&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Rainbow_(sternwheeler)_at_landing.png) Rainbow coming in to a landing.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rainbow |
| Owner | originally Charles E. Edwards, others later |
| Port of registry | Marshfield, Oregon |
| Launched | March 29, 1912 Coos Bay |
| In service | May 28, 1912 |
| Out of service | 1923 |
| Identification | U.S. 209654 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Inland passenger/freight |
| Length | 64.4 ft (19.63 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft (5.49 m) |
| Depth | 3.8 ft (1.16 m) depth of hold |
| Decks | two |
| Installed power | Twin steam engines, horizontally mounted. |
| Propulsion | Sternwheel |
| Capacity | 100 passengers |
| Crew | two (2) |
Rainbow was a sternwheel[1] steamboat that was operated in the Coos Bay region of Oregon from 1912 to 1923. Rainbow is sometimes referred to as a "launch", meaning a small steamboat.[2] This vessel's name is sometimes seen as Rain-Bow.[3]
- ^ This vessel is erroneously described as a sidewheeler in one source. Newell, ed., McCurdy Marine History, at page 344.
- ^ See for example "Sunday Run", Coos Bay Times, November 6, 1913, page 5, col. 4: "The launch Rainbow will leave here Sunday morning ..."
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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