Advertisement for auction of Minnehaha, September 4, 1871
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History | |
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Name | Minnehaha |
Route | Oswego Lake, Willamette River |
Maiden voyage | October 24, 1866 |
Identification | U.S. 90084 |
Fate | Broken up 1876 |
General characteristics | |
Type | inland steamboat |
Length | 70 ft (21.3 m) exclusive of fantail. |
Beam | 16 ft (4.9 m) exclusive of guards |
Depth | 3 ft (1 m) 3.5 ft (1 m) or depth of hold |
Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, single cylinder, bore 8.5 in (215.90 mm), stroke 18 in (457.20 mm). |
Propulsion | stern-wheel |
Minnehaha was a sternwheel-driven steamboat which was built in 1866 on Oswego Lake, then known as Sucker Lake, in Oregon, United States. Minnehaha was later transferred to the Willamette and Columbia rivers where it operated for the first part of the 1870s.