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The beginnings of the use of steamboats on the Colorado River came as the result of the founding of Fort Yuma during the Yuma War.Supplies had to be shipped over long distance from San Francisco to San Diego then overland through the Peninsular Ranges via Warner Pass to Depot Vallecito then 113 miles (182 km) across the arid Colorado Desert to the fort.
Table 1: Steamboats on the Lower Colorado River Name Type Year built Where built Builders Launched Owners Tons Length Beam Draft Engines - cargo tonnage Disposition Cochan: stern 1899 Yuma: unknown Yuma, 1899 Colorado Steam Navigation Company: 234 135' 31' 22" loaded, 11" light Taken from the Gila - 125 tons. Dismantled Spring, 1910 Cocopah I ...
View showing steamboat Cochan on the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona in 1900. [1] A photograph of the Cochan taken in 1900. Cochan was the last stern-wheel steamboat running on the Colorado River for the Colorado Steam Navigation Company, between 1899 and 1909. Cochan was sold to the U.S Reclamation Service in 1909. Not required by the ...
Mohave, the second stern-wheel steamboat of that name running on the Colorado River for the Colorado Steam Navigation Company (C.S.N.C) between 1875 and 1876. It was the first and only double smokestack steamboat to run on the river.
The Colorado River (Spanish: Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long (2,330 km) river, the 5th longest in the United States, drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. states and two Mexican states.
Steamboats of the Colorado River (1852 to 1916) — used for steamboat transport on the Colorado River, from the Gulf of California up the Lower Colorado River Valley.
Uncle Sam, was a side-wheel paddle steamer and the first steamboat on the Colorado River in 1852.. In November 1852, Uncle Sam, a 65-foot (20 m) long side-wheel paddle steamer was brought by the schooner Capacity from San Francisco to the Colorado River Delta by the next contractor to supply Fort Yuma, Captain James Turnbull.
Colorado, was a stern-wheel paddle-steamer, the third steamboat on the Colorado River, and first stern-wheel steamboat put on that river, in December 1855.. The Colorado was a 120 foot long, stern-wheel steamboat, built for the George A. Johnson & Company in San Francisco by John G. North a well known builder of steamboats in California. [1]