Cascades (towboat)

The stern-wheel towboat Cascades of 1912, Capt. H. B. Davis, operated by the Shaver Transportation Co., was also the victim of a fire, which resulted from an oil fire explosion in her ash box while she was assisting a vessel into the deperming station at Swan Island. The steamer was damaged beyond repair. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1943-1944, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest.Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1966 p. 520.

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Cascades (towboat)

The big stern -wheel towboat Cascades, built in 1882 by the U. S. Engineers to tow rock barges for the Columbia River jetty construction work, was rebuilt at Portland in 1912, the second Cascades also serving the Shaver company for many years until her destruction by fire in 1943. The Cascades was a 407-ton steamer with dimensions of 160 x 30.8 x 6.5. Her 20 x 72 engines, developing 500 horsepower, were provided with steam at 150 pounds pressure from a single locomotive boiler. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 204.

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