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Echo (sternwheeler 1865)
''Echo'' was a sternwheel steamboat that operated on the Willamette River from about 1865 to 1873 and was one of the first steamboats to carry what was then considered a large cargo out of Eugene, Oregon. Construction ''Echo'' was built for the Willamette River Steam Navigation Company (WRSN) at Canemah, Oregon, a small town just above Willamette Falls which is now part of Oregon City. ''Echo''s owners as shown on her licensing papers were A. P. Ankeny and John Gates.Wright, E.W., ed., ''Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Lewis and Dryden Printers, Portland, OR 1895, at 135. was launched May 22, 1865 and made her trial trip July 27 in command of Capt. Miles Bell, who was then in the service of the Willamette Steam Navigation Company. Captain Cochran succeeded Bell as master, and captains Pease and Sebastian Miller also handled the vessel for a while. Other sternwheelers built and run by WRSN included ''Alert'' and ''Active''. Operations ''Echo'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willamette Steam Navigation Company
The Willamette Steam Navigation Company (W.S.N.) was an American company incorporated in October 1865 to challenge the monopoly on Willamette River inland steam navigation that the People's Transportation Company was attempting to establish. Officers of W.S.N. were D. W. Burnside, president, Portland co-founder Asa L. Lovejoy (1808-1882), vice-president, and John T. Apperson, secretary. Apperson also served as captain on one of their boats. The steamers ''Active'' and ''Alert'' were constructed, and they controlled the ''Echo'' and one or two others. ''Alert'' was put on the Portland to Oregon City run, and ''Active'' and ''Echo'' worked above Willamette Falls The Willamette Falls is a natural waterfall on the Willamette River between Oregon City and West Linn, Oregon, in the United States. It is the largest waterfall in the Northwestern United States by volume, and the seventeenth widest in the wor ... from Canemah (now Oregon City) to Corvallis. Nicholas Haun (al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboats Of Oregon
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw Steamer') or PS (for 'Paddle Steamer'); however, these designations are most often used for steamships. The term ''steamboat'' is used to refer to smaller, insular, steam-powered boats working on lakes and rivers, particularly riverboats. As using steam became more reliable, steam power became applied to larger, ocean-going vessels. Background Limitations of the Newcomen steam engine Early steamboat designs used Newcomen steam engines. These engines were large, heavy, and produced little power, which resulted in an unfavorable power-to-weight ratio. The Newcomen engine also produced a reciprocating or rocking motion because it was designed for pumping. The piston stroke was caused by a water jet in the steam-filled cylinder, which condensed the steam, creating a vacuum, which in turn caus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo (steam Tug)
The steam tug ''Echo'' operated in the early 1900s on Puget Sound. Construction ''Echo'' was built at Tacoma, WA, Tacoma in 1900 by Crawford and Reid (shipbuilders), Crawford and Reid for Captain O. G. Olson. ''Echo'' was propeller-driven and 66.5' long. Operation On August 16, 1906, the Foss gasoline-powered launch ''Lion'' caught fire in Commencement Bay, when a fuel valve mistakenly left open had spilled 30 gallons of gasoline into her bilges, which was ignited by the engine backfiring. ''Echo'' pumped water on board ''Lion'' until the fire was out, while a boat from the cutter ''Grant'' took off her crew and passengers. Purchase by Foss Launch & Tug Co. In 1916, Foss Launch and Tug Company bought Captain O.G. Olson's Tacoma towing business, including the steam tugs ''Echo'', ''Elf'', and ''Olympian''. In 1921, Perry Moore became ''Echo'' ‘s chief engineer. Foss continued to operate ''Echo'' until 1930, when she was laid-up at the company's yard in Seattle. In 1938, ''Ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echo (sternwheeler 1901)
''Echo'' was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River on the Southern Oregon Coast from 1901 to 1910. Construction ''Echo'' was built in 1901 at Coquille at the Ellingson yard.Newell, Gordon R., ed. ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior (1966), at page 71. ''Echo'' was long, with a beam of and depth of hold of , The overall size of the vessel was 76 gross and 49 net tons.1901 Annual Merchant Vessels List, page 232 Operations In 1901 only three steamers served on the river between Coquille and Myrtle Point, these were the propeller ''Reta'' (18 registered tons) the sternwheeler ''Echo'' (53 registered tons) and ''Welcome'' (21 registered tons). Between these three vessels they hauled 1,554 tons of freight upriver and 2,834 tons downriver. Upriver, the biggest single item was general merchandise, 800 tons. Downriver was almost entirely agricultural products, with the biggest single item being 1,035 tons of milk. 10,1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Steamship Company
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) was a railroad that operated a rail network of running east from Portland, Oregon, United States, to northeastern Oregon, northeastern Washington, and northern Idaho. It operated from 1896 as a consolidation of several smaller railroads. OR&N was initially operated as an independent carrier, but Union Pacific (UP) purchased a majority stake in the line in 1898. It became a subsidiary of UP titled the Oregon–Washington Railroad and Navigation Company in 1910. In 1936, Union Pacific formally absorbed the system, which became UP's gateway to the Pacific Northwest. Predecessors The OR&N was made up of several railroads: *Columbia Southern Railway from Biggs to Shaniko, Oregon. *Oregon ''Railway'' and Navigation Company traces its roots back as far as 1860. It was incorporated in 1879 in Portland, Oregon and operated between Portland and eastern Washington and Oregon until 1896, when it was reorganized into the Oregon ''Railroad' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Holladay
