The Bailey Gatzert was a stern wheeled steamer built in Ballard in 1890, and was launched in 1891 sideways on 177 foot ways. She operated in Puget Sound, on the Pacific Coast, and on the Columbia River. She was refitted with an elevator in 1917 for loading cars, and was the first automobile ferry to serve the Olympic Peninsula. She was laid up in 1926 and her hull converted to a floating machine shop on Lake Union, but her whistle and nameboard are at the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

The City of Kingston was brought to the Pacific Northwest in 1890 for the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co. and handled the company's Puget Sound - British Columbia service. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

S.S. City of Puebla was an iron steamer built in Philadelphia in 1881 for the run between New York and Havana. She was later transferred to service between Puget Sound and San Francisco in 1889. [All citations taken from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966)]

The City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia and brought to the Pacific Northwest by Captain D.B. Jackson in 1890 for the Puget Sound and Alaska Steamship Company. It was later sold to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company in 1901. Shortly after in 1904 the ship hit a rock near Eagle Harbor and was remodeled and refurnished with steel by 1914. In 1921 it moved to the East Coast after being bought by C.L. Dimon of Florida for the Miami Steamship Company. After many years of service the ship was sold and scrapped in Philadelphia in 1937.

The Olympian was a side-wheeler steamship that was built in 1883 in Delaware. The following year it was used by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company for service from Seattle to Victoria until 1886 when it switched to running the Columbia River route. The Olympian was returned to its Puget Sound routes shortly after and was known for not withstanding the Pacific Northwest's environment and conditions. Around 1906 the ship was planning a trip to the East Coast where its owners believed it would perform better but was wrecked along the way.

The Clara Brown was a stern wheeler built in Seattle in 1886 and carried relief supplies after the Seattle Fire of 1889. It was permanently beached in 1907 in West Seattle.

The steam yacht Eleanor was built in 1896 at the Bath Iron Works under the direction and design of W. A. Slater. The yacht was bought in 1898 by Mrs. James W. Martinez-Cardeza, a future Titanic passenger who used the boat to travel to Europe and Canada. In 1900 the Eleanor was bought and transfered from Brooklyn to the Great Lakes by the president of the Great Northern Railroad, J.J. Hill who renamed the boat Wacouta.

The Fleetwood was built in 1881 in Portland, Oregon and ran routes along the Columbia River and in Puget Sound. In 1889, it was placed on the Seattle-Tacoma route alongside the Flyer. In 1898, the ship was abandoned in Quartermaster Harbor.

The Flyer ran the Seattle-Tacoma route from 1891-1918 and occasionally the Seattle-Everett route, making about four round trips daily. In 1918 the Flyer was re-built and re-named the Washington and was sent to the Navy for war service after which it returned to Puget Sound and occasionally ran until 1929.

The Greyhound was built in Portland, Oregon by Captain Claud Toup and was soon moved to Puget Sound as a passenger vessel from Seattle to Tacoma. From 1891 to 1903 it was transferred to the Seattle-Everett route. The Greyhound was known for its speed and successfully raced many other pacific northwest ships including the Fleetwood, Multnomah, and the Bailey Gatzert.

Named after the steamboat captain, Henry Bailey, the steamship was built in Tacoma, Washington around 1888. It ran from Seattle to various other towns and cities in Puget Sound under the ownership of the Pacific Navigation Company. The Henry Bailey is considered part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, a large number of passenger boats and steamers that operated in Puget Sound under the direction of various private transportation companies that connected the water ports and settlements of the Puget Sound.

The North Pacific was a side wheel steamship built in San Francisco, California started operating in Puget Sound in 1871 and in 1898 it traveled from Seattle to Alaska carrying passengers for the Alaska Goldrush. It sank in 1903 after hitting a rock off of Marrowstone Point in Port Townsend.

The Phra Nang was a British steamer that arrived in Seattle in the 1892 to connect Seattle and Puget Sound to the East.

The Premier, a steel passenger boat with wooden upperworks, was constructed by the Union Iron works, San Francisco, in 1887 for the Canadian Pacigfic Navigation Co. and ran between Vancouver, Victoria and Puget sound ports. The Premier left Port Townsend on October 8, 1902, bound for Seattle. Due to heavy fog and confusion between the Premier, the iron steam collier Willamette, laden with 2,700 tons of coal bound for San Francisco and the City of Kingston bound for Port Townsend the Willamette hit the Premier at a 45-degree angle on the port side. Surviving passengers were dispatched to Seattle aboard another ship. Four passengers were killed and at least twenty injured. Almost 24 hours were required to separate the two vessels with the assistance of a tug. The Premier was repaired and put into service under Canadian registery as the Charmer. Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co, 1966).

The Victorian was built in Portland in 1891 for service from Seattle to Victoria.

Job Carr was a pioneer who settled in Tacoma, Washington and built his cabin in 1865. He went on to be an important part of Tacoma's growth as a city and was its first Mayor.