Beaver (1873 sternwheeler)
Beaver was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1873 for the Willamette Transportation Company.
Beaver (sternwheel steamboat) | |
History | |
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Owner | Willamette Transportation Co., Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Co. |
Route | Willamette, lower Columbia, and Stikine rivers |
Launched | August 21, 1873, at Portland |
In service | 1873 |
Identification | US registry # 2889 |
Fate | May 17, 1878, hit rock and sank on Stikine River |
General characteristics | |
Type | Shallow draft inland passenger/freighter |
Tonnage | 292 gross register tons |
Length | 125 ft (38.1 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Depth | 5.0 ft (1.5 m) depth of hold |
Installed power | Steam, twin high pressure horizontally mounted, single-cylinder engines, 14-inch bore by 48-inch stroke, 13 hp (9.7 kW) nominal |
Propulsion | sternwheel |
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