Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Willamette Queen, pictured at her dock in Salem, Oregon, has twin paddle wheels. The Willamette Queen is an 87-foot (27 m) sternwheeler built in 1990 in Newport, Oregon, which operates on the Willamette River, year-round from Salem's Riverfront Park. [21]
Two wounds on the body's head were thought to be consistent with the theory that he had been struck on the head by the buckets of the paddle wheel. [19] Armstrong's gold watch was found still attached to his vest by the chain. [19] The body was taken to Oregon City, where his parents resided, for burial. [19]
The paddle-wheel steamboat has been described as an economic "invasion craft" which allowed the rapid exploitation of the Oregon Country, a huge area of the North American continent eventually divided between the United States and Canada, and of Alaska and the Yukon. [1]
A typical river paddle steamer from the 1850s. Fall Line's steamer Providence, launched 1866 Finlandia Queen, a paddle-wheel ship from 1990s in Tampere, Finland [1]. A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.
Portland (or the Portland) is a sternwheel steamboat built in 1947 for the Port of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. [7]The Portland is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and presently hosts the Oregon Maritime Museum which owns the vessel.
The Columbia, sometimes called the Steamer Columbia, was a paddle steamer excursion boat on which 87 people died, [1] [2] on the Illinois River on July 5, 1918, across from Creve Coeur, between Peoria and Pekin, Illinois. [3]
If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online!
Lot Whitcomb was built at Milwaukie, Oregon, on the Willamette River.Her initial owners were S.S. White, Berryman Jennings, and Lot Whitcomb, who conceived the steamer as a way to establish Milwaukie, then engaged in rivalry with Portland and other towns along the river, as the premier city in the region.