&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Canemah_ad_OrSpec_05_May_1854_p4c1.jpg) Advertisement for steamer Canemah, placed May 5, 1854
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Canemah |
| Owner | Hedges, Bennett, and others[1] |
| Route | upper Willamette River |
| In service | 1851 |
| Out of service | 1857 |
| Fate | Dismantled 1858, at Canemah[1] or 1857[2] |
| Notes | Exploded 1853, one passenger killed, ship repaired |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | shallow draft inland passenger/freight, wooden construction[1] |
| Tonnage | 88 gross[1] |
| Length | 135 ft (41 m)[1][2] |
| Beam | 19 ft (6 m)[1] |
| Depth | 4.0 ft (1 m) depth of hold[1] |
| Installed power | steam engines, high pressure, horizontally mounted, 10" bore by 48" stroke, 6 horsepower nominal[1] |
| Propulsion | sidewheels |
Canemah was one of the first steamboats to run on the Willamette River above Willamette Falls. Canemah was the first steamboat to load grain at Corvallis, the first to carry the mail on the Willamette River, and the first steamboat in Oregon to suffer a fatal boiler explosion.[3]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ a b Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 21, 52-53, 54, and 176, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (1977 reprint of 1947 ed.) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
- ^ Marshall, Don, Oregon Shipwrecks, at 204, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR 1984 ISBN 0-8323-0430-1