Benjamin Holladay (October 14, 1819 – July 8, 1887) was an American transportation businessman responsible for creating the Overland Stage to California during the height of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Ben Holladay created a stagecoach empire and he is known in history as the "Stagecoach King". A native of Kentucky, he also was hired as a private courier to General Alexander William Doniphan, Alexander Doniphan of Missouri. Doniphan refused point-blank to carry out orders to kill the Mormons during the Mormon War (1838), 1838 Mormon War in Missouri. His transportation empire later included steamships and railroads in Oregon. Early life Holladay was born October 14, 1819, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. His father, William Holladay (born in what is now Spotsylvania County, Virginia) was a third-generation American, descended from John "The Ranger" Holladay. William migrated to Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he was a guide for wagon trains through the Cumberland Gap. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Navigation Company
People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly from its base at St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport in Switzerland. History Founded as People's Viennaline in 2010, the first revenue flight of the company took place on 27 March 2011. For several years, People's only operated a single scheduled route between its homebase and Vienna. However, the route network has since been expanded with some seasonal and charter services. In November 2016, People's inaugurated the world's shortest international jet route (and, after St. Maarten-Anguilla, second shortest international route overall). The flight from St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, Switzerland, to Friedrichshafen Airport, Germany, took only eight minutes of flight over Lake Constance and could have been booked individually. The airline faced severe criticism for this service fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield, Oregon
Springfield is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Southern Willamette Valley, it is within the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. Separated from Eugene to the west, mainly by Interstate 5, Springfield is the second-most populous city in the metropolitan area after Eugene. As of the 2010 census, the city has a total population of 59,403. The Briggs family first settled the Springfield area, arriving in 1848. The community was incorporated as a city in 1885. The city was named after a natural spring located in a field or prairie within the current city boundaries. For the majority of the 20th century the economy of Springfield was largely dependent on the Oregon timber industry, but since the 1990s the economy has diversified with PeaceHealth now the largest employer in the city. Public education in the city is provided by the Springfield School District. History The first inhabitants to the area were the Kalapuya people. Also someti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Active (sternwheeler)
''Active'' was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on the upper Willamette River from 1865 to 1872. During its short operational life, ''Active'' was owned by several different steamboat companies. It was dismantled in 1872 at Canemah, Oregon. Construction ''Active'' was built at Canemah, Oregon for the Willamette Steam Navigation Company. Dimensions ''Active'' was long, measured over the hull, and exclusive of the extension of the main deck over the stern, called the "fantail", on which the stern-wheel was mounted. ''Active'' had a beam of exclusive of the protective timbers along the upper sides of the hull called the guards. The depth of hold was . The overall size of the steamer was 269.74 gross tons, which was a measure of volume, not weight. The official merchant vessel registry number was 1232. Engineering ''Active'' was driven by a stern-wheel, turned by twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, each with bore of and stroke of , generating 13 nominal h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willamette River
The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward between the Oregon Coast Range and the Cascade Range, the river and its tributaries form the Willamette Valley, a basin that contains two-thirds of Oregon's population, including the state capital, Salem, and the state's largest city, Portland, which surrounds the Willamette's mouth at the Columbia. Originally created by plate tectonics about 35 million years ago and subsequently altered by volcanism and erosion, the river's drainage basin was significantly modified by the Missoula Floods at the end of the most recent ice age. Humans began living in the watershed over 10,000 years ago. There were once many tribal villages along the lower river and in the area around its mouth on the Columbia. Indigenous peoples lived throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alert (sternwheeler)
Alert or ALERT may refer to: * Alertness, the state of active attention by high sensory awareness. Places * Alert, Iran * Alert, Indiana, U.S. * Alert, North Carolina, U.S. * Alert, Ohio, U.S. * Alert, Nunavut, Canada ** Alert Airport * Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada * Alert Channel, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia * Alert Cove, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia Ships * CS ''Alert'', the name of several cable-laying ships * HMS ''Alert'', the name of several ships of the British Royal Navy **Alert-class sloop * SS ''Alert'', a steamship that sank off Victoria, Australia in 1893 * USS ''Alert'' or USCGC ''Alert'', the name of several ships of the US Navy or US Coast Guard * ''Alert'' (sternwheeler 1865), a steamboat in Oregon, U.S. Other uses * Alert (bridge), in the card game of bridge * Alert (gum), a caffeinated gum product * Alert (interbank network), now STAR * Alert (motorcycle), an English motorcycle 1903–1906 * "Alert" (song), by K. Michelle, 2017 * Alert d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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