&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Gov_Newell_at_La_Center_13_May_1900.jpg) Gov. Newell (center), at La Center, Washington, May 13, 1900. Sternwheeler Mascot on right.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Governor Newell |
| Owner | Shoalwater Bay Transportation Co.; John Corse Trullinger; Charles O. and Minnie M. Hill |
| Route | Willapa Bay, Grays Harbor, Chehalis River, lower Columbia and lower Willamette River, Lewis River |
| Maiden voyage | August 26, 1883 |
| Out of service | 1900 |
| Identification | U.S. #85806 |
| Fate | Dismantled |
| Notes | Cabin structure and portions of machinery used in construction of sternwheeler Paloma. |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Inland all-purpose |
| Length | 111 ft (33.83 m) |
| Beam | 20 ft (6.10 m) |
| Depth | 5.0 ft (1.52 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, cylinder bore 12 in (304.8 mm) and stroke of 4 ft (1.22 m); wood-fired boiler |
| Crew | Five (in towing work) |
Governor Newell was a sternwheel-driven steamboat that operated from 1883 to 1902 in the Pacific Northwest.
Gov. Newell was owned by Capt. Charles Oliver Hill (1853–1944), whose wife, Minnie Hill was the first woman west of the Mississippi river to hold a steamboat captain's license.[1][2][3]
Gov. Newell was named after William A. Newell, governor of the Washington Territory from 1880 to 1884.
- ^ "License Is Goal — Woman Asks to Be Examined for Pilots' Ticket". Sunday Oregonian. Vol. 34, no. 33. Portland, OR. August 15, 1915. sec.2, p.5, col.4.
- ^ Timmen, Fritz (1973). Blow for the Landing -- A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers. p. 120. ISBN 0-87004-221-1. LCCN 73150815.
- ^ Shannon Moon Leonetti (2015). "Ordinary Women/Extraordinary Lives: Oregon Women and Their Stories of Persistence, Grit and Grace". Portland State University.