Talk:Puget Sound mosquito fleet

message: I just linked to this from the article Manette Peninsula.  I'll start working on it soon, please do not delete this article on the basis of notability.  The notability of the subject is obvious to those who know the history of the Puget Sound.  I'll set aside the article I was working on to start on this one.  But not today, it is already getting late. - Michael J Swassing (talk) 05:08, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: thanks!  add away, there's so much here that needs to be written.Mtsmallwood (talk) 19:10, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Please see USS Massachusetts (1845) and note the Puget Sound Content which I just added/expandeddc considerably; the reflink attached to the Col Ebey bit goes to a great historical page/site; there are cats I added which made me wonder if there shouldn't be "List of historical ships of Washington" or :Category:Ships in the Pacific Northwest or whatever; and or :Category:History of Puget Sound.  I know there's too many vessels to do a complete PacNW military-presence list; I'm thinking only of maybe territorial-era or some kind of cutoff point like WWI - ??  And I know this wasn't part of the Mosquito Fleet but it was a steamer (mtsmallwood pls note)...but this isn't a "steamboat article" though...Skookum1 (talk) 04:54, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: this is a great little site of historical essays and town histories, maybe some of you have already seen it; The site has an essay on Fort Spokane (here), which I googled up when I happened to find it a googlemap while looking up Tillicum Peak, near Metaline Falls (not noteworthy unless it has a story, despite being a "chinookonym"), but I'll take that up on WPWAtalk or on individual talk/article pages as it has to do with a whole bunch of things.Skookum1 (talk) 05:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow.  compare the fort spokane story linked just above with this other google hit and also this one, both from http://nps.gov ... is it just me or does the govt one seem censored, as if there had been no Indian Wars in these parts??  And no mention of the events in the other link??  I'll continue this on Talk:Yakima War I think; had some fixes to Treaty of Medicine Creek and should add the Battle of Port Gamble to Port Gamble.  Funny about the blankspots in teh public memory...Skookum1 (talk) 05:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yikes - this section of the USS Massachusetts (1845) article says after it was renamed the USS Farallones it was sold to a "Moore and Co." in San Francisco, in the later 1860s.  that's not the Capt Moore of Northwest steamboats is it?  Could this have been converted into one of the PacNW steamers?Skookum1 (talk) 05:44, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: territorial-era military steamers

message: Does the Marguerite count?  And/or other ships on the Victoria-Seattle runs?  Just c rossed my mind while looking at listed ships here....Skookum1 (talk) 21:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: here ya go, I'm off to the gym....Skookum1 (talk) 21:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Princess Marguerite and the other ships of the Princess Fleet need a separate article, I'd say. There were a number of similar vessels on the US side as well.  These would be coastal liners or day liners.  These ships really were in a class by themselves, much more durable, capable of ocean voyages, and much more expensive than your average 120 long wooden steamboat financed with who knows what and equipped with used steam engines.   Robert Turner's Pacific Princesses and Hacking and Lamb's The Princess Fleet are excellent sources for these vessels.  Newell and Williamson assembled a book mostly of photographs, called Coastal Liners which gives a good overview of these vessels.Mtsmallwood (talk) 03:07, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in the same context as the Mosquito Fleet, I've been wondering about the various vessels in the Gulf/Strait of Georgia and the lower part of the Inside passage; the old water taxi and passenger docks at the north ends of Cambie, Abbott, Carrall and Columbia were hopping places, especially on Friday afternoons one would expect; a lot of people commuted to/from Vancouver and places like Powell River and Sechelt and Squamish andSavary island were creations of the local passenger/shipping fleet as well as places largely forgotten now like Malibu and Wigwam Inn.  Not the same topic as the Steamboats of the Inside Passage, either; an article topic looking for a title....Skookum1 (talk) 03:37, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ''[[Princess Marguerite (ship)|Princess Marguerite]]''

message: *the CPR fleet.Skookum1 (talk) 15:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nice resource page

message: Hi there. I'm a relatively new editor so forgive me if my questions are inappropriate here. My main concern is the Fire section under Safety and Shipwrecks. Almost the entire section is dedicated to a fire that happened onboard a ship on the east coast, with no connection to the Mosquito Fleet or the PNW. The photo that appears is also of the east coast ship and unrelated to the PNW. Two brief examples are given for Mosquito Fleet fires, but appear at the bottom of the section and aren't given any context. Might this section be rewritten with more focus given to examples in the Mosquito Fleet? Thanks! Mpschaff (talk) 17:58, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safety and Shipwrecks - Fire 

message: There's a lot of information in this article, but something is missing. When was the name "mosquito fleet" coined, and why? Did the ships swarm like mosquitos? Was that area of the river prone to mosquitos? Or some other reason? I could guess, but I shouldn't have to. Chuntuk (talk) 13:44, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why "mosquito fleet"? 

message: I just updated the grammar of a paragraph in that section that said “service will begin in 2020” to say that “service began in 2020”. I have not gotten a new source for this information, however, and the source cited was from January of 2020. Anecdotally, I can say that I began riding the ferries around Puget Sound in early 2021 and I believe that that line was running at the time so it shouldn’t be too hard to find something to corroborate that, but my anecdotal experience cannot replace a reliable source, and a source from January of 2020 might as well be DECADES out of date, for obvious reasons. I’ll work on hunting down a new one, but if anyone beats me to it feel free to cite it. Ntowle98 (talk) 19:11, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newer source needed for Kitsap foot ferry Southworth/Downtown Seattle