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    Kirkland was a sidewheel steamboat that ran on Lake Washington from 1888 to 1898. Kirkland was built in 1888 by T.W. Lake for the Jackson Street Cable...
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    including stops en route. Captain Wilson, then in command of the inland sidewheeler North Pacific (488 GT), and his purser, would be shifted over to be in...
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    Kirkland was visited by President Benjamin Harrison to investigate possibility of a Lake Washington Ship Canal in 1890. He arrived on sidewheeler Kirkland...
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    Portland, Oregon for the Columbia River Steam Navigation Company. She was a sidewheeler driven by a low-pressure boiler generating steam for a single-cylinder...
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    The sidewheeler Idaho was a steamboat that ran on the Columbia River and Puget Sound from 1860 to 1898. There is some confusion as to the origins of the...
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    had run the pioneer sidewheeler Eliza Anderson on the Sound, and had recently replaced the Anderson with the faster sidewheeler Olympia (later known...
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    Puget Sound was the Beaver, starting in the late 1830s. Beaver was a sidewheeler built in London, which reached the Northwest under sail, with her paddle...
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    Building and Engine Works shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania. She was a sidewheeler driven by a single cylinder vertical condensing walking-beam steam engine...
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    Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. Princess Louise was the last sidewheeler to be operated commercially on the coast of British Columbia. Olympia...
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    the then recent loss of the General Slocum in New York, also a wooden sidewheeler, in which over 1,000 people had been killed in a fire, and the resulting...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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  • Capt. Lester A. Bailey (b.1850), who had previously commanded the large sidewheeler Olympian on the route from Portland to Ilwaco. Others who served on Ocean...
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    amounted to the same thing. A boiler explosion occurred on board the sidewheeler New World just above Benicia, California during a race with the Wilson...
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    failed to get effective support in the Savannah River from the three sidewheeler gunboats of the Georgia Navy. Although again blamed by the press for...
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  • Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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  • During the summers, always the busiest season, steamers such as the sidewheeler T. J. Potter brought vacation crowds from Portland, Oregon, down the...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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  • a donation from the Foss company in 1970. Save Our Ships was based in Kirkland, on Lake Washington, throughout the 1970s, eventually changed its name...
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  • Commission, who spoke at the ceremony. In 1931 Leschi was rebuilt. The sidewheelers were removed and the ferry was converted to propeller drive. The steam...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Harrison visited Seattle in 1891, he was taken around the lake on the sidewheeler Kirkland, with the Calkins (and other ships) travelling as escorts, with the...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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    Wenat WT Preston Zephyr Sidewheelers Alaskan Beaver Cyrus Walker Eliza Anderson Fairy George E. Starr Idaho King County Kirkland Leschi North Pacific Ocean...
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