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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 ...
In 1914, Carl Herman, who owned a boatyard at Prosper, Oregon, built the Telegraph for the Myrtle Point Transportation Company, which competed with the gasoline-powered propeller Charm on the Coquille River. [4] [3] Telegraph was (by one source) the last steamboat on the Coquille River. Her owners were able to secure a mail contract for her ...
Echo was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River on the Southern Oregon Coast from 1901 to 1910. [1] ... Steamboats of the Coquille River; Echo ...
From August 6, 1908, to March 3, 1910, Favorite was running on the following schedule on the Coquille River set by its owners, the Coquille River Transportation Company: two trips a day running between Bandon and Coquille City, departing from Bandon at 6:45 am, and 1:20 p.m, and departing from Coquille City at 9:15 am and at 4:00 p.m. [12] [13]
Ride the Coos Bay Rail Line in Coquille. The most recent rail riding news comes from the small town of Coquille in Southern Oregon, about 15 miles from the Oregon Coast.
Coquille was a steamboat built in 1908 for service on the Coquille River and its tributaries. Coquille served as a passenger vessel from 1908 to 1916, when the boat was transferred to the lower Columbia River. Coquille was reconstructed into a log boom towing boat, and served in this capacity from 1916 to 1935 or later.
Apr. 23—Coquille's Callie Millet had a big personal best to place second in the javelin at the Oregon Relays on Friday night, the highest finish by a South Coast athlete in the event that ...
Liberty was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River and then on Coos Bay from 1903 to 1918. Liberty was notable for having its ownership entangled in various legal claims in the early 1910s, including some involving a colorful North Bend, Oregon business promoter Lorenzo Dow "Major" Kinney (1855-1920).