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Columbia Valley to the headwaters of the river at Columbia Lake. Small sternwheelers like Marion played an important role in development by allowing miners...

odd-shaped steamer to make enough money in 1887 to have a new sternwheeler built, also called Duchess. Armstrong hired the veteran shipbuilder Alexander Watson...

previously installed in other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, including the first Duchess, the second Duchess and Ptarmigan. The blunt-ended...

previously installed in two other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, specifically the first Duchess, and the second Duchess. The blunt-ended bow of Ptarmigan...

v t e Steamboats of the Columbia River headwaters Steamboats Duchess (1886) Duchess (1888) Marion (1888) Pert (1890) Annerly (1892) Hyak (1892) Gwendoline...

wrecked in Jennings Canyon in May 1897 in a collision with Ruth, another sternwheeler of the Upper Columbia Navigation & Tramway Co. Both vessels were bound...

Northwest, at 174, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966 Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs -- An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...

Louis Pacquet from Portland, Oregon to build a comparable vessel, the sternwheeler North Star. Captain M. L. McCormack commanded Farrell on the vessel's...

houseboat and hotel. Her engines were removed and installed in a new sternwheeler, 'Klahowya. The vessel remained in houseboat use until 1914. McCurdy...

able to raise Duchess from the river bottom. He then applied the odd-shaped steamer to make enough money in 1887 to have a new sternwheeler built, also...

Kootenay river were made hazardous by the Jennings Canyon. Of the six sternwheelers that were employed on the upper Kootenay River, only Annerly was not...

Portland, Oregon, for Capt. Frank P. Armstrong (1859-1923). Armstrong ran sternwheelers on the Kootenay and Columbia rivers under the name of the Upper Columbia...

existence. In 1902, on the last use by a vessel, the sternwheeler North Star, the sternwheeler's captain, Frank P. Armstrong deliberately blew out the...

This vessel should not be confused with the much larger Yukon River sternwheeler Selkirk. Selkirk was built by Alexander Watson, an experienced shipbuilder...

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...

river Mascot, a typical wooden-hulled sternwheeler, "wooding up", circa 1900 Portland, steel-hulled sternwheeler, 1996 Ex Maja, US #93295. Ex N.S. Bentley...

in Hoosier No. 3 to E.M. White and with his associates purchased the sternwheeler James Clinton and ran her until April 23, 1861, when the Clinton was...

In 1879 the name was changed to Princess Louise, after Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, a daughter of Queen Victoria who was married to Marquess of...

Grey Cup. The Sprague, famous as "the world's largest steam-powered sternwheeler towboat," with the power to push as many as 56 loaded barges, created...

Victoria JW Doane and Thomas Wright sternwheeler Canada G.B. Wright Built at Quesnel in 1868 Berthed at Alexandria 1886 SS Vigilant Volunteer (ship) James...