&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Ptarmigan_(sternwheeler)_on_Columbia_River_ca_1905.JPG) Ptarmigan
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| History | |
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 Canada | |
| Name | Ptarmigan, CAN #111950[1] |
| Owner | Upper Columbia Navig. & Tramway Co.; Columbia River Lumber Co. |
| Operator | Frank P. Armstrong |
| Port of registry | Golden, BC |
| Route | Inland British Columbia on the Columbia River in the Columbia Valley |
| Launched | 1903 at Golden, BC |
| Fate | Dismantled 1909, engines to Nowitka |
| Notes | Sank in 1907 but raised; caught fire 1907, upper works destroyed, reconstructed and operated for another year |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 246.5 gross tons; 155 registered tons |
| Length | 110 ft (34 m) |
| Beam | 20.5 ft (6 m) |
| Depth | 4.0 ft (1 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, 8" bore by 30" stroke, 2 nominal horsepower, manufactured 1840 by G.A. Ponbriand, Sorel, Que. |
| Propulsion | sternwheel |
| Notes | Engines were over 60 years old when installed. |
Ptarmigan was a sternwheel steamboat that operated in British Columbia on the Columbia River from 1903 to 1909.
- ^ Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 58, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X