washington

A 1908 gasoline passenger launch that once ran Puget Sound ferry routes, found well preserved in 190 feet of Lake Washington in 2006.

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Artistic recreation based on recorded historical documents. See the documented evidence.

Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

Falcon was a wooden gasoline-powered launch built in 1908 at Bellingham for the Island Transportation Company, running between Bellingham and Anacortes and later serving other Puget Sound routes. She was sold to the Kitsap County Transportation Company in 1913 and retired from ferry service after 1919. How and when she came to Lake Washington is not documented, but she is believed to have joined Captain John Anderson's Lake Washington passenger fleet. She was discovered resting upright in about 190 feet of water near Kirkland in 2006, missing her wheelhouse, suggesting she was stripped and deliberately scuttled.

Vessel

Built: 1908
Registry: US Registry No. 204927
Builder: Not established
Yard: Bellingham, Washington
Material: Wood
Length: 85 ft
Beam: 16 ft
Tonnage: 46
Propulsion: Gasoline engine, single screw
Owners: Island Transportation Co.; Kitsap County Transportation Co.; Alki Point Transportation Co.

Loss

Date: After June 1919, exact year unknown
Cause: Intentional sinking
Location: Lake Washington, near Kirkland, Washington
Water: Lake Washington
Voyage: Not established
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Not established
Master: Not established

The Wreck Today

Depth: 190 ft
Condition: Well preserved in cold fresh water; hull upright with slight port list, passenger cabin intact, wheelhouse missing
Orientation: Not established
Discovered: 2006
Protection: Not established

Position

Coordinates: 47.68° N 122.21° W
Accuracy: General area only
Nearest: Kirkland, Washington
Region: Lake Washington

General area only: coordinate of Kirkland, Washington from the USGS Geographic Names Information System, marking the named place of loss recorded for this vessel ("Lake Washington, near Kirkland, Washington"), not a surveyed wreck position.