History Pub - Steamship Virginia V: Last of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
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McMenamins and Bothell Historical Society present
History Pub
Steamship Virginia V: Last of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
Presented by Ed Brown
McMenamins Anderson School
Haynes’ Hall
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
7pm/doors 6pm
$5
All ages welcome
Before modern roads and the automobile, the most common form of travel on the Puget Sound was by small passenger steamboat. With hundreds of boats in service visiting over 200 different docks, there was fierce competition between ferries, and your commute to work might involve a steamship race, crash or a fist fight.
After 100 years of operation on Puget Sound, only one passenger steamship remains: the 𝑆𝑆 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑉. Historian Ed Brown tells the story of the steamship, as well as the history of the Mosquito Fleet.
Ed Brown is the head docent of the Steamer Virginia V Foundation. A lifelong Washington resident, Ed specializes in the fascinating, wild history of the Mosquito Fleet. Ed is also a lead deckhand and tour guide aboard the SS Virginia V.
History Pub
Steamship Virginia V: Last of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
Presented by Ed Brown
McMenamins Anderson School
Haynes’ Hall
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
7pm/doors 6pm
$5
All ages welcome
Before modern roads and the automobile, the most common form of travel on the Puget Sound was by small passenger steamboat. With hundreds of boats in service visiting over 200 different docks, there was fierce competition between ferries, and your commute to work might involve a steamship race, crash or a fist fight.
After 100 years of operation on Puget Sound, only one passenger steamship remains: the 𝑆𝑆 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑉. Historian Ed Brown tells the story of the steamship, as well as the history of the Mosquito Fleet.
Ed Brown is the head docent of the Steamer Virginia V Foundation. A lifelong Washington resident, Ed specializes in the fascinating, wild history of the Mosquito Fleet. Ed is also a lead deckhand and tour guide aboard the SS Virginia V.
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