Otter (sternwheeler)

Otter in a shipyard on Puget Sound, unknown date.
History
NameOtter
RoutePuget Sound, Columbia River, Lake Washington, Stikine River
In service1874
Out of service1897
IdentificationUS registry #19407[1]
FateAbandoned 1897
General characteristics
Typeinland steamboat
Length87 ft (26.52 m)[2]
Beam18 ft (5.49 m)[2]
Depthft (1.83 m) depth of hold[2]
Installed powertwin steam engines (from steamer Mary Belle), horizontally mounted; cylinder bores 14 in (35.6 cm); stroke 30 in (76.2 cm) 13 indicated horsepower.
Propulsionsternwheel

Otter was a wooden sternwheel steamboat that was used in Puget Sound and briefly on the Columbia and Stikine rivers from 1874 to 1897.

  1. ^ Affleck, Century of Paddlewheelers, p. 22.
  2. ^ a b c Lewis and Dryden Marine History, p. 215.