The steamboat Daring operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

The Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet was a large number of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound and nearby waterways and rivers. This large group of steamers and sternwheelers plied the waters of Puget Sound, stopping at every waterfront dock...

 and was later converted into a tug.

Construction

Daring was built at Tacoma in 1909 by the shipyard of Crawford and Reid

Crawford and Reid (shipbuilders)

The firm of Crawford and Reid was a ship building company that had a shipyard at Tacoma Washington in the first half of the 1900s. Vessels constructed by the yard included the passenger steamships Daring, Dix, Monticello 2, the sternwheeler S.G. Simpson, and the steam tugs Echo and USS Locust...

 for Matthew McDowell

Matthew McDowell (steamboat captain)

Matthew McDowell was a steamboat owner and builder associated with the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.-Background:McDowell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and left home at age 15 to work as a coal passer for steamers of the Anchor Line. He had three sons and one daughter, all of whom were associated...

’s Seattle-Tacoma-East Pass route. Daring was 98' long and rated at 163 tons.

Later operations

From 1916 to 1918, Daring was operated as a tug by Chesley Tug Co. out of Seattle, and was then sold to Victoria, B.C.|Victoria interests where she was run under the name Clinton.

Historic images from the on-line collection of the University of Washington

• Daring
• another view of Daring, showing classic lines of this small propeller steamer