.jpeg) Henry Bailey | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Henry Bailey |
| Completed | 1888[1] |
| Out of service | 1898 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| Notes | Machinery and upper works installed in new hull, resulting vessel was namedSkagit Queen[2][3] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Inland steamboat |
| Tonnage | 271.20 gross;[2] 209.59 net tons[1] |
| Length | 108.5 ft (33.07 m)[1] |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.62 m) |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, each with a bore of 12 inches (30.5 cm) and stroke 72 inches (182.9 cm)[3] |
| Propulsion | Sternwheel |
Henry Bailey was a sternwheel steamboat that operated on Puget Sound from 1888 to 1910. The vessel was named after Henry Bailey, a steamboat captain in the 1870s who lived inBallard, Washington.[1]
Henry Bailey was built atTacoma, Washington as the first vessel for thePacific Navigation Company.[1] The vessel was placed on a route which ran fromSeattle toSnohomish, viaEdmonds,Marysville,Mukilteo,Lowell.[2] At some point in the 1890s the name of the vessel was later changed toCity of Champaigne.[2][3] In 1898, atWest Seattle, the upper works and the machinery were removed and reinstalled in a new vessel, theSkagit Queen.[3]
In 1888, the officers of theHenry Bailey included Capt. Sam Denny, mate Peter Falk, Engineer Frank Zikmund, and purserJoshua Green. Green induced the other three men to join together in business, and they eventually formed, with the participation of George J. Willey, a hay ingrain merchant, to form the successful shipping concern known as theLa Conner Trading and Transportation Company.