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Coos Bay is a large and mostly shallow harbor on Oregon's southwest coast, to the north of the Coquille River valley. It is the major harbor on the west coast of the United States between San Francisco and the mouth of the Columbia River. Two steamboat captains from the Columbia River began steamboat operations on Coos Bay in 1873. Inland ...
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The first steamboat built and launched on the Willamette was Lot Whitcomb, launched at Milwaukie, Oregon, in 1850. Lot Whitcomb was 160 feet (49 m) long, had 24-foot (7.3 m) beam, 5 feet (1.5 m) of draft, and 600 gross tons. [3] Her engines were designed by Jacob Kamm, built in the eastern United States, then shipped in pieces to Oregon. [4]
Marshall, Don, Oregon Shipwrecks, Binford and Mort, Portland, OR 1984 ISBN 0-8323-0430-1 Mills, Randall V. , Sternwheelers up Columbia – A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country , University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE 1947 (1977 printing by Bison Press) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
Sidewheel steamboat Coos, sometime before 1895. The Coos Bay Mosquito Fleet comprised numerous small steamboats and motor vessels which operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on Coos Bay, a large and mostly shallow harbor on the southwest coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, to the north of the Coquille River valley.
Coquille River, Oregon 33 10.1 1892 Mudhen [N 112] prop genl 1890 Okanagan Lake, BC 1896 D Multnomah: side psgr 1851 Oregon City, Oregon 108 32.9 1864 D Multnomah: 91765 stern psgr 1885 East Portland, Oregon 143 43.6 313 278 1889 T-PS Multnomah: 203158 prop psgr 1906 Portland, Oregon 71 21.6 42 34 1907 O Multnomah [2] dredge
The entire Yaquina Bay area (and large portions of the Oregon coast to the north and south) had been set aside in the 1850s as the Coast Indian Reservation. [2] This did not last long, and on January 8, 1866, the Yaquina Bay area was opened up to white settlement.
The Belle of Oregon City, generally referred to as Belle, was built in 1853, and was the first iron steamboat built on the west coast of North America. [ 2 ] Design and construction