&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Shoshone_(sternwheeler)_circa_1872.jpg) Shoshone, on the Willamette River, at Portland, Oregon, circa 1872
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| History | |
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| Name | Shoshone |
| Owner | Oregon Steam Navigation Company[1] |
| Route | upper Snake River, Willamette River |
| In service | 1866[1] (out of service for some time following construction) |
| Out of service | November 1874[1] |
| Identification | US 23961[1] |
| Fate | Wrecked on Willamette River near Salem, Oregon[1] |
| Notes | First of only two steamboats to travel down Hells Canyon |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | shallow draft inland passenger-freighter |
| Tonnage | 300 gross[2] |
| Length | 136 ft (41 m)[1] |
| Beam | 27 ft (8 m)[1] |
| Depth | 4.5 ft (1 m) depth of hold[1] |
| Installed power | steam, twin high pressure horizontally mounted, single-cylinder engines, 16" bore by 48" stroke, 16 hp (12 kW) nominal[1] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel[2] |
The Shoshone was the first steamboat built on the Snake River, Idaho, above Hells Canyon and the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon to the lower Snake River. This was considered one of the most astounding feats of steamboat navigation ever accomplished.[3]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ a b Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 43, 82, 132-35, 201, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE (1977 reprint of 1947 ed.) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
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