Steamboats of Yaquina Bay and Yaquina River

Steamer Newport, with barge lashed on, and launch Beaver departing Newport for Yaquina, c. 1910

Yaquina Bay, like Coos Bay, is a shallow coastal bay on the Oregon Coast in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The principal town on Yaquina Bay is Newport, Oregon. The Yaquina River flows into the bay. Until modern roads reached Newport in the late 1920s, the principal transportation method to and from Newport was by ship or boat.