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The last steamboat in regular service on the Upper Yukon River was Klondike (Klondike II), which made her last run on July 4, 1955. The last commercial steamboat to operate under its own power on the Yukon River was the Keno , from Whitehorse to Dawson City on August 26–29, 1960.
Last commercial steamboat to operate under its own power on the Yukon River, run from Whitehorse to Dawson City, Yukon, August 26–29, 1960. Put on display at Dawson City in 1960. - Keno was ultimately derived from a French term which means five winning numbers ; a game of chance.
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The Yukon River proper starts at the northern end of Marsh Lake, just south of Whitehorse. Some argue that the source of the Yukon River should really be Teslin Lake and the Teslin River, which has a larger flow when it reaches the Yukon at Hootalinqua. The upper end of the Yukon River was originally known as the Lewes River until it was ...
Most of the 266 sternwheelers that operated on the Yukon River were large multi-decked wooden vessels. [21] The A. J. Goddard is the only example found of the smaller steamboats. [21] The vessel was not ideally suited for the larger sections of the Yukon River; instead it had a short but successful career on Lake Laberge. [21]
The vessel was worked on the Yukon River runs from Dawson to Fairbanks, Alaska, and also from Dawson over the whole course of the Yukon downriver to St. Michael, Alaska. D.R. Campbell was originally owned by the Seattle-Yukon Transportation Company but was transferred to the Northern Navigation Company in 1901. The vessel was acquired by White ...
A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicolls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest , Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, WA (1966)
Steamboats also operated on the Red River to Shreveport, Louisiana. [citation needed] In April 1815, Captain Henry Miller Shreve was the first person to bring a steamboat, the Enterprise, up the Red River. [citation needed] By 1839 after Captain Henry Miller Shreve broke the Great Raft log jam had been 160 miles long on the river. [52]