Governor Grover (sternwheeler)
.jpeg) Governor Grover in Willamette Locks, March 1873, shortly after completion of locks
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| Name | Governor Grover |
| Owner | Willamette River Navigation Co., Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Co.[2] |
| Route | Willamette River[2] |
| Launched | 1873, at Portland, Oregon[1] |
| Identification | US registry # 85249 |
| Fate | 1880 Dismantled |
| Type | Shallow draft inland passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 404 gross[4] |
| Length | 140 ft (42.7 m)[2][3] |
| Beam | 28.6 ft (8.7 m)[2] |
| Depth | 5.5 ft (1.7 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, 19 in (48 cm) bore x 60 in (150 cm) stroke 17 net horsepower. nominal[2] |
| Propulsion | sternwheel[1] |
Governor Grover was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the
Construction
Governor Grover was built in 1873 for the Willamette River Navigation Company
Operation
Grover was launched on January 28, 1873, and made her first trip on March 16, 1873. Officers at first were Charles Holman, Captain, George Marshall, chief engineer, and A. Vickers and Charles Kellogg, pilots.[6] Shortly after construction Governor Grover passed into the ownership of the Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Company. Governor Grover worked on the Willamette River and, on March 18, 1873, was the first large vessel to go as far upriver as Harrisburg.[1][6] Grover achieved some success in driving down rates, and became popular among the farmers of the Willamette Valley.[7]
In 1874 Capt. Holman was succeeded in command by Capt. James Wilson, who remained with the vessel for several years.[6] The Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Company sold Grover to the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, which worked the vessel on all routes running out of Portland, Oregon.[6]
Disposition
In 1880, Governor Grover was dismantled at Portland, Oregon.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Mills, Sternwheelers up Columbia, at 103, 143, 194.
- ^ a b c d e f Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 14.
- ^ Mills at 194 gives length as 120 ft (37 m)
- ^ A measure of volume, not of weight, theoretically equal to 100 cubic feet. Affleck, Century of Paddlewheelers, at 1.
- ^ Sometimes this company is seen referred to as the "Willamette River Transportation Company", for example, in Wright, ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History, at 206.
- ^ a b c d e Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden Marine History, at 23, 205.
- ^ Corning, Willamette Landings, at 126 and 184.
References
- Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, Alexander Nicolls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- Corning, Howard McKinley, Willamette Landings—Ghost Towns of the River, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon (2nd Ed. 1973) ISBN 0-87595-042-6
- ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
- Wright, E.W., ed., Lewis & Dryden 's Marine History of the Northwest, Lewis & Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR 1895, available on-line at the Washington Secretary of State Historical Section
Further reading
- Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake—Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 ISBN 0-9615811-0-7
- Newell, Gordon R., and Williamson, Joe, Pacific Steamboats Bonanza Press, New York, NY 1958
- Timmen, Fritz, Blow for the Landing—A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West, Caxton Press, Caldwell, ID 1973 ISBN 0-87004-221-1
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