&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Black_Hawk_steam_propeller_ad_1851.jpg) Advertisement for steamer Blackhawk.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Black Hawk |
| Operator | Jacob Kamm; C.H. Clark & Co. |
| Route | Sacramento River, Willamette River |
| Fate | Dismantled, 1852 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland shallow draft passenger/freighter/towboat |
| Length | 30 ft (9 m) |
| Beam | 7 ft (2 m) |
| Depth | 3.0 ft (1 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | steam engine |
| Propulsion | propeller |
| Notes | Iron hull. |
Black Hawk was one of three small iron-propeller driven steamboats manufactured in Philadelphia in about 1850 and shipped to the west coast of United States to be placed in river service. The other boats were Eagle and Major Redding.[1] These boats were some of the earliest steamers to operate on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. They could carry about 12 passengers and perhaps a ton of cargo.[2] The boats had to be small to make the run to Oregon City, which passed through the Clackamas rapids a short distance downriver from the town.[2]
- ^ "Appendix MM: Steamboats Out of Service". Report of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army: Improvement of Rivers and Harbors in Oregon and in Washington Territory. Vol. 2 pt. 3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1880. p. 2274.
- ^ a b Mills, Randall V. (1977). Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska (published 1947). pp. 21, 170, 190. ISBN 0-8032-5874-7. LCCN 77007161.