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    R. R. Thompson was a large sternwheel steamboat designed in the classic Columbia River style. She was named after Robert R. Thompson, one of the shareholders...
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  • the run up from Portland in the company of another famous sternwheeler, the R.R. Thompson, the Lurline having also embarked an army band from Vancouver...
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    Olympia-Tacoma-Seattle route. In 1890, Hassalo collided with the smaller sternwheeler Otter, damaging Otter beyond repair. In 1892 Hassalo was returned to...
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    Thompson and Columbia rivers in British Columbia from 1895 to 1917. This vessel should not be confused with the much larger Yukon River sternwheeler Selkirk...
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    Hazelton was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada from 1901 until 1912. Her first owner was Robert Cunningham who...
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    not so severe. On August 25, 1892, Telephone collided with the sternwheeler R.R. Thompson at Rainer, Oregon, on the Columbia River. The case was investigated...
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    Skeena River from the coast to Hazelton from 1864 to 1912. The first sternwheeler to arrive on the Skeena River was the Union, which was owned and operated...
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    ISBN 9785884013193 R. Mills, Sternwheelers up Columbia, c 1979 University of Nebraska, Lincoln ISBN 0-8032-5874-7 Newell, Gordon R., H.W. McCurdy Marine...
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    Louis Pacquet from Portland, Oregon to build a comparable vessel, the sternwheeler North Star. Captain M. L. McCormack commanded Farrell on the vessel's...
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    R.P. Rithet was a sternwheel steamer that operated in British Columbia from 1882 to 1917. The common name for this vessel was the Rithet. After 1909 this...
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    steamboat were used on inland waterways: propeller, side-wheeler, and sternwheeler. Propellers required deeper draft than was commonly available on inland...
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  • Thumbnail for Mount Royal (sternwheeler)
    Mount Royal was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River and Stikine Rivers in British Columbia, Canada, from 1902 until 1907. She was named after...
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    the second sternwheeler to run on the Arrow Lakes. This vessel should not be confused with the similarly named Kootenay, an 1897 sternwheeler that also...
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    1916, was the natural outlet of Lake Washington. Starting in 1874, the sternwheeler Otter also ran on the Duwamish. In March 1877 Wenat was laid up in Seattle...
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  • Thumbnail for John Irving (steamship captain)
    became a partner in the Victoria Steam Navigation Company and built two sternwheelers, the Governor Douglas and the Colonel Moody to serve between New Westminster...
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    in 1940. This vessel should not be confused with the Colorado River sternwheeler Undine. Undine was built by J.H. Steffen for Jacob Kamm and launched...
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    against the BC Express Company's sternwheelers, the Fort George Lumber and Trading Company built a third sternwheeler, again by Donald McPhee in 1910,...
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    Saanich, British Columbia North Shore Mountains North Star (sternwheeler 1897) North Thompson River North Vancouver (district municipality) November 2021...
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    steamers of the Union Pacific Railroad, which included the large sternwheeler R.R. Thompson. Supported by Astoria businessmen, Astorian was running in connection...
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    The Inlander was a sternwheeler that worked on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada, from 1910 until 1912. She was owned by the Prince Rupert and...
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    Astoria, Oregon in the 1890s. Occident was considered a twin vessel to the sternwheeler OrientOccident was described as a freight steamer. Occident was built...
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    The Conveyor was one of five sternwheelers built for the use on the Skeena River by Foley, Welch and Stewart for construction work on the Grand Trunk...
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    by the Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company to replace the sternwheeler Columbia which had burned in 1894. Capt. James W. Troup, the company's...
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    col.1. Robert R. Thompson was a major shareholder in the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. The large and fast sternwheeler R.R. Thompson was named after...
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  • Thumbnail for Bailey Gatzert (sternwheeler)
    Bailey Gatzert inspired several other sternwheelers, including the 1897 Arrow Lakes, British Columbia sternwheeler Rossland and, much later, the M/V Columbia...
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    Oregon, United States and British Columbia, Canada. He piloted dozens of sternwheelers over his 40-year-long career and pioneered many rivers in the Pacific...
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    problem, and therefore she had a rounder and deeper bottom than the normal sternwheeler design. Her lake boat design would make Rossland faster and more efficient...
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    at 45 and 121-122. Timmen, Blow for the Landing, at 228-229. Mills, Sternwheelers up Columbia, at 56 and 200. Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers...
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    Sound, (2008) Arcadia Publishing ISBN 0-7385-5607-6 Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs – An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's...
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    south-central British Columbia, which separates the Thompson and Shuswap regions and the Thompson–Nicola and Columbia–Shuswap regional districts. The...
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