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The steamboat ''Defiance'' operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years this vessel was called ''Kingston''. ==Career== ''Defiance'' was built in 1901 by Matthew McDowell at Tacoma to replace the ''Dauntless'' on the Seattle-Tacoma-West Pass run. (McDowell sold ''Dauntless'' to the Moe Brothers to run on their Bainbridge Island route.). ''Defiance'' was 93' long. ''Defiance'' originally ran in the Seattle-Tacoma-West Pass route. The steamer ''Glide'' also served this route as did later the ''Virginia V''.〔Newell, ''Ships of the Inland Sea'', at 126.〕 In about 1913, ''Defiance'' was sold to the Kingston Transportation Company, which renamed her ''Kingston'' and put her on a route between Ballard, Washington and Kingson.〔Newell and Williamson, ''Pacific Steamboats'', at 120.〕〔Kline and Bayless, ''Ferryboats – A Legend on Puget Sound'', at 110, 166067, and 169.〕 By about 1923, ''Kingston'' (ex-''Defiance'') had come under the ownership of the Whidby Island Transportation Company, run by Captain F.G. Reeve and associates, and doing business as the Washington Route. The Washington Route operated ''Kingston'' and another steamer, ''F.G. Reeve'', from Seattle to Chico, Silverdale and other points on the Kitsap Peninsula and Bainbridge Island. Captain Reeve also placed ''Kingston'' and another steamer, ''Atalanta'', on the Seattle-Coupeville route, this was in the fall of 1923.〔 In 1932, Kingston was sold by the Washington Route to Captain Charles West and others. In 1933, ''Kingston'' was converted to diesel and outfitted with refrigerated compartments to run in the southeastern Alaska trade. 〔Newell, ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine Historyt'', at 425.〕 On May 20, 1933, on her first voyage north, ''Kingston'' (ex-''Defiance'') was wrecked in the Whitestone Narrows near Sitka and became a total loss.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Defiance (steamboat)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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