Willamette River Navigation Co.,[1] Oregon Steam Navigation Co.
Route
Willamette River[1]
Builder
J.F. Steffen* of Portland, Oregon[2]
Maiden voyage
March 23, 1874[2]
Identification
US registry #80405; #80701 (after rebuild)
Fate
1894, burned at Portland
Type
shallow draft inland passenger/freighter
Tonnage
586 gross; after rebuild 524[1] or 693[3]
Length
163 ft (49.7 m)[1]
Beam
31.0 ft (9.4 m); after rebuild: 31.0 ft (9 m)[1]
Depth
6.0 ft (1.8 m) depth of hold; after rebuild: 6.0 ft (2 m)[1]
Installed power
steam, twin high pressure horizontally mounted, single-cylinder engines, 20" bore by 60" stroke, 26 horsepower nominal[1]
Propulsion
sternwheel[3]
Willamette Chief was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1874 for the Willamette River Navigation Company.
^ abcdefgAffleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 14, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
^ abWright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 213-14, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR 1895
^ abMills, Randall V., Sternwheelers up Columbia -- A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country, at 63, 103, 126-27, 143, 203, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE (1977 reprint of 1947 ed.) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
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