&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Steamer_Dispatch_on_Coquille_River,_Oregon,_circa_1910.jpg) Dispatch on the Coquille River circa 1910
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Dispatch |
| Port of registry | Coos Bay, Oregon |
| Builder | Charles Trigg, Parkersburg, Oregon |
| Cost | $18,000 |
| In service | 1903 |
| Identification | U.S. 200081 |
| Notes | Operated as John Wildi after 1920. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Inland passenger/freight |
| Tonnage | 250 gross tons; 167 net tons |
| Length | 111.4 ft (33.95 m) |
| Beam | 24.5 ft (7.47 m) |
| Decks | two |
| Installed power | Twin steam engines, horizontally mounted. |
| Propulsion | Sternwheel |
| Crew | Five (5). |
Dispatch was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River on the southern Oregon coast from 1903 to 1920. The name of this vessel is sometimes seen spelled Despatch. This sternwheeler should not be confused with an earlier and somewhat smaller sternwheeler, also named Dispatch, that was built at Bandon, Oregon, in 1890, for which the 1903 Dispatch was a replacement.[1][2]
- ^ U.S. Treasury Dept., Statistics Bureau, Annual List of Merchant Vessels (for year ending June 30, 1898)., at page 225.
- ^ Timmen, Fritz, Blow for the Landing -- A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West, Caxton, Caldwell, ID (1973), at page 204.