CDV Puget Sound Sidewheel STEAMBOAT North Pacific Built Columbia River OREGON

Description

1870s CDV showing the side wheel steamboat known as the "North Pacific".
The North Pacific operated in the Puget Sound, Alaska, Columbia River and Britis Columbia..
CDV approx. 4 x 2.5 inches. Good condition. see images.
Tons of information can be found about the North Pacific on wikipedia including:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_(sidewheeler)
North Pacific
was an early steamboat operating in Puget Sound, on the Columbia River, and in
British Columbia
and Alaska. The vessel's nickname was "the White Schooner" which was not based on the vessel's rig, but rather on speed, as "to schoon" in nautical parlance originally meant to go fast.
North Pacific
was built in
San Francisco, California
for E.A. and L.M. Starr. The Starrs were pioneer businessmen in
Portland, Oregon
. The Starrs had been unsuccessfully trying to compete with Finch and Wright, first with the sidewheeler
Alida
and then with the small steamer
Isabel
. The Starrs brought
North Pacific
to
Puget Sound
in 1871 to compete with the firm of D.B. Finch and Capt. Tom Wright (1828–1906). Finch and Wright had run the pioneer sidewheeler
Eliza Anderson
on the Sound, and had recently replaced the
Anderson
with the faster sidewheeler
Olympia
(later known as the
Princess Louise
).
North Pacific was 166.8 ft (50.84 m) long, with a beam of 29 ft (8.84 m) and 10.3 ft (3.14 m) depth of hold. North Pacific was 488.73
gross tons
in size, with "tons" in this instance being a measure of volume and not weight. The official merchant vessel registry number was 18685.
North Pacific
was driven by a single-cylinder walking beam engine, 40-inch-diameter (1,000 mm) piston, 120-inch (3,000 mm) stroke
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