| Idaho | The "Idaho" was a 3,132 gross ton ship, built in 1869 by Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow-on-Tyne for the Guion Line of Liverpool. Her details were - length 354.3ft x beam 43.4ft, straight stem, one funnel, two masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. Launched on 13th February 1869, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Queenstown (Cobh) and New York on 13th April 1869. She remained on this service until 1st June 1878 when she was wrecked on the coast of Wexford, Ireland with no loss of life. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.2, p.709] - |
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| Idaho (barneby, P. 146, 150) | August Kautz. Northwest Journals of August V. Kautz, 1857-61, p. 346. Runs Cascades, North Pacific History Company. History of the Pacific Northwest, II, p. 102. The Sea Chest. (June, 1977), p. 151. Steamer Idaho, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 93. Wreck of the Idaho, Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 302. Ruby El Hult, Steamboats in the timber., p. 144-47, 151-53, 162-65. Built at Cascades, Oregon, in 1860. Gordon Newell, Ships of the Inland Sea, p. 209. Arthur Throckmorton, Oregon Argonauts, merchant adventurers on the western front, p. 303-04. Aurora Hunt, The Army of the Pacific., p. 222. Lucile McDonald. Swan among the Indians., p. 143. |
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| Idaho (sidwheeler) | 1915 Sidewheel, 800 hp, 147'x 231 with 221 wheels, a dynamo capable of powering 125 lights and a capacity for 1,000 passengers. Launched 2/20/1903 with a price-tag cost of $45,000. The Joe Transportation Co. ship rammed and sank the Boneta in 1903. The Idaho burned and sank in Blackrock Bay in 1915 in Lake Coeur d'Alene. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Columbia River, tributaries Idaho, Montana, Oregon Shipwrecks.1984, p.203-208 |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The Idaho was built at the Upper Cascades, Oregon, in 1860, ran the middle Columbia until 1881 and then to Puget Sound. It made a Seattle-Port Townsend-Hood Canal run until it was sold to Dr. DeSoto who removed the engines, placed the ship on a grid iron at the foot of Marion Street where it served as the first mission hospital in Seattle. The remains are buried in a fill beneath Railroad Avenue. Leslie Stevens, Boats on Hood Canal, memories of Leslie Stevens, Kitsap County History. Silverdale: Kitsap County Historical Society, 1977, Book One p. 30-31. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The 1,047-ton Idaho, with 600-horsepower (Main Street Iron Works) engine, was built by Andrew Peterson at Aberdeen@ for Wilson Bros. of San Francisco, and the Phyllis, 1,266 tons with 800-horsepower Main Street Iron Works engine, by the Aberdeen Shipbuilding Co. (the former Andrew Peterson yard), for W. R. Chamberlin & Co. of San Francisco. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1917, H.W.McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 290. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The well known side -wheel steamer Idaho was acquired in 1899 by Dr. Alexander De Soto, a Seattle physician, who had the old vessel, minus her machinery, permanently set on piling at the foot of Jackson Street on Railroad Avenue. Aboard her he established a wayside mission and hospital for the indigent, which became Seattle's first emergency hospital. In later years it received some support from the city government and was not supplanted in this humantarian work until 1910 when the waterfront in that area was filled in, the bones of the old Idaho still reposing under the fill. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 50. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | This vessel was built at the upper Cascades for John R. Ruckle, but was soon taken over by the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. for middle river service out of The Dalles. In 1881 she was one of the boats taken over the Cascades by Capt James Troup and she appeared on Puget Sound the following year, in the service of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., which had succeeded the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. In 1890 she was sold to Capt. James Tiastings, who placed her on the Seattle-Evereft-Snohomish route, butshe was not successful in this trade and soon passed to Capt. Jackson's enterprises, ending her active career on the Seattle-Port Townsend-Mill Ports run under Capt Ever@tt B. Coffin, she being his first command. She was a craft of 278 tons, with dimensions of 147 x 25 x 6.6, powered by two 16 x 60-inch horizontal engines. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1899, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 50. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | On Lake Coeur d' Alene, Idaho the palatial 147-foot side -wheel steamer Idaho was built by J. C. White and J. H. and Harry Spaulding to compete with the little propellers Spokane and Colfax of Reynolds & McDonald. The Idaho was successful and the two smaller steamers were soon taken over by her owners, who formed the Coeur d' Alene & St. Joe Transportation Co., later the Red Collar Line. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1903, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 92. