&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Mascot_sternwheeler.jpg) Mascot loading cordwood fuel circa 1900, probably on the Lewis River.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Mascot |
| Owner | Jacob Kamm; Lewis and Lake River Co.; Vancouver Trans. Co. |
| Route | Lewis, Lake, lower Columbia, and lower Willamette rivers |
| Builder | Charles Bureau or Jacob Kamm |
| In service | 1890 |
| Out of service | 1911 |
| Identification | US #92253 (1890–1908) #204927(1908–1911) |
| Fate | Burned in Lewis River |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Inland river steamer, multiple use |
| Tonnage | 267.35 GT, 199.46 RT (1890–1908); 299 GT / 258 RT 1908–1911) |
| Length | 132 ft (40.23 m) (1890–1908); 141 ft (42.98 m) (1908–1911) |
| Beam | 24 ft (7.32 m) (1890–1908); 26.8 ft (8.17 m) (1908–1911) |
| Depth | 5.5 ft (1.68 m) depth of hold (1890–1908); 6.8 ft (2.07 m) depth of hold (1908–1911) |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, cylinder bore 13 in (330.2 mm) (or 15 in (381.0 mm)) and stroke of 5 ft (1.52 m); wood-fired boilers (1890–1905); oil-fired (1905–1911) |
| Propulsion | stern-wheel |
Mascot was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1890 which operated primarily on a route running from Portland, Oregon down the Willamette and Columbia rivers to points on the Lewis and Lake rivers. Points served included the town of Woodland, Washington, on the main branch of the Lewis, and La Center, Washington on the east fork.
Mascot also served Ridgefield on the Lake River. Mascot operated briefly as a replacement boat on the upper Willamette River. Mascot has been described as the "prime example of a jobbing boat."[1] Mascot was in operation from 1890 to 1911, including a 1908 reconstruction, which was a relatively long time for a vessel of its type, built entirely of wood.[2]
This sternwheeler should not be confused with the small steamboat Mascot which operated at about the same time on the Alsea River and Yaquina Bay.
Mascot was operated a route that ran between Portland, Oregon and the Lewis and Lake rivers in Cowlitz and Clark counties in southwestern Washington.
Although Mascot was profitable, it had a series of sinkings and other accidents giving it a reputation as a "hoodoo" boat, that is, a jinxed vessel. Much of this reputation was simply newspaper derision, but there were also several fatal incidents, including at least two apparent suicides or attempted suicides and two instances of fatalities to crew members.
Mascot was rebuilt in 1908 at Portland for the Lewis and Lake River Co.[3] Mascot burned in 1911 on the Lewis River.[3]
- ^ Timmen, Fritz (1973). Blow for the Landing – A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers. p. 107. ISBN 0-87004-221-1. LCCN 73150815.
- ^ Mills, Randall V. (1947). "Ch. 9 As the Sparks Fly Upwards". Sternwheelers up Columbia – A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country. Lincoln NE: University of Nebraska. p. 114. ISBN 0-8032-5874-7. LCCN 77007161.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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