Daring (steamboat 1909)

	The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was later converted into a tug.
History
Name	Daring
Operator	Chesley Tug Co.
Route	Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass
Builder	Crawford and Reid
Laid down	1909
Launched	1909
Out of service	15 January 1922
Fate	Sunk in collision 15 January 1922
General characteristics
Type	Tugboat
Tonnage	163 GRT
Length	98 ft (29.9 m)

Daring was a steamboat constructed in Tacoma, Washington in 1909. The vessel was later renamed Clinton and used as a tugboat. Clinton was rammed and sunk in 1922 in Burrard Inlet.

Construction

Daring was built at Tacoma in 1909 by the shipyard of Crawford and Reid for Matthew McDowell's Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass route. Daring was 98 feet (30 m) long and rated at 163 gross register tons (GRT).

Later operations

From 1916 to 1918, Daring was operated as a tug by Chesley Tug Co. out of Seattle, and was then sold to Pacific Great Eastern Railway, Victoria, British Columbia and renamed Clinton.^[1] On 15 January 1922 the tug Clinton was rammed and sunk by Canadian Pacific Railway ferry Princess Royal in Burrard Inlet.^[2]^[3]

Notes

^ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 159, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
^ "Clinton". The New Mills List. Konston, Ontario: Queens University. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
^ "Will Probe the Sinking of Tug". Vancouver Daily World. 18 January 1922. Retrieved 21 April 2014.

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[1] Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 159, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966

[2] "Clinton". The New Mills List. Konston, Ontario: Queens University. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.

[3] "Will Probe the Sinking of Tug". Vancouver Daily World. 18 January 1922. Retrieved 21 April 2014.

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History
The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was later converted into a tug.
Name	Daring
Operator	Chesley Tug Co.
Route	Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass
Builder	Crawford and Reid
Laid down	1909
Launched	1909
Out of service	15 January 1922
Fate	Sunk in collision 15 January 1922
General characteristics
Type	Tugboat
Tonnage	163 GRT
Length	98 ft (29.9 m)