Daring (1909 steamboat) explained

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 98feet long and rated at .

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 in Burrard Inlet.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 159, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
2. Web site: Clinton . The New Mills List . Queens University . 21 April 2014 . Konston, Ontario . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140423044551/http://db.library.queensu.ca/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll?AC=GET_RECORD&XC=%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpub.dll&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.library.queensu.ca%2Fmarmus%2Fmills%2Findex.html&TN=mills&SN=AUTO5257&SE=1104&RN=3&MR=20&TR=0&TX=1000&ES=1&CS=1&XP=&RF=Milltab&EF=Basic+Record+Form&DF=Milllng&RL=0&EL=1&DL=0&NP=3&ID=&MF=mymsg.ini&MQ=&TI=0&DT=&ST=0&IR=7451&NR=0&NB=0&SV=0&SS=1&BG=bccee2&FG=008080&QS=index&OEX=ISO-8859-1&OEH=ISO-8859-1 . 23 April 2014 .
3. News: Will Probe the Sinking of Tug. 21 April 2014. Vancouver Daily World. 18 January 1922.