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was unable to earn money under any name, and so in 1858 sold her to B. N. Du Rell, by whom she was taken to Salem and fitted up as a floating sawmill. The machinery was subsequently removed and permanently located on the bank of the river, where it was used in the manufacture of lumber until 1860, at
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Canemah, the steam ran up too fast, causing a flue to collapse. Several persons received injuries, none of which, however, resulted seriously. The accident proved so expensive that the vessel changed ownership and name, this time to
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is also recorded as having taken
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Steamer's Wake -- Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British
Columbia, and the Columbia River
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was fitted with two geared engines, of which historian
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was the first steamboat in Oregon to suffer a boiler explosion, although no fatalities resulted.
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Defiance Line, which made daily runs south from
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Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska
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on a narrow stretch of the river. The vessels collided, and
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and replace her with a steamer then under construction at
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and intermediate points, and would make through trips to
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on the run from Canemah up the Willamette and then the
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627:Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns of the River
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615:, Alexander Nicolls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000
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705:, Bonanza Books, New York, NY (1963)
382:Sale to Citizens' Accommodation Line
81:inland steamship (passenger/freight)
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257:Mechanical failure and renaming as
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588:"Captain Len White has charge ..."
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597:. May 2, 1857. p.2, col.2.
25:Advertisement for steamer
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474:Century of Paddlewheelers
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268:Leonard White (d.1870).
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1765:Steamboats of Oregon
1541:Owners and personnel
658:Blow for the Landing
611:Affleck, Edward L.,
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472:Affleck, Edward L.,
1505:Geographic features
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336:Captain White sold
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