.jpg) Willamette Chief
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| Owner | Willamette River Navigation Co.,[1] Oregon Steam Navigation Co. |
| Route | Willamette River[1] |
| Builder | J.F. Steffen* of Portland, Oregon[2] |
| Maiden voyage | March 23, 1874[2] |
| Identification | US registry #80405; #80701 (after rebuild) |
| Fate | 1894, burned at Portland |
| Type | shallow draft inland passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 586 gross; after rebuild 524[1] or 693[3] |
| Length | 163 ft (49.7 m)[1] |
| Beam | 31.0 ft (9.4 m); after rebuild: 31.0 ft (9 m)[1] |
| Depth | 6.0 ft (1.8 m) depth of hold; after rebuild: 6.0 ft (2 m)[1] |
| Installed power | steam, twin high pressure horizontally mounted, single-cylinder engines, 20" bore by 60" stroke, 26 horsepower nominal[1] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel[3] |
Willamette Chief was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1874 for the Willamette River Navigation Company.
- ^ a b c d e f g Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 14, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ a b Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 213-14, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR 1895
- ^ a b c Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 63, 103, 126-27, 143, 203, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE (1977 reprint of 1947 ed.) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7