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Coos Bay is a large and mostly shallow harbor on Oregon's southwest coast, to the north of the Coquille River valley. It is the major harbor on the west coast of the United States between San Francisco and the mouth of the Columbia River. Two steamboat captains from the Columbia River began steamboat operations on Coos Bay in 1873. Inland ...
Sidewheel steamboat Coos, sometime before 1895. The Coos Bay Mosquito Fleet comprised numerous small steamboats and motor vessels which operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on Coos Bay, a large and mostly shallow harbor on the southwest coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, to the north of the Coquille River valley.
The first steamboat built and launched on the Willamette was Lot Whitcomb, launched at Milwaukie, Oregon, in 1850. Lot Whitcomb was 160 feet (49 m) long, had 24-foot (7.3 m) beam, 5 feet (1.5 m) of draft, and 600 gross tons. [3] Her engines were designed by Jacob Kamm, built in the eastern United States, then shipped in pieces to Oregon. [4]
East Portland, Oregon 143 43.6 313 278 1889 T-PS Multnomah: 203158 prop psgr 1906 Portland, Oregon 71 21.6 42 34 1907 O Multnomah [2] dredge 1913 Portland, Oregon 269 82.0 1,135 Muskrat: stern snag 1892 Golden, BC 84 25.6 380 265 Myrtle [2] 90925 prop Empire City, Oregon 50 15.2 21 1878 O Myrtle: prop Marshfield, Oregon 1887 O
Oregon [1] built in 1845, was a side-wheel driven steamboat operating on the Hudson River. Originally built for George Law , it was later bought by Daniel Drew . Drew was operating a service using his boat Knickerbocker on the Stonington and New York route.
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Cascade arrived at Portland, Oregon on September 5, 1864, and immediately began a refit, making a trial trip on January 23, 1865, with Captain Van Bergen at the wheel. [1] Before Cascade could engage in serious competition, the Oregon Steam Navigation Company started paying her owners a monthly stipend on condition that they would keep Cascade ...
The Belle of Oregon City, generally referred to as Belle, was built in 1853, and was the first iron steamboat built on the west coast of North America. [ 2 ] Design and construction