Irene was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

The Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet was a large number of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound and nearby waterways and rivers. This large group of steamers and sternwheelers plied the waters of Puget Sound, stopping at every waterfront dock...

 and was active in the early 1900s.

Career

Irene was assigned to routes on southern Puget Sound, including runs out of the state capital Olympia, Washington

Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...

. Other vessels running at the same time and on similar routes included the sternwheelers Capital City

Capital City (sternwheeler)

Capital City was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. The vessel was originally named Dalton.-Career:Capital City was built in 1898 at Port Blakely at the Hall Brothers shipyard. This vessel was originally owned by Canadian Pacific Ry. and was acquired by White Pass in 1901,...

 and City of Shelton

City of Shelton (sternwheeler)

The steamboat City of Shelton operated in the 1890s and early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet-Construction:City of Shelton was built in 1895 at Shelton, Washington, to replace Willie on the Olympia-Shelton route. She was 99.8 feet long, 20.5 on the beam, with 6' depth of hold, and...

, and the small propeller driven vessels Prince, Blue Star, and Sophie.