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  2. Steamboats of the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    The Willamette River flows northwards down the Willamette Valley until it meets the Columbia River at a point 101 miles (163 km) [2] from the mouth of the Columbia. In the natural condition of the river, Portland was the farthest point on the river where the water was deep enough to allow ocean-going ships.

  3. Tourist sternwheelers of Oregon - Wikipedia

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    The sternwheeler M.V. Columbia Gorge, built in 1983, was one of the first replica steamboats built for tourism purposes in Oregon. Since the early 1980s, several non-steam-powered sternwheel riverboats have been built and operated on major waterways in the U.S. state of Oregon, primarily the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, as river cruise ships used for tourism.

  4. Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. [14] The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.

  5. American Empress - Wikipedia

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    A 2014 stern view of the ship, now re-lettered as American Empress, at Howard Amon Park in Richland, Washington, a few days before returning to service. The American Queen Steamboat Company, owner and operator of the U.S-flagged American Queen, announced on May 22, 2013, that it had purchased the Empress of the North from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) and that it would rename the ...

  6. Columbia Bar - Wikipedia

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    Bathymetric map of the Columbia River mouth: isobaths at five-foot (1.5 m) intervals, 15–310 feet (4.6–94.5 m). Sandbars in yellow. The Columbia Bar is a system of bars and shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River spanning the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington.

  7. List of steamboats on the Columbia River - Wikipedia

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    Columbia: side genl 1850 Astoria, Oregon 90 27.4 75 1852 D [8] Columbia: 126880 stern psgr 1891 Little Dalles, WA: 152 46.3 534 378 1894 B [9] Columbia: C103892 prop tow 1896 Nakusp, BC 77 23.5 49 34 1920 D Columbia: 127689 stern psgr 1902 Blalock, Oregon: 77 23.5 159 106 1909 RN [N 32] Columbia: 202757 prop frt. 1905 Astoria, Oregon

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