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| History | |
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| Name | Alaskan |
| Owner | &sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:OR%26N_House_Flag.svg){kind=small} Oregon Railway and Navigation Company |
| Route | Columbia River, Puget Sound |
| Builder | Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works |
| Cost | $350,000[1] |
| Launched | August 8, 1883[1] |
| Completed | 1883 |
| In service | April 6, 1884[1] |
| Fate | Foundered May 12, 1889 |
| Notes | iron hull, built in Chester, Pennsylvania |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Inland steamship |
| Tonnage | 1718 |
| Length | 276 ft (84 m) |
| Beam | 39.6 ft (12.1 m)[1] |
| Depth | 14.5 ft (4.4 m) depth of hold[1] |
| Decks | three (freight, passenger, hurricane) |
| Installed power | Coal-fired boiler, single-cylinder walking beam engine |
| Propulsion | sidewheels |
| Sail plan | schooner (auxiliary) |
| Notes | Near sistership to Olympian |
The steamship Alaskan operated from 1884 to 1889 on the Columbia River and Puget Sound. Alaskan and her near-sistership Olympian were known as "Henry Villard's White Elephants."[2] There were a number of vessels named Alaska and Alaskan, this large side-wheel steamboat should not be confused with them.
- ^ a b c d e "The Alaskan Founders—Five men thought to have gone down with the steamship" (PDF). The New York Times. May 17, 1889. Retrieved 2008-02-29.
- ^ Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 43, 346, n. 10 and 414, Superior Publishing, Seattle 1966 ISBN 0-87564-220-9