Leona (sternwheeler)

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Career
Name: Leona (ex McMinnville)
Owner: Oregon City Transportation Company
Route: Willamette River
Launched: 1899, at Portland, Oregon[1]
Fate: Burned 1912, Willamette River[1]
Notes: Launched under McMinnville, rebuilt 1901 and renamed Leona[1]
General characteristics
Class and type: riverine steamboat, passenger/freighter
Tonnage: 137[1]
Length: 90 ft (27 m)as reconstructed.[1]
Installed power: Twin single-cylinder horizontally mounted steam engines
Propulsion: sternwheeler

The steamship Leona operated from 1899 to 1912 on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon.[2]

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[edit] Construction

Leona was built in 1899, at Portland, Oregon, and launched under the name McMinnville. Soon afterwards she was acquired by the Graham family, rebuilt and renamed Leona.[1] She was a sternwheeler driven by twin-single cylinder horizontally-mounted steam engines. She was built for the Graham steamboat line, formally called the Oregon City Transportation Company, but also known as the “Yellow Stack Line”. All the steamers of the line had names that ended in -ona: Latona, Ramona, Altona, Leona, Pomona, Oregona, and Grahamona.[2]

[edit] Operations on Willamette River

Leona ran on the upper Willamette River, that is, above Willamette Falls.[1]

[edit] Loss by fire

In 1912, Leona burned on the Willamette River and was destroyed. fortunately without injuries or loss of anyone’s life.[1]

[edit] See also

Steamboats of the Columbia River

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Newell, Gordon R., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 48 and 210, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
  2. ^ a b Mills, Randall V., Sternwheelers Up Columbia, at 89, University of Nebraska Press (1977 reprint of 1947 edition) ISBN 0-8032-5874-7
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