&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Nez_Perce_Chief_strikes_rock_(1868_news_item.jpg) News item on Nez Perce Chief from the Walla Walla Statesman, December 25, 1868
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Nez Perce Chief |
| Owner | Oregon Steam Navigation Company[1] |
| In service | 1863 (built at Celilo, Oregon) |
| Out of service | 1874[1] |
| Identification | US registry #18399[1] |
| Fate | Dismantled |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland shallow-draft passenger/freighter, all wooden construction |
| Tonnage | 327 gross[1] |
| Length | 126 ft (38 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (8 m) |
| Depth | 5.0 ft (2 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | steam, high-pressure twin engines, horizontally mounted 16" bore by 66", stroke, 17 horsepower nominal[1] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel |
Nez Perce Chief was a steamboat that operated on the upper Columbia River, in Washington, U.S., specifically the stretch of the river that began above the Celilo Falls. Her engines came from the Carrie Ladd, an important earlier sternwheeler.[1] Nez Perce Chief also ran up the Snake River to Lewiston, Idaho, a distance of 141 miles from the mouth of the Snake River near Wallula, Wash. Terr.[2]
- ^ a b c d e f Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 28, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 43, 83, and 205, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (1977 reprint of 1947 ed.) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7