Telephone (sternwheeler)
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Telephone was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1884 by Captain Uriah Bonsor "U.B." Scott for service on the Columbia River. Reputedly the fastest steamboat in the world in its time, Telephone served on the Columbia River and San Francisco Bay. Telephone was rebuilt at least twice. The first time was after a fire in 1887 which nearly destroyed the vessel. The reconstructed and much larger second vessel was sometimes referred to as Telephone No. 2. The third vessel, Telephone No. 3, built in 1903 and using components from the second steamer was larger but little used during its time on the Columbia river.
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Telephone (sternwheeler)
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Telephone
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depth of hold
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1885-03-01
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Twin horizontally mounted high-pressure single-cylinder steam engines.
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The heyday of speed came with the building of the big boats in the 1880s—Telephone, T.J. Potter, Bailey Gatzert. When they swung out of the dock at Portland, threshed spray as their wheels reversed, and started down the river, they were worth watching; long, lean, clean-lined, tall stacks throwing a pennant of smoke, a banner with the boat’s name on the jackstaff, and the national ensign at the king-post or stern, they cut the water away on either side, leaving long arrowheads of waves making toward the shore and a straight wake of froth behind.
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By the time these hasty notes were penciled the familiar tones of the whistle had been twice heard, and three o'clock the Telephone cast off and started for Portland on her first up trip, her flags and streamers fluttering in the breeze, the blue water lapping her lines and gleaming in the brilliant sunlight, and her decks crowded with passengers, a straight column of white steam from her white collared smoke stack, as with splashing wheel and rushing prow she started on her career, receiving a parting cheer from those who had remained to see her off.
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Original US registry #145400; following first rebuild : 145477; after second rebuild : 200263
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1884-11-06
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As built : ; : ; 1903:
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Telephone
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U.B. Scott
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Stern-wheel
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In 1885: 385 gross; 334 registered; in 1888; tonnaged increased later.
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Inland passenger/freight, later, ferry
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—Randall V. Mills, Sternwheelers Up Columbia.
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Telephone was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1884 by Captain Uriah Bonsor "U.B." Scott for service on the Columbia River. Reputedly the fastest steamboat in the world in its time, Telephone served on the Columbia River and San Francisco Bay. Telephone was rebuilt at least twice. The first time was after a fire in 1887 which nearly destroyed the vessel. The reconstructed and much larger second vessel was sometimes referred to as Telephone No. 2. The third vessel, Telephone No. 3, built in