For other uses, see General Miles (disambiguation).
General Miles at dock in Ilwaco, some time between 1882 and 1889.
History
Name
General Miles, later Willapa, Bellingham, and Norco
Owner
Ilwaco Rwy & Nav. Co.; Portland Coast & Steamship Co.; Island Trans. Co.; Alaska Steamship Co.; Canadian-Pacific Nav. Co.; Bellingham Bay Trans. Co.; Inland Nav. Co.; Thompson Steamship Co.; Puget Sound Nav. Co.; Straits Steamship Co.; Northland Trans. Co.
Route
Columbia River, Grays Harbor, Coos Bay, Tillamook Bay, San Juan Islands, Puget Sound, Vancouver Island, Inside Passage, Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Launched
June 15, 1882[3]
In service
1882
Out of service
1950
Identification
General Miles: US registry #85370;[1]Bellingham: #81313, flag signal letters KDJN.[2]
Fate
Scrapped and deliberately burned
General characteristics
Type
Coastal vessel
Tonnage
as built: gross: 127;[1]1st rebuild: 333 gross, 249 regist.[2]
Length
As built: 100 ft (30.48 m); rebuilt: 136 ft (41.45 m), later 140 ft (42.67 m)
Beam
22 ft (6.71 m)
Depth
10.5 ft (3.20 m) depth of hold
Decks
two (2)
Installed power
steam engine; as of 1891 reported as compound, cylinder bores (high pressure) 16 in (40.6 cm) and (low pressure) 32 in (81.3 cm); stroke 32 in (81.3 cm);[3][4] Unpowered from 1919 to 1922, when a 200 horsepower (150 kW) Fairbanks-Morse semi-diesel engine was installed.
General Miles was a steamship constructed in 1882 which served in various coastal areas of the states of Oregon and Washington, as well as British Columbia and the territory of Alaska. It was apparently named after US General Nelson A. Miles.
Originally a sailing schooner built in 1879, the General Miles was extensively reconstructed in 1890 and renamed Willapa. In 1903 the name was changed again to Bellingham. After a conversion to diesel power in 1922, the vessel was renamed Norco. The vessel is notable for, among other things, for having been first a sailing vessel from 1879 to 1882, a steamship from 1882 to 1918, a sailing barge from 1919 to 1922, and a motor vessel (diesel-powered) from 1922 to 1950.
^ abcFeagans, Railroad that Ran by the Tide, at pages 17, 135, and 137.
^ abU.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Bureau of Statistics, Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States (for year ending June 30, 1909), at page 41.
^ abCite error: The named reference Lewis was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Turner, Pacific Princesses gives engine dimensions as 26 in (66.0 cm) and 32 in (81.3 cm); stroke 28 in (71.1 cm), but this appears to be at least in part an error, as the high-pressure cylinder is much too large.
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