&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Sternwheelers_Lytton,_Columbia_and_Kootenai_at_Robson_BC.jpg) sternwheelers Lytton (in distance), Columbia (center), and Kootenai(on right) at Robson, BC, sometime between 1890 and 1894
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada | |
| Name | Kootenai[1][2][3] |
| Owner | Henderson & McCarthy; Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Co. |
| Route | Arrow Lakes |
| Builder | Northport, Washington |
| Launched | April 25[4] or 27,[1] 1885 |
| Maiden voyage | May 7, 1885[3] |
| In service | 1885 (laid up 1886-1890) |
| Out of service | 1895 |
| Identification | US 14436 |
| Fate | Sank near Wigwam, BC, raised and scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland shallow-draft boat passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 371 gross; 269 net |
| Length | 139 ft (42 m) |
| Beam | 22 ft (7 m) |
| Depth | 5.0 ft (2 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | steam engines manufactured 1877 by Willamette Iron Works of Portland, Oregon, twin single-cylinder, horizontally mounted, 14" bore by 60" stroke, 13 horsepower nominal |
| Propulsion | sternwheel |
Kootenai was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia from 1885 to 1895. Kootenai was the second sternwheeler to run on the Arrow Lakes.[2] This vessel should not be confused with the similarly named Kootenay, an 1897 sternwheeler that also ran on the Arrow Lakes.
- ^ a b Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 17, 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, 1, 2, 4, 8, 18, 27, 29, 34, 38, 41, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC 1984 ISBN 0-919203-15-9
- ^ a b Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 139, 324, 327, Lewis & Dryden Publishing Co., Portland, OR 1895
- ^ Downs, Art, Paddlewheels on the Frontier – The Story of British Columbia and Yukon Sternwheel Steamers, at 116, 117, 122-123, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1972