Emma Hayward commonly called the Hayward, was a steamboat that served in the Pacific Northwest. This vessel was once one of the finest and fastest steamboats on the Columbia River and Puget Sound. As
Emma Hayward at foot of Main Street, Seattle, W.T., circa 1885.
Advertisement published May 8, 1872, for an excursion of the Improved Order of Red Men to Sauvie Island.
Advertisement for the steamers, including Emma Hayward, by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, circa 1878.
Emma Hayward, center (next to pier), moored in Seattle, June 6, 1891. Large steamer on left is T.J. Potter.
The steamboat Fleetwood operated in the 1880s and 1890s on the Columbia River and later as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.
Emma Hayward
…very successful in operations on the Willamette river. Scott and his allies set up a competitor to the O.R.&N, using the newly built propeller-driven Fleetwood on the Columbia below the Cascades, and competing above the Cascades with the Gold Dust, which they had hauled overland around the rapids at the Cascades…
steamboat Fleetwood, circa 1890, probably somewhere on Puget Sound