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    Gazelle was an early sidewheeler on the Willamette River in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon. She did not operate long, suffering a catastrophic boiler...
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  • that operated in Oregon, US, 1905–1929 Gazelle (sidewheeler 1854), a steamboat that operated in Oregon, US GAZelle, a series of mid-sized trucks, vans and...
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    Jersey, and three deaths in or offshore from North Carolina 24+ 1854 Gazelle (1854 sidewheeler) Accident – explosion Canemah, Oregon 24 1881 1881 Minnesota...
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    was present in 1854 at Canemah, when the new steamer Gazelle was destroyed by a boiler explosion. On April 8, 1854, at 6:30 a.m., Gazelle had come over...
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    Falls Company. On March 17, 1854, the Willamette Falls Company placed into service a new steamer, the side-wheeler Gazelle, giving the company, briefly...
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  • no photo artist in those days to make a truthful picture of this poor sidewheeler as she struggled and panted against tide and current, doing her four...
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    celebrants out from Champoeg for a three-mile (5 km) excursion cruise on July 4, 1854. Captain White sold Fenix to Captain Hereford, who with others in the Willamette...
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    1857 and 1861 in Oregon and in British Columbia. Portland was a small sidewheeler, 90 ft (27.4 m) long, launched at Portland on July 2, 1853. Built by...
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    Canemah carried territorial governor Joseph Lane and other officials. In 1854 the Hedges partners sold Canemah to the Citizens Accommodation Line, a concern...
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    travel on the portage road along the north bank, and then board the sidewheeler Mary upriver to the next head of navigation, The Dalles. Freight charges...
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    caulking unnecessary. The Multnomah was a sidewheeler, as were all the boats operating in Oregon before 1854. The vessel's funnel was equipped with a spark...
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    made to sell her to the California Steam Navigation Company. On August 12, 1854 the famous Columbia Bar pilot Captain George Flavel took her out into the...
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    Chief No Wonder North Pacific North Star Northwest Ocean Wave Olympian (sidewheeler) Olympian (sternwheeler) Oneonta Orient Otter Pearl Portland (1875) Portland...
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    Wright was able to replace Sea Bird by purchasing an interest in the sidewheeler Eliza Anderson, and arranging to have the Anderson brought from Portland...
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  • Shoalwater (1852) Belle (1853) Fenix (1853) Portland (1853) Wallamet (1853) Gazelle (1854) Enterprise (1855) Jennie Clark (1855) Franklin (1855) Señorita (1855)...
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    Ainsworth joined with Abernathy and Clark, merchants from Oregon City, in 1854 or 1855 to build the Jenny Clark, a sternwheeler on the Willamette. Kamm...
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    anyone intent on making him return to Germany. Making his way westward in 1854, he lived in turn at Cincinnati; Belleville, Illinois, and Peoria, Illinois...
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  • striking ground X = Explosion of boiler Stern = sternwheeler Side = sidewheeler Prop = propeller-driven GT = Gross Tons; RT = Registered Tons YB = Year...
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    Minnie Holmes ex Fenix), and Canemah. In addition, a sixth vessel, the sidewheeler Portland was being brought up around the falls. James Clinton made its...
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    Portland to Vancouver, Washington in one hour and twenty minutes. Another sidewheeler on the Willamette River at this time was the Mississippi-style Wallamet...
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    was later raised. Oregon hit a snag on the Willamette in 1854, was bumped loose by Gazelle (herself later to explode at Canemah not much later), then...
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    first steamboat appeared on the upper Willamette. This was the small sidewheeler Hoosier. Although small and crude, Hoosier was capable of hauling much...
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    Willamette Chief was capable of high speed, and once was able to outrace the sidewheeler Oneonta After the Willamette Chief was taken off the wheat trade she...
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    Chief No Wonder North Pacific North Star Northwest Ocean Wave Olympian (sidewheeler) Olympian (sternwheeler) Oneonta Orient Otter Pearl Portland (1875) Portland...
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    Shoalwater (1852) Belle (1853) Fenix (1853) Portland (1853) Wallamet (1853) Gazelle (1854) Enterprise (1855) Jennie Clark (1855) Franklin (1855) Señorita (1855)...
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    1851, Black Hawk had to carry the freight and passengers of the new sidewheeler Lot Whitcomb, when the Whitcomb, a much larger vessel, broke a few paddle...
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    Point Roberts. Running against Bellingham were the Utopia and the old sidewheeler George E. Starr, both owned by the Puget Sound Navigation Company. On...
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    four or five weeks. The firm of Hedges & Barlow were building a new sidewheeler, the Canemah, which they expected to have running sometime in September...
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    Americans with poles, oars and sails. When in 1851, the first steamboat, the sidewheeler Canemah was brought to the upper Willamette River, Pease became a deckhand...
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    propellers and shafts from rocks and other obstructions in the river. Sidewheelers were too difficult to steer and needed expensive dock facilities. Jennie...
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