&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Steamer_Newport_before_1914.jpg) Newport with passenger barge Elk, circa 1910.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Newport |
| Route | Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River |
| Launched | May 20, 1908 Yaquina City, Oregon |
| Completed | 1908 |
| Identification | US registry #205273 |
| Fate | Abandoned by 1930 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland passenger, wood construction |
| Tonnage | 77 gross; 54 regis. tons |
| Length | 72 ft (21.95 m) |
| Beam | 16.4 ft (5.00 m) |
| Depth | 5.4 ft (1.65 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | Originally steam engine, 160 indicated NHP; converted 1914 to gasoline-engine, 110 horsepower. |
| Propulsion | propeller |
Newport was an American steamboat built in 1908 at Yaquina City, Oregon. Now a ghost town, Yaquina City was then the terminus of the Corvallis & Eastern Railroad. For many years Newport transported excursionists in the summer months across a short water route between Yaquina City and the town of Newport, Oregon.
Newport was originally built as a steam-powered vessel, and used some of the components, including the boiler, from an earlier steamer, the T.M. Richardson.[1]
Although only a small wooden vessel, Newport, with the aid of an unpowered barge lashed alongside, transported as many as 500 passengers at a time on the short trip across Yaquina Bay. In 1914, to accommodate anticipated greater patronage of the rail line, Newport was converted to gasoline engine power.