Minnehaha (sternwheeler)

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History
NameMinnehaha
RouteOswego Lake, Willamette River
Maiden voyageOctober 24, 1866
IdentificationU.S. 90084
FateBroken up 1876
General characteristics
Typeinland steamboat
Length70 ft (21.3 m) exclusive of fantail.
Beam16 ft (4.9 m) exclusive of guards
Depth3 ft (1 m) 3.5 ft (1 m) or depth of hold
Installed powertwin steam engines, horizontally mounted, single cylinder, bore 8.5 in (215.90 mm), stroke 18 in (457.20 mm).
Propulsionstern-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.