&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Steamboats_in_boat_basin,_Oregon_City_-_c._1865.jpg) Steamboats in boat basin at Oregon City circa 1865
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Echo |
| Owner | Willamette Steam Navigation Company and later others |
| Route | Willamette River |
| Launched | 1865[1] |
| Identification | US 8142[1] |
| Fate | Dismantled at Canemah, 1873[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland shallow-draft passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 273 gross[2] |
| Length | 122 ft (37 m)[1][3] |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m)[1][3] |
| Depth | 4 ft (1.2 m) depth of hold[1][3] |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, 10" bore by 36" stroke, 6 horsepower nominal[1] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel |
Echo was a sternwheel steamboat that operated on the Willamette River from about 1865 to 1873 and was one of the first steamboats to carry what was then considered a large cargo out of Eugene, Oregon.
- ^ a b c d e f g Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 7, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia, 192, Univ. of Nebraska (1947; 1977 printing) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
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