&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Steamers_Alice_and_Albany_at_Oregon_City_circa_1874_image_2.jpg) Steamers Alice, center, and Albany at left circa 1874, at Oregon City. Across the falls can be seen the then new ship canal and locks.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Alice |
| Owner | People's Transportation Co.; Oregon Steamship Co.; Willamette Trans. & Locks Co.; Oregon Railway & Nav. Co. |
| Route | Willamette and Columbia rivers |
| Completed | 1872 |
| Identification | U.S. #105098 |
| Fate | Dismantled 1888 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | riverine all-purpose |
| Tonnage | 457.16 gross tons (1874-1886); 334.22 registered tons (1886). |
| Length | 150.5 ft (45.9 m) over hull (exclusive of fantail) |
| Beam | 25.5 ft 9 in (8.0 m) over hull (exclusive of guards) |
| Depth | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Decks | two (main and passenger) |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, each with bore of 16 in (41 cm) and stroke of 6 ft (1.83 m). |
| Propulsion | stern-wheel |
Alice was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the 1870s and 1880s. Alice was the largest vessel built above Willamette Falls and was considered in its day to be the "Queen of the River". This steamer was rebuilt after near-destruction in a fire at Oregon City, Oregon in May 1873. In 1876, it was withdrawn from the upper Willamette River and transferred to the Columbia River, where it was worked as a towboat moving ocean-going ships to and from Portland and Astoria, Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia River.