The steamboat Mizpah operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

Gordon Newell described Mizpah ’s role in the early maritime transportation network: [A]s a steamboat, she was typical of the small craft that carried the mail and groceries, milk cans and mail order catalogs to the settlements that only saw the big steamers as flashes of white speeding towards the cities.

His widow later married Captain Young.At some point, Mizpah seems to have come into the ownership of Captain Hopkins of Olympia, who in 1911 replaced her on the Oyster Bay and Kamilche run with the gasoline-powered passenger and freight boat Chickaree, which he had bought from Capt.

[4][5] In about 1921, she was converted from a gasoline power plant to 60 horsepower (45 kW) Fairbanks-Morse diesel propulsion.

[citation needed] Mizpah was still in operation in 1951, and possibly as late as 1960, working as a tug and tow boat on upper Puget Sound.