Hector was a small steam vessel built in Roche Harbor, Washington in 1897.
The vessel was worked as a cannery tender and a tug boat in the San Juan Islands and on Puget Sound from 1897 to 1913.
The vessel was used for some years as a chartered fish-trap tender in the San Juan Islands.
[1] In April 1913, Hector, making the first trip after having refitted with a new boiler was raising steam off Purdy Spit when an apparent coal gas explosion occurred.
The burned hull of Hector was towed to the shore, where beachcombers eventually removed everything usable from the hulk.