&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Harvest_Queen_(sternwheeler)_ca_1910.PNG) The second Harvest Queen backing away from a landing, ca 1910, probably at Portland, Oregon, on the Willamette River.
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| History | |
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| Name | Harvest Queen |
| Owner | Oregon Steam Navigation Co.; later, Oregon Railway & Navig. Co. |
| Route | Columbia River and lower Willamette River to Portland, Oregon |
| Builder | (for 1900 rebuild): Peter Carstens (1842-1914) |
| Cost | $24,000 |
| Completed | 1878, Celilo, Oregon |
| Fate | Dismantled 1900; reconstructed; stripped and abandoned, 1926 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | riverine passenger/freight |
| Length | As built 200 ft (61.0 m) over hull (exclusive of fantail); As rebuilt 187 ft 9 in (57.23 m) measured over guards |
| Beam | 39 ft 9 in (12.1 m) hull; 46 ft 9 in (14.25 m) over guards |
| Depth | 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) |
| Decks | three (main, boiler, and hurricane) |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, each with bore of 20 in (508.0 mm) and stroke of 8 ft (2.44 m); wood-fired boiler |
| Propulsion | stern-wheel |
| Speed | 20 miles (32 km) per hour (downstream). |
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 of difficult to pass rapids.
At considerable risk, this steamer was taken down through the first set of rapids in 1881, and the second set in 1890. Thereafter the first Harvest Queen was worked primarily between Astoria and Portland, Oregon until 1900, when it was dismantled. Most of the machinery was installed in a new, slightly smaller vessel, also called the Harvest Queen, which, although it had accommodations for passengers, was primarily worked as a towboat.
In 1926 the second Harvest Queen was sold to a scrap metal concern, Alaska Junk Company (later to become Schnitzer Steel Industries), which sought a buyer for the steamer. With no buyer found, the boat was stripped out and then abandoned near Ross Island.