&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Pert_(steamboat)_at_Canal_Flats_1894.JPG) Pert
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Pert |
| Owner | Upper Columbia Navigation & Tramway Co.[1] |
| Port of registry |  Canada |
| Route | Inland British Columbia on the Columbia River in the Columbia Valley |
| Builder | Fred Wells |
| Out of service | Abandoned 1905 |
| Identification | CAN #107826[2] |
| Fate | Abandoned 1905 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 6.5 gross tons; 4 registered tons |
| Length | 50 ft (15 m) |
| Beam | 10 ft (3 m) |
| Depth | 2.6 ft (1 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | unpowered bateau 1887–1890; converted to sidewheel and first steam engine installed 1890, details unknown; second engine installed 1900: high-pressure single-cylinder vertically mounted 5-inch bore by 6-inch stroke, 6.44 nominal horsepower, built by Albion Iron Works. |
| Propulsion | sidewheels |
Pert was a sidewheel steamboat that operated in British Columbia on the Columbia River from 1887 to 1905, often transporting large loads of timber. Pert was also known as Alert and City of Windermere at times.
- ^ McCurdy, H.W., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 191, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966 ISBN 0-87564-220-9
- ^ Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 57, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X