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Shoo Fly was a sternwheel-driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the 1870s. Originally built as primarily a freight boat, the vessel was used in other roles, including towing and clearing of snags.
Elwood in tow of Relief was scheduled to depart Astoria, Oregon early in the morning on Wednesday, April 20, 1898, for Puget Sound and thereafter to Alaska. [34] Relief was a powerful steel tug built by sugar magnate Claus Spreckels. [33] Relief had completed the tow of the former Willamette River steamer Ramona to the Stikine earlier the same ...
Highway Thru Hell is a Canadian documentary television series that follows the operations of Jamie Davis Motor Truck & Auto Ltd., a heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing company based in Hope, British Columbia. Quiring Towing, Aggressive Towing, MSA Towing, Mission Towing and Reliable Towing are also featured in the series. [1]
Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company was a lumber products company with large sawmills and significant land holdings in Minnesota, Florida, British Columbia, and Central Oregon. The company was formed in 1901 with its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Beginning in 1915, its main lumber production facility was in Bend, Oregon. For many years, its ...
Weyerhaeuser added two new "J" ships to transport newsprint from the new mill that is joint venture between Weyerhaeuser and Jujo of Tokyo at Longview, British Columbia. In 1982 Weyerhaeuser Steamship Company's name is changed to Westwood Shipping Lines , the Lines also enters in to a joint venture with Hoegh, with transpacific container shipping.
Advertisement for the sale of the O.C.T.C. boats, placed August 3, 1919 in the Oregonian newspaper. On Thursday, May 2, 1918, it was announced that the Oregon City Transportation Company would cease operations. [35] High costs and lack of business forced the business to close, which ended all steamboat service on the upper Willamette. [35]
Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society. ISBN 0875950426. Farnell, James E. (1978). Tualatin River Navigability Study. Salem, OR: State of Oregon, Division of State Lands. Mills, Randall V. (1947). Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska. ISBN 0-8032-5874-7. LCCN 77007161.
Harvest Queen was the name of two stern-wheel steamboat built and operated in Oregon. Both vessels were well known in their day and had reputations for speed, power, and efficiency.The first Harvest Queen, widely considered one of the finest steamers of its day, was constructed at Celilo, Oregon, which was then separated from the other portions of the navigable Columbia River by two stretches ...