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| History | |
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| Name | North Pacific |
| Owner | Starr Bros., Oregon Railway and Navigation Company |
| Route | Puget Sound, Inside Passage, coastal British Columbia, Columbia River, |
| Launched | 1871, at San Francisco, California |
| Out of service | 1903 |
| Identification | US #18685 |
| Fate | Struck rock and sank off Marrowstone Point, 1903 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland steamship |
| Tonnage | 488.73 GRT |
| Length | 166 ft (50.60 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.84 m) |
| Depth | 15.0 ft (4.57 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | Single-cylinder walking beam engine, 40-inch-diameter (1,000 mm) piston, 120-inch (3,000 mm)stroke |
| Propulsion | sidewheels |
North Pacific was an early steamboat operating in Puget Sound, on the Columbia River, and in British Columbia and Alaska. The vessel's nickname was "the White Schooner" which was not based on the vessel's rig, but rather on speed, as "to schoon" in nautical parlance originally meant to go fast.[1]