Waialeale (steamboat)
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History | |
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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 (pronounced Wye-Ally-Ally) operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. She was known colloquially as "Weary Willy".[1]
Construction & Operations
[edit]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. In 1907 she was taken over by the Puget Sound Navigation Company. She was dismantled in Seattle in 1927.[1]
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