Northern Light (sternwheeler)

Northern Light at a pier.
History
Name	Northern Light
Route	Puget Sound
Completed	1898, Seattle
Out of service	1920
Identification	U.S. registry #130078
Fate	Abandoned or wrecked.
General characteristics
Tonnage	265 gross, 147 registered
Length	119.8 ft (36.5 m)
Beam	22.9 ft (7.0 m)
Depth	4.1 ft (1.2 m) depth of hold
Installed power	twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, 214 indicated horsepower
Propulsion	sternwheel

Northern Light was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and was active in the early 1900s.

Northern Light was built in 1898 at Seattle. The vessel was assigned to routes on southern Puget Sound, including the Anderson Island run. Northern Light was abandoned in 1920. The engines were removed and installed in the sternwheeler Fidalgo.

• Affleck, Edwin L, ed. A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC (2000) ISBN 0-920034-08-X
• Findlay, Jean Cammon and Paterson, Robin, Mosquito Fleet of Southern Puget Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6
• Newell, Gordon, and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)

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