• wood, the sternwheeler Harvest Queen attempted to land alongside, but in so doing crashed into and nearly wrecked Sarah Dixon. Sarah Dixon was struck...
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  • 1894, Lurline, under Captain James T. Gray, collided with the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon, under Captain George M. Shaver, in a thick fog near Kalama, Washington...
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  • 1908, the company built the sternwheelers Shaver and a new Dixon as replacements for the old G.W. Shaver and Sarah Dixon. Typical for steamboats built...
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    Shaver Transportation intended for No Wonder to take the place of Sarah Dixon. Sarah Dixon had been built primarily for passenger work, but was being employed...
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    October 20, 1893, Mascot collided with the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon at St. Helens, Oregon. Mascot and Dixon usually approached the St. Helens waterfront...
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    Paquet & Smith, for the price of $25,000, with directions to construct a sternwheeler at any point between Cascades Locks and The Dalles, to be finished by...
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    and lower Willamette rivers. La Center was small compared to other sternwheelers of the Columbia River. However, despite a number of accidents, including...
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    group, with Lurline in the lead, followed by Ocean Wave, Telephone, Sarah Dixon, and T.J. Potter. Every boat was crowded to its fullest. The Potter reached...
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    was named after the company's founder, Joseph Kellogg (1812-1903). The sternwheeler Joseph Kellogg was built in 1881 at Portland, Oregon. Joseph Kellogg...
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    as a ferry between Astoria and Megler, Washington, and the then new sternwheeler Lewiston, built in 1923 and operating on the Snake River. At the time...
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    Fares on that route $2 per round trip, at least as charged by the sternwheeler Sarah Dixon, which was just then being placed on the route. The rumor was that...
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    portage railroad, to The Dalles, Oregon, where it was loaded on the sternwheeler Charles R. Spencer for further transport downriver. Open River company...
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    Mining Museum MacBride Museum of Yukon History Miles Canyon SS Klondike sternwheeler Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre Yukon Transportation Museum In the...
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    by Captain McDonald included the tug Pilot and the sternwheeler Clan McDonald. Another sternwheeler operating in these waters was the T.C. Reed. In about...
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    (sternwheeler) Oneonta Orient Otter Pearl Portland (1875) Portland (1947) Quickstep R.R. Thompson Rabboni Regulator Relief (1906) Robert Young Sarah Dixon...
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    (sternwheeler) Oneonta Orient Otter Pearl Portland (1875) Portland (1947) Quickstep R.R. Thompson Rabboni Regulator Relief (1906) Robert Young Sarah Dixon...
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    Cowlitz in 1894, and then somehow burned during the attempted salvage. The sternwheeler Dalles City sank on February 8, 1906, after striking a rock in the upper...
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    with Shaver Transportation, whereby the Shaver boats, including the Sarah Dixon, would stay off the Portland-Astoria route in return for a monthly subsidy...
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    location of proposed Celilo Canal and locks Celilo Canal and lock, 1915 Sternwheeler Umatilla in Celilo Canal[permanent dead link] First steamboats to pass...
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  • organized a small revival of the steamboat business, buying the old sternwheeler Cascades of the Columbia from Shaver Transportation Company and organizing...
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    Cascade Locks[permanent dead link] Maria, Dalles City, Harvest Queen and Sarah Dixon waiting to lock through on the opening day of Cascades Locks, November...
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  • and North Star. Steamboats of Columbia River, Wenatchee Reach crew of sternwheeler post by lifeboat company steamboats and town, circa 1910 Newell, Gordon...
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  • Washington Press. pp. 372, 435, 445, 455–456. ISBN 0-295-97485-0. Mills, Sternwheelers up Columbia, at 90-94 Timmen, Blow for the Landing, at 75-76 McCurdy...
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    arrival at Victoria from the Columbia River. From Fort Langley, the sternwheeler Enterprise, under Capt. Tom Wright (1828–1906), took or at least endeavored...
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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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    merchants from Oregon City, in 1854 or 1855 to build the Jenny Clark, a sternwheeler on the Willamette. Kamm owned half of the Jenny Clark, Ainsworth owned...
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    In January 1878, new boilers were built for the Hayward and another sternwheeler, the New Tenino, at the Willamette Iron Works. Each boiler would be 30...
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  • (sternwheeler) Oneonta Orient Otter Pearl Portland (1875) Portland (1947) Quickstep R.R. Thompson Rabboni Regulator Relief (1906) Robert Young Sarah Dixon...
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    In 1906, Callendar Navigation Co. was the Astoria agent for the fast sternwheeler Telegraph. By 1908, the company had become an agent for North Pacific...
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    to work the lower Columbia. By 1878, OSN had added to its fleet the sternwheelers Harvest Queen, John Gates, Spokane, Annie Faxon, Mountain Queen, R.R...
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