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This is a list of steamboats and related vessels which operated on the Columbia river and its tributaries and in the state of Oregon, including its coastal areas. This should not be considered a complete list. Information for some vessels may be lacking, or sources may be in conflict.
Far inland, the Columbia river was interrupted by rapids and falls, so much that it was never made freely navigable once Priest Rapids was reached above Pasco, Washington. There were important steamboat operations on many lakes that ultimately were tributary to the Columbia River, both in the United States and in Canada.
Steamboats operated on the Wenatchee Reach of the Columbia River from the late 1880s to 1915. The main base of operations was Wenatchee, Washington , located at the confluence of the Wenatchee and Columbia Rivers, 465 miles (748 km) from the mouth of the river.
Steamboats at the Okanogan wharf, May 1909. While these vessels are in active service, in six years almost all steamboat activity on the Columbia River above Wenatchee will have ceased. Settlement in the Okanogan region decreased starting in about 1910. [3]
Sentinel (steamboat) Shipwrecks of the inland Columbia River; Sioux (steamship) Sol Duc (steamship) State of Washington (sternwheeler) Steamboats of Grays Harbor and Chehalis and Hoquiam Rivers; Steamboats of Lake Chelan
Pages in category "Steamboats of the Columbia River" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Okanogan Steamboat Company was a shipping company that ran steamboats on the Columbia River above Wenatchee, Washington from the late 19th century to 1915. Its steamboats included Pringle, Chelan, and North Star. [1]
The first riverine steamboat to operate in the Grays Harbor area was the Enterprise, originally built in 1855 above Willamette Falls, at Canemah (now a part of Oregon City). Enterprise served on the Willamette River until 1858, when she was sent to the Fraser River in British Columbia where gold had