&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Beaver_(sternwheeler)_on_Willamette_River_ca_1875.jpg) Beaver (sternwheel steamboat)
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| History | |
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| Owner | Willamette Transportation Co.,[1] Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Co.[2] |
| Route | Willamette, lower Columbia, and Stikine rivers[2] |
| Launched | August 21, 1873,[2] at Portland[1][3] |
| In service | 1873 |
| Identification | US registry # 2889 |
| Fate | May 17, 1878, hit rock and sank on Stikine River |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Shallow draft inland passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 292 gross register tons |
| Length | 125 ft (38.1 m)[2] |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m)[2] |
| Depth | 5.0 ft (1.5 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | Steam, twin high pressure horizontally mounted, single-cylinder engines, 14-inch bore by 48-inch stroke, 13 hp (9.7 kW) nominal[2] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel[1] |
Beaver was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1873 for the Willamette Transportation Company.
- ^ a b c Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 103, 143, 190, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE (1977 reprint of 1947 ed.) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
- ^ a b c d e f Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 8, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ Corning, Howard McKinley, Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns on the River, at 127, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR (2d Ed. 1973) ISBN 0-87595-042-6