Colorado I (sternwheeler)
Colorado, was a
paddle-steamer, the third steamboat on the Colorado River
, and first stern-wheel steamboat put on that river, in December 1855.
The Colorado was a 120 foot long, stern-wheel steamboat, built for the
sandbars and through the narrower sloughs that sometimes occurred on the ever-changing course of the old Colorado River Delta. Besides running cargoes between Fort Yuma from the estuary, it was used with the General Jesup to carry supplies and soldiers up river during the 1858-59 Mohave War and for the establishment of Fort Mohave. The steamboats were engaged to carry the troops and supplies up river for at $500 per day.[2]
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At the end of its service life the first Colorado's hull was dismantled in April, 1862. Its engine and boiler was removed and used to equip the new, larger stern-wheeler Colorado that was built and launched under the guns of Fort Yuma, in Arizona City, for fear of an attack by Confederate raiders.[2]: 41
References
- ^ Scott, Erving M. and Others, Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II, Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, p. 123
- ^ a b Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 Archived January 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
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