Ships built in Oregon

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Chapters: PS Eliza Anderson, SS West Nohno, SS West Cheswald, SS Empire Miniver, USS West Corum, USS West Gate, USS Yuma, T. J. Potter, USS PC-815, Multnomah, USS Tekesta, Hassalo, Star of Oregon, USS Belmont, Columbia, USS Tawasa, Lot Whitcomb, Ramona, Greyhound, USNS Sgt. Jack J. Pendleton, USS Ozark, USS Catskill, USS West Coast, Kootenai, USS Latimer, SS Quinault Victory, USS Gage, Shoalwater, USS West Compo, USNS Lt. James E. Robinson, USNS Twin Falls, Ruth, Leona, BRP Pangasinan, USS Majaba, USS Granville, BRP Sultan Kudarat, BRP Cebu, USS Mellette, USS Napa, USS Catalpa, USNS Watertown, USS Buckeye, USS Minah, USS Gosper, USNS Huntsville, USS Lander, USS Cinchona, USS Suncook, USS Liberty, USS Bexar, USS Lapwing, USNS Private John R. Towle, USS Grimes, USS Deuel, USS Marietta, USS Camanga, BRP Iloilo, USNS Wheeling, USS Hyde, USS Dickens, Altona, BRP Negros Occidental, USS Lauderdale, USS Darke, SS Schenectady, USS Bronx, USS Regulus, USS Adroit, USNS Range Tracker, USS Lavaca, USS PC-817, USS Lycoming, USS Jerauld, USS Harlequin, USS Cohoes, USS Laurens, USS La Porte, USS Annoy, USS Besboro, USS Alcor, USS Osprey, USS Etlah, USS Karnes, USS Kershaw, SS James B. Stephens, USS Siskin, USS Eastland, USS Gavia, TCG Sultanhisar, USNS Phoenix, USNS Bowditch, USS Rail, USS Kingsbury, USNS Provo, USS Chestnut, USNS Dutton, USS Gallatin, USS Situla, USS Lowndes, RPS Leyte, USS Manayunk, USS Newberry, USS Bond, USS Glynn, USS Ampere, USNS Cheyenne, SS Charles L. Wheeler Jr., USS Edgecombe, USS Freestone, USS Western Comet, USS Captivate, USS Buoyant, USS Sterope, USS Capable, USNS Perseus, USS Giansar, USS Compel, USS Dunlin, USNS Bartlett, USS Fond du Lac, USS Nahant, USS Counsel, USS Drew, USS Candid, USS Denebola, Oregon Pine, USS Effingham, USS Western Belle, USS Tuscumbia, USS Advent, USS Caravan, SS Davidson Victory, USNS De Steiguer, USS Climax, USS Caution, USS De Grasse, USS Dash, USS Talita, USS Gadwall, USS Magnet, USS Change, USS Rainier, USS Control, USS Graylag, USS Creddock, Wide West, USS Concise, USS Clamour, USS Daring, USS Constant, USS Dane, Johanna Smith, USS Egret, USS West View, USS Detector, USS Goldsborough, USS Conflict, USS Mahanna, USS Harrier, USS Pintail, USS Buttress, USS Fox, USC&GS Westdahl, USS Parris Island, USNS Michelson, USS Dipper, USS Davis, SS Gouverneur Morris, USC&GS Lester Jones, USC&GS Patton, SS Dumaru, FV Maverick, SS Star of Oregon. Excerpt: The PS Eliza Anderson operated from 1858 to 1898 mainly on Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia, and the Fraser River but also for short periods in Alaska. She was generally known as the Old Anderson and was considered slow and underpowered even for the time. Even so, it was said of her that "no steamboat ever went slower and made money faster." She played a role in the Underground Railroad and had a desperate last voyage to Alaska as part of the Klondike Gold Rush. Eliza Anderson was launched on November 27, 1858, at Portland, Oregon for the Columbia River Steam Navigation Company. She was a sidewheeler driven by a low pressure boiler generating steam for a single cylinder walking-beam steam engine She was built entirely of wood, measuring 197' long, 25.5 feet on the beam, and rated at 276 tons capacity. After her trial run on the lower Willamette and Columbia rivers, she was sold to a consortium of John T. Bradford, some Canadian stockholders and three brothers, Tom, John T. and George S. Wright, who were early steamboat op...