| Amazon | AMAZON: side-wheel packet, wood hull, built Jeffersonville, Indiana, 1847, and possibly rebuilt at Pittsburgh 1849. 250 feet long x 32 feet broad. Engine cylinders 20 inches inside, length of piston stroke 6 feet. Three boilers allowed 115 psi. She had St. Louis owners. Snagged at Rattlesnake Springs, three miles above the mouth of the Missouri River, February 15, 1856, having shortly before been sold to Menard Chouteau. Frederick Way, comp., Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1994; Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi River System Since the Advent of Photography in Mid-continent America (revised paperback edition; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, 1994), p. 18, no. 0222 |
| Citation: [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 16 July 1997] |
| Amazon | (Barkentine) - Amazon, a four-masted barkentine of 1167 tons, sister to the Amaranth, built in 1902, also passed to Bowes & Andrews in 1909. She was sold by them to A. F. Thane in 1916 for $55,000, and resold by him a little over a Year later for $160,000 to J. M. Scott, Mobile. She was burned at sea on the Fourth of July, 1925, in 27'25' N, 79'30' W, the crew getting away safely. John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. February 15, 1941. p. 2. |
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| Amazon | (Brig) - Regarding her voyage of 1851. Bancroft, H.H. History of Oregon., II, p. 258. |
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| Amazon | (Freighter) - A 65 x 20-foot freighter for Seattle Tacoma service, Amazon was built by John Wilson at Seattle for the Lillico Launch & Tug Co., fitted with a 75-horse power semi-diesel engine. The boat capsized at Tacoma soon after going into service and was sold to the Merchants' Transportation Co. of Tacoma, becoming the V P. Handy. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1915, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 254. |
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| Amazon | (Gas scow) - Built in 1915 the 40 ton gas scow Amazon sank the same year and then was raised and rebuilt (Firemen's Insurance Company 1917, Gibbs 1955:426). |
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