&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Sternwheelers_Lytton,_Columbia_and_Kootenai_at_Robson_BC.jpg) Sternwheelers Lytton (in distance), Columbia (center vessel with high pilot house), and Kootenai (on right) at Robson, BC, sometime between 1890 and 1894
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada | |
| Name | Columbia[1][2] |
| Owner | Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company |
| Route | Arrow Lakes |
| Builder | Joseph Paquet or Alexander Watson[3] |
| Cost | $75,000 |
| Maiden voyage | August 20, 1891 |
| In service | 1891 |
| Out of service | 1894 |
| Identification | CAN 126880[4] |
| Fate | Destroyed by fire |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland shallow-draft boat passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 534 gross; 378 net |
| Length | 152.6 ft (46.5 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Depth | 6.3 ft (1.9 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | steam engines manufactured by Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware, twin single-cylinder, horizontally mounted, 17" bore by 72" stroke, 19 hp (14 kW) nominal[1] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel |
Columbia was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia from 1891 to 1894. Columbia should be distinguished from the many other vessels with the same or similar names, including in particular the propeller-driven steamboat Columbia that ran on the Arrow Lakes for many years.
- ^ a b c 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 Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs -- An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's British Columbia Lake and River Service, 4, 6, 7, 13, 17, 19, 27-31, 33, 34, and 67, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC 1984 ISBN 0-919203-15-9
- ^ Paquet is named as her builder by Affleck, at 50. Turner states that Columbia was built "under the direction of" Alexander Watson, who was also the builder of Lytton.
- ^ Turner states that Columbia was registered in the United States