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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)
I worked up this article a bit, it still has a long way to go and needs a good fresh look. There are some nice photo links, mostly to the University of Washington's collections.
Mtsmallwood (
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Your links to photos are spectacular. I've had this article on my watch list, but have not gotten much done on it. Thank you.
I'm in the Bremerton area, and the local libraries have some reference materials from local historical societies. I'm thinking that working up some organization of the data for ships, operators, and ports-of-call might provide a framework for the body of the article. In each local area the ship company owners were prominent community leaders, and the ports-of-call have in some cases become bustling communities, but in others the rotting piers are often still there.
In the larger context of transportation, these waterways were much more feasible than overland routes for commerce and social networks, long before the era of the steamship.
But the links you've added really get this article moving forward. - Michael J Swassing ( talk) 18:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I am gradually adding detail to this topic, I don't have Lewis & Dryden which is the main source for this area up to 1896, and I can't seem to access it on-line, although I know it's available. The secondary sources are not comprehensive, although I've found a couple which are better than others. NEED PHOTOS! If anybody has some, please add. Mtsmallwood ( talk) 17:51, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
This article contains an extremely large number of external links, more than what seems reasonable. Per WP:NOT#LINK and WP:EL, it really needs to be compacted to the ones most directly related to this one article. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 20:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
I worked up this article a bit, it still has a long way to go and needs a good fresh look. There are some nice photo links, mostly to the University of Washington's collections.
Mtsmallwood (
talk) 16:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Your links to photos are spectacular. I've had this article on my watch list, but have not gotten much done on it. Thank you.
I'm in the Bremerton area, and the local libraries have some reference materials from local historical societies. I'm thinking that working up some organization of the data for ships, operators, and ports-of-call might provide a framework for the body of the article. In each local area the ship company owners were prominent community leaders, and the ports-of-call have in some cases become bustling communities, but in others the rotting piers are often still there.
In the larger context of transportation, these waterways were much more feasible than overland routes for commerce and social networks, long before the era of the steamship.
But the links you've added really get this article moving forward. - Michael J Swassing ( talk) 18:15, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
I am gradually adding detail to this topic, I don't have Lewis & Dryden which is the main source for this area up to 1896, and I can't seem to access it on-line, although I know it's available. The secondary sources are not comprehensive, although I've found a couple which are better than others. NEED PHOTOS! If anybody has some, please add. Mtsmallwood ( talk) 17:51, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
This article contains an extremely large number of external links, more than what seems reasonable. Per WP:NOT#LINK and WP:EL, it really needs to be compacted to the ones most directly related to this one article. --- Barek ( talk • contribs) - 20:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)