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | Another pioneer steamship, the Idaho, was wrecked on Rosedale Reef near Race Rocks lighthouse in the Straits of Fuca, November 29th. The Idaho left Port Townsend early in the morning during a dense fog. Before reaching Race Rocks lighthouse, the foghorn was heard at regular intervals, but after that was silent for a long time. When it was again heard Captain Angerstein ordered a full stop, but the command came too late, and in another instant the steamer struck the rocks amidship. She carried as cargo 800 barrels of lime, 150 of fish oil, 370 of salmon, 65 bales of hops and 200 tons of coal. She commenced leaking as soon as she struck, and the water, coming in contact with the lime, caused a fire, which drove the crew from their quarters between decks. Holes were bored, and a sufficient quantity of water was let in to drown the flames. The weather was calm, and there was but little swell, but the Idaho had begun to feel her age and could not be released from the rocks. She remained there until December 20th, |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The completion of the railroad by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company naturally left several surplus steamboats on the Columbia and Willamette rivers without employment. The development of the Puget Sound country was proceeding with giant strides and offered a fine field for several of the idle steamers. The first of the fleet to ake the salt-water trip was the Idaho, which went around in February. She was followed in June by the steamer City of Quincy. The Washington, intended for the Vancouver route, made the run in September, and the Emma Hayward, J. E. Denny, captain, D. Pardun, engineer, arrived at Seattle, October 24th. The Gazelle, Captain Erwin Farrer, Engineer John Farrell, reached the same port November 13, 1882. E. W. Wright, Marine Business of 1882. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 295. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The steamer Idaho, or, as she was afterward called, the Fort Yale, was set afloat at Victoria, October 15th. She was built by Capt. Smith Jamieson, a brother of the Jamiesons of Willamette River fame, and began running in November on the Fraser, continuing there until April, 1861, when she came to a sudden end by the first serious boiler explosion which bad occurred in the province (see explosion of Fort Yale, 1861). The steamer was 110 feet long, 22 feet beam, 4 feet hold, with 14 x 54 inch engines, and a sternwheel 16 feet in diameter. E. W. Wright, The Oregon Steam Navigation Company, Growth of British Columbia Marine Industries, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961, p.94. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The steamer Idaho was piloted over the Cascades, July 11, 1881 by Capt. J. W. Troup. E. W. Wright, Marine Business of 1881, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest [Written in 1895], p. 287. |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The steamer Idaho, still running on Puget Sound, has probably retained her original shape longer and seen more years of actual service than any inland steamer that ever ran in the Northwest. She was constructed at the Cascades in 1860 for Col. John S. Ruckel, and naturally fell into the hands of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, for whom she proved very profitable. She continued on the middle river long enough to wear out some of the handsomer steamers like the Daisy Ainsworth and Oneonta, which were built with money earned by the Idaho, and in 1881 she was piloted over the Cascades by Capt. James Troup, and, after being repaired and strengthened throughout, was sent around to Puget Sound the following year, where Capt. George D. Messegee was her first master. She was one of the pioneer Oregon Railway & Navigation Company's steamers on Puget Sound, and served on the various routes from Olympia to Victoria in a manner fully as acceptable as that in which she had performed her duties on the placid waters of |
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| Idaho (steamer) | The steamship Idaho was built at Bath, Maine., in 1866, by Jarvis Patton, who sent the steamer Montana to the Coast the preceding year. She was an exceedingly well built vessel, oak, yellow pine and hackmatack entering into her construction, and is said to have cost $250,000. She went directly to the Pacific Coast, and commenced running north in March, 1867, continuing in the trade between San Francisco and all ports of importance as far as Alaska for over twenty years, with the exception of a short period in the Honolulu trade, where she was handled by Captain Floyd and Engineer Hawley. In 1875 she was transferred, with the rest of the Holladay fleet, to Goodall, Nelson & Co., and remained in their service and that of their successors until 1888, when she was chartered by the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, who lost her the following year on Race Rocks, near Victoria. When Cornwall put the Great Republic on the northern route as an opposition steamer, the Idaho was started out as a chaser, sailing a f |
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| State Of Idaho (steamer) | The sternwheeler State of Idaho, the best steamer yet constructed on the Kootenai, was also built for that trade in 1892, at Bonner's Ferry, by Depuy, Lannen & Rutter. On her first trip she ran ashore near Ainsworth, B. C., receiving slight damages to her bow, which caused her to sink. The captain called a survey, and, deeming her a hopeless wreck, sold her at auction. She was bid in by a passenger for $350, although she had cost over $20,000. The fortunate purchaser was offered several thousand dollars for his bargain by the Columbia & Kootenai Steam Navigation Company, but became excited over his good luck and determined to raise her himself. Knowing nothing about the business, he spent a small fortune before she was again afloat. Legal complications then arose, and as late as December, 1894, the steamer was still tied up at Nelson. E. W. Wright, Retirement of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company from Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Puget Sound. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 19 |
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