American steamboat built in 1884
History Name Waialeale Route Tacoma -Vancouver Builder Hall Brothers In service 1884-1927 Fate Dismantled in Seattle, Washington General characteristics Type Inland steamboat Installed power steam engine Propulsion propeller
The Hawaiian schooner Waialeale Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet . She was known colloquially as "Weary Willy" [ 1]
Waialeale was built in 1884 by the Hall Brothers at Port Blakely . In 1905 the vessel was brought to Puget Sound by Cary Cook of Cook & Company and operated as a propeller steamer on the Tacoma -Vancouver run, replacing the Mainlander Puget Sound Navigation Company . She was dismantled in Seattle in 1927.[ 1]
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^ a b Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest , at 324, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966.
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