&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Steamer_Mazama.jpg) Steamer Mazama, prior to 1912
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Owner | Crater Lake Navigation Company |
| Route | Upper Klamath Lake and Wood River |
| Launched | May 4, 1908 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| Notes | Rebuild in 1911 with longer hull, using original engines |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | inland shallow draft passenger/freighter |
| Length | As built: 50 ft (15.2 m) reconstructed 1912: 63 ft (19.2 m) |
| Beam | As built: 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) reconstructed 1912: 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) |
| Decks | one |
| Installed power | Dual steam engines, 12 horsepower each, twin propellers |
| Speed | about 10 miles per hour. |
| Capacity | As reconstructed 1912: 25 tons cargo |
Mazama was a small steamboat driven by twin propellers that operated on upper Klamath Lake starting in 1909.[1] Mazama was, reportedly, the only craft ever to navigate the Wood River, a tributary of upper Klamath Lake.[2] For a few years, until the construction of a rail line, Mazama was an important link in transportation system linking Fort Klamath to Klamath Falls.
- ^ Brown, Fred (1965), Helfrich, Devere (ed.), "Upper Klamath Lake Boating", Klamath Echos (summarizing a paper presented to the Oregon Historical Society on February 19, 1947), 1 (2), Klamath Falls, OR: Klamath County Historical Society: 13
- ^ Dateline: Fort Klamath, Or. Dec. 31 (Special) (Jan 1, 1911), "Steamer Goes to Bottom — Upper Klamath Lake Craft, Mazama, Will Be Raised in Spring", The Sunday Oregonian, vol. 30, no. 1, Portland, OR: ., p. 11 col. 4
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