Portland passing under the Steel Bridge in 2012
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Portland |
Owner | Oregon Maritime Museum[1] |
Port of registry | United States |
Builder | Northwest Marine Iron Works of Portland, Oregon[1] |
Cost | $472,000 ($6.44 million in today's dollars)[2] |
Launched | May 24, 1947[3] |
In service | August 29, 1947[1][3] |
Out of service | 1981 |
Status | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Type | Shallow draft inland tug |
Tonnage | |
Length | 219 ft (67 m)[2] |
Beam | 42.1 ft (12.8 m)[2] |
Draft | 5.5 ft (1.7 m)[2] |
Installed power | 2 × one-cylinder, 900 hp (670 kW) steam engines[2] |
Propulsion | 25 ft (7.6 m) diameter, 26 ft (7.9 m) wide stern paddlewheel[2] |
Crew | two 7-man shifts and 1 cook[2] |
Portland (steam tug) | |
Location | Portland, Oregon, berthed on the Willamette River at the foot of SW Pine Street |
Coordinates | 45°31′13″N 122°40′11″W / 45.520142°N 122.669768°W |
Built | 1947 |
Built by | Northwest Marine Iron Works |
NRHP reference No. | 97000847[5][6] |
Added to NRHP | August 14, 1997[6] |
Portland (or the Portland) is a sternwheel steamboat built in 1947 for the Port of Portland, Oregon, in the United States.[7]
The Portland is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and presently hosts the Oregon Maritime Museum which owns the vessel. The vessel is moored at the Willamette River seawall next to Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland.[7]
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