Telegraph was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1903 in Everett, Washington. Except for the summer of 1905, from 1903 to 1912, Telegraph served in...
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steamboat in Oregon, United States Telegraph (sternwheeler 1903), a steamboat in Oregon and Washington, United States Telegraph Media Group, publisher of UK...
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both the dog and the broom. In 1903, Greyhound was replaced on the Everett route by Telegraph, then a new sternwheeler. Greyhound was sold to a firm that...
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the southern Oregon coast from 1903 to 1920. The name of this vessel is sometimes seen spelled Despatch. This sternwheeler should not be confused with an...
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The Moyie is a paddle steamer sternwheeler that operated on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia from 1898 until 1957. After her nearly sixty years of service...
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seem to have been served by the river boats. In 1914, Telegraph (96 tons), the largest sternwheeler ever to serve on the Coquille, was built for the Myrtle...
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v t e Ships of the Mosquito Fleet Propellers Sternwheelers Bailey Gatzert Capital City Chehalis City of Shelton Clara Brown Comet Daisy Elwood Enterprise...
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Columbia River Indeed, Telephone was reputed to have been "the fastest sternwheeler in the world." Telephone No. 1 replaced the propeller-driven steamer...
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was much smaller than the 1903 Bandon-built sternwheeler Liberty. Unlike the 1889 propeller Liberty, the 1903 sternwheeler Liberty (U.S. registry number...
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Cowlitz river from 1902 to the 1920s. The company added the shallow-draft sternwheeler Cowlitz in 1917. Milton Smith moved the company's headquarters from Kelso...
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Capital City in 1901. The vessel was resold to McDonald Steamship Co. in 1903, resold to Olympia-Tacoma Navigation Co. in 1904, and resold again to Dallas...
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SS Sicamous is a large, four-decked sternwheeler commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and was built by the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding...
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and these were taken back to Gardiner to regroup. In the week of June 16, 1903, Eva was hauled out on a mud flat for repairs. During this time, Eva's place...
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relaunched in 1912 on the Fraser River. Detailed articles cover the sternwheelers Skeena, Operator, and Conveyor and their roles on the Skeena River,...
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Myrtle Point, these were the propeller Reta (18 registered tons) the sternwheeler Echo (53 registered tons) and Welcome (21 registered tons). Between these...
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wharf at Alder Street, in Portland, the Stark Street Ferry ran into the sternwheeler. Elwood's fantail was badly damaged, as was the tackle on the ferry....
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The river sternwheeler Ramona operated from 1892 to 1908 on the Willamette River in Oregon, on the Stikine River running from Wrangell, Alaska into British...
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Barnard's Express (section The sternwheeler years)
already well known in the area, as he had been the captain of the local sternwheeler Charlotte. The captain of the BC Express was Joseph Bucey, an experienced...
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watershed was on the Athabasca River in 1882, and its name was SS Grahame, a sternwheeler built by the HBC, operating from Athabasca Landing north of Edmonton...
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1882, built in Astoria, should not be confused with another, larger sternwheeler, also named Montesano, built-in Cosmopolis, Washington, in 1889. Montesano...
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Joshua Green (October 16, 1869 – January 24, 1975) was an American sternwheeler captain, businessman, and banker. He rose from being a seaman to being...
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Bailey Gatzert inspired several other sternwheelers, including the 1897 Arrow Lakes, British Columbia sternwheeler Rossland and, much later, the M/V Columbia...
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(15 April 1834 – 9 March 1912) and grandson Sir William Johnstone Keswick (1903–90) served at HBC; the former as a director and later as governor from 1952...
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Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6 Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs – An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...
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Tillamook Bay. The boats were all very small, nothing like the big sternwheelers and propeller boats that ran on the Columbia River or Puget Sound. There...
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Lady of the Lake (1897 steamboat) (redirect from Ruth (steam tug 1903))
wooden steamboat that operated on Puget Sound from 1897 to 1903. Following a fire in 1903, the vessel was rebuilt as the tug Ruth. In January 1897, Captain...
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home to about 1,300 people. The only established communities are Iskut, Telegraph Creek and Bob Quinn Lake, all in British Columbia. Dease Lake is located...
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river Mascot, a typical wooden-hulled sternwheeler, "wooding up", circa 1900 Portland, steel-hulled sternwheeler, 1996 Ex Maja, US #93295. Ex N.S. Bentley...
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Gertrude (1903) Athlon (1903) Columbia Queen (1903) Dode (1903) Evangel (1903) Fairhaven (1903) Garland (1903) Inland Flyer (1903) Lydia Thompson (1903) Majestic...
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Soda Creek where the sternwheeler Charlotte would take them to Quesnel. From Quesnel it was a ten-day hike along the Yukon Telegraph Trail to the Nechako...
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