Beaver (sternwheeler 1873)

Beaver (sternwheel steamboat)
Owner:	Willamette Transportation Co.,Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Co.
Route:	Willamette, lower Columbia, and Stikine rivers
Launched:	August 21, 1873, at Portland
In service:	1873
Identification:	US registry # 2889
Fate:	May 17, 1878, hit rock and sank on Stikine R.
Type:	shallow draft inland passenger/freighter
Tonnage:	292 gross tons
Length:	125 ft (38.1 m)
Beam:	25 ft (7.6 m)
Depth:	5.0 ft (1.5 m) depth of hold
Installed power:	steam, twin high pressure horizontally mounted, single-cylinder engines, 14" bore by 48" stroke, 13 hp (9.7 kW) nominal
Propulsion:	sternwheel

The Beaver was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1873 for the Willamette Transportation Company.

In 1875 Beaver passed into the ownership of the Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Company. Beaver worked on the Willamette River and then on the Columbia River on the run from Portland to Astoria.

In June 1876 Beaver was sold to Uriah Nelson and taken north to the Stikine River to serve traffic generated by the Cassiar Gold Rush.

On May 17, 1878 Beaver struck a rock 60 miles (97 km) below Glenora, British Columbia. The boat was wrecked but her machinery was salvaged.