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Vashon Island sits in the midpoint of southern Puget Sound, between Seattle and Tacoma, Washington.In the nearby Pacific Ocean, roughly 170 miles (270 km) west of Vashon Island, lies the 700-mile (1,130 km) tectonic boundary known as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and as such, Vashon Island is one of many areas at risk for earthquakes or related natural disasters.
The Island Queen was a series of two American sidewheeler steamboats built in 1896 and 1925 respectively. Both vessels were passenger carriers cruising along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers as both an excursion boat and tramp steamer .
It is a historic waterfront residential area on Vashon Island. The town of Burton sits at the isthmus between Inner and Outer Quartermaster Harbor. The town was named in 1892 by Mrs. Miles Hatch after her home town in Illinois, [2] and in that year development began in Burton with the Vashon College and the Burton Store. Industries around ...
Vashon Island, an island in Puget Sound. Vashon Municipal Airport on Vashon Island. Vashon High School, a high school in St. Louis, Missouri; Vashon, Washington, the community on Vashon Island. Vashon-Maury Island Community Council, representatives of Vashon and Maury Islands to the King County Council, Washington.
A story is reported that as Iola was moving towards Seattle on the west side of Vashon Island, with Captain Vanderhoef in the pilot house. While shaking a tablecloth over the side, Mrs. Vanderhoef fell overboard. Her husband did not hear her call for help, because of the engine noise. He did not notice she was missing until he reached Seattle.
Quartermaster Harbor is formed by Vashon Island on the west and Maury Island on the east. It opens about 0.8-mile (1.3 km) east of the Tahlequah, Washington ferry landing at the south end of Vashon Island, with the entrance between Neill Point on Vashon Island and Piner Point on Maury Island.
Puget Sound (Vashon and Maury Islands); Gulf Islands: Builder: Matthew McDowell, at shipyard in Tacoma: Completed: 1913: In service: 1913: Out of service: c. 1980: Identification: IMO number: 5083241: Fate: Sunk as reef near Saltspring Island [citation needed] Notes: Built as Daily, ran on Puget Sound 1913-1918, then sold to CPR: General ...
Vashon was built for the Vashon Navigation Company which was then engaged in fierce competition with the Tacoma and Burton Navigation Company for the freight and passenger business on the steamboat routes in the Tacoma and Vashon Island areas of Puget Sound. Vashon was the first steamboat constructed by the Martinolich Shipbuilding Company ...