Annie Faxon (sternwheeler)
Annie Faxon was a steamboat that was built by the Oregon Steam Navigation Company. She is chiefly remembered now for the catastrophic boiler explosion in 1893 that destroyed her and killed eight people on board.
Read more about Annie Faxon (sternwheeler): Design and Construction, Navigation On The Columbia River, Operations of Annie Faxon, Destruction, Cause of The Explosion
Famous quotes containing the word annie:
“Annie Laurie
Gie’d me her promise true;
Gie’d me her promise true,
Which ne’er forgot will be;
And for bonnie Annie Laurie
I’d lay me doune and dee.”
—William Douglas (1672?–1748)