Vashon Navigation Company

Defunct 20th century shipping company
Vashon Navigation Company
Founded1905
HeadquartersDockton, Washington

The Vashon Navigation Company was a shipping company that operated steamboats on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. Steamboats owned by the company included Norwood and the propeller steamer Vashon. The company was founded by steamboat captain Chauncey "Chance" Wiman (whose wife Gertrude also held a steamboat master's license) and John Manson, of Dockton, who was a steamboat captain and an engineer.

References

  • Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6
  • Newell, Gordon, Ships of the Inland Sea, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR (2nd Ed. 1960)
  • Newell, Gordon, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)
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Wood
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  • Cyrus Walker
  • Eliza Anderson
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  • King County
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  • Leschi
  • North Pacific
  • Ocean Wave
  • Olympia
  • Olympian
  • T.J. Potter
  • Wilson G. Hunt
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  • Alice (1897)
  • C.C. Cherry
  • Cyrus Walker
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  • Rabboni
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  • Richard Holyoke
  • Ruth
  • Wallowa
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  • City of Sacramento
  • Beeline
  • Fortuna
  • Sioux
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  • City of Mukilteo
  • City of Seattle
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  • King County
  • Leschi
  • West Seattle
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