Otter in a shipyard on Puget Sound, unknown date.
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History | |
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Name | Otter |
Route | Puget Sound, Columbia River, Lake Washington, Stikine River |
In service | 1874 |
Out of service | 1897 |
Identification | US registry #19407[1] |
Fate | Abandoned 1897 |
General characteristics | |
Type | inland steamboat |
Length | 87 ft (26.52 m)[2] |
Beam | 18 ft (5.49 m)[2] |
Depth | 6 ft (1.83 m) depth of hold[2] |
Installed power | twin steam engines (from steamer Mary Belle), horizontally mounted; cylinder bores 14 in (35.6 cm); stroke 30 in (76.2 cm) 13 indicated horsepower. |
Propulsion | sternwheel |
Otter was a wooden sternwheel steamboat that was used in Puget Sound and briefly on the Columbia and Stikine rivers from 1874 to 1897.