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    Crest was a wooden steamboat that operated on Puget Sound in the early 1900s. Following a sale of the vessel in May, 1912, this boat was known as Bay Island...
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  • shapes of waves CREST syndrome, a limited form of the disease scleroderma Mountain crest, a geological feature Crest (1900 steamboat), which operated...
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  • Ending June 30, 1900. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. hdl:2027/hvd.hb1k9d. Steamboat-Inspection Service (1900), p. 52. Steamboat-Inspection Service...
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  • Athlon was a typical passenger steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. Athlon was built in Portland, Oregon by the J.H. Johnston yard. Her first...
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    Mississippi embayment is one of the most fertile regions of the United States; steamboats were widely used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to ship agricultural...
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    was a passenger steamboat built in 1900 which served on Puget Sound until it was destroyed by fire. Eagle was a smaller type of steamboat called a "steam...
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    Seine (category Venues of the 1900 Summer Olympics)
    test of his steamboat in the Seine beside the Tuileries Garden. Having a length of sixty-six feet and an eight-foot beam Fulton's steamboat attained speeds...
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    Dode was a steamboat that ran on Hood Canal and Puget Sound from 1898 to 1900. Dode was originally the schooner William J. Bryant. Prior to construction...
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    portal History portal Aviation portal Union-Castle Line Mail steamer Steamboat The first citation in The Times is from 18 August 1840. Royal Mails employees...
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    The steamboat Daily operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years, Daily was renamed Island Princess and later...
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  • during the event. Ice blocks in the river destroyed steamboats on the river, ending the era of steamboat commerce on the Ohio River. This storm caused the...
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    least for a time, by the Hunt Brothers, a family of steamboat owners and operators. As of the year 1900, the vessel was employed on the route from Tacoma...
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    Elwood was a sternwheel steamboat which was built to operate on the Willamette River, in Oregon, but which later operated on the Lewis River in Washington...
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  • The steamboat Elfin operated on Lake Washington and Puget Sound from 1891 to 1900. The vessel served as an important transportation link in the area when...
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    Civil Beat. Retrieved June 24, 2024. Lloyd, James T. (1856). Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters. Cincinnati, O.: J.T. Lloyd...
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    fire at Cairo, Illinois, on 28 December 1886. Since 1975, an excursion steamboat at New Orleans has borne the name Natchez. Such river commerce sustained...
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    Flyer was an American steamboat that served from 1891 to 1929 on Puget Sound. From 1918 until the end of her service, she was officially known as the...
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    General Frisbie (steamship) (category Steamboats of Washington (state))
    facility. In 1950 she was dismantled completely. Captain Zephaniah Hatch, a steamboat captain with experience on Puget Sound and the Columbia River, began providing...
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    short-lived, era of steamboat shipping during the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) purchased a number of steamboats from companies operating...
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    Provolt Rock Point Rogue Elk Sams Valley Seven Oaks Starvation Heights Steamboat Table Rock Tolo Union Creek Copper As is typical of southwestern Oregon...
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    to use powerboats on the lake, both legally and illegally. Windermere Steamboat Museum is located on Rayrigg Road in Bowness, and included a collection...
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    east are the ski resort communities of Aspen, Vail, Crested Butte, and Steamboat Springs. The northwestern corner of Colorado bordering Northern Utah and...
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    springs, and the ski resorts of Aspen, Breckenridge, Vail, Crested Butte, Steamboat Springs, and Telluride. Higher education in and near the Western Slope...
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    The steamboat Dauntless operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. Dauntless was built in 1899 by Matthew McDowell at Tacoma...
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    rivers with tributaries arising from the snow-covered Cascade Range. The crest of the Willamette flood was reached at Salem on December 3; at Oregon City...
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    the entire western portion of the Mississippi River drainage basin to the crest of the Rocky Mountains and land extending to the Rio Grande and West Florida...
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    v t e Steamboats of Puget Sound and western Washington State...
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  • Rabboni (steam tug) (category Steamboats of Washington (state))
    and was refitted for tow work in Alaska, but proved to be unsuccessful. In 1900, Rabboni, still owned by F.B. Cornwall, was rebuilt, and a new compound steeple-type...
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    a year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States...
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    1937 to generate revenue for schools and welfare. Passenger and freight steamboat service, once important throughout Chesapeake Bay and its many tributary...
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