Early Boats
| Name | Type | Year Built | Where Built | Builders | Owners | Tons | Length | Beam | Draft | Engines | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| side | 1834 | London | Hudson's Bay Company | 187 | 101' | Wrecked 1888 in B.C. | |||||
| Columbia | side | 1850 | Astoria | Goodwin & Hewitt | Frost, Adair, Leonards & Green | 75 | 90' | 16' | 4' | 8"x24" | Dismantled 1862, engines to Fashion |
| side | 1850 | Milwaukie, Oregon | White, Jennings & Whitcomb | 600 | 160' | 24' | 5.8' | single 17"x84" | Sold to California Steam Navigation Co. 1854, renamed Annie Abernathy | ||
| side | 1851 | Canemah, Oregon | Bissell, Maxwell & Gray | 108' | 18' | 6' | 10"x48" | Dismantled 1864 | |||
| Eagle | propeller launch (iron hull) | 1851 | Philadelphia | 20 | Dismantled 1871 | ||||||
| Blackhawk | propeller launch (iron hull) | 1851 | 40' | Dismantled 1852 | |||||||
| Hoosier | side | 1851 | Portland | John T. Thomas | A.S. Murray and others | 5 | 60' | Wrecked 1853 or dismantled 1860 at Linn City | |||
| Major Redding | 1851 | Dismantled 1852 | |||||||||
| Wallamet | side | 1853 | Canemah, Oregon | John T. Thomas | J. McCrosky and others | 272 | 150' | 23' | 5' | 14"x60" | Transferred to California, 1854. |
| Belle (of Oregon City) | side (iron hull) | 1853 | Oregon City | 54 | 96' | 16' | 4' | Dismantled at Portland, 1869 | |||
| Senorita | side | 1855 | Oregon City | 132' | 23' | 5' | 14"x72" | Dismantled 1859. Engines to Hassaloe | |||
| Jennie Clark | stern | 1855 | Milwaukie | John C. Ainsworth and Jacob Kamm | 50 | 115' | 18.5' | 4' | 12"x48" | Dismantled 1863, engines to Forty-Nine. |
| Name | Type | Year Built | Where Built | Builders/Owners | Hull | Tons | Length | Beam | Draft | Engines | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James P. Flint | side | 1851 | Cascades, Washington | Bradford & Van Bergen | wood | 80' | To lower Columbia 1852, hit rock and sank 1853, raised, rebuilt and renamed Fashion | ||||
| Allan | propeller | 1852 | iron | 10 | unknown | ||||||
| Mary | side | 1854 | Cascades, Washington | Bradford & Co. | wood | 80' | 16' | 5' | 14"x30" | Dismantled 1862 at The Dalles |
| Name | Type | Year Built | Where Built | Builders/Owners | Hull | Tons | Length | Beam | Draft | Engines | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture | stern | 1851 | Cascades, Washington | R.R. Thompson & E.F. Coe | wood | 91 | 110' | 22' | 4.6" | 14"x48" | Swept over Cascades upon launch and sank, raised, renamed Umatilla, and served on lower Columbia until 1858, then transferred to Fraser River under command of John C. Ainsworth, then to Sacramento River. |
| Colonel Wright | stern | 1858 | Deschutes, Oregon | R.R. Thompson & E.F. Coe | wood | 110' | 21' | 5' | 12.5"x50" | dismantled 1865 at Celilo | |
| Tenino | stern | 1861 | Deschutes, Oregon | R.R. Thompson for O.S.N. | wood | 329 | 135' | 25' | 5.5' | 17"x52" | Rebuilt 1869 and rebuilt again 1876 and renamed New Tenino, U.S. registry #130067. |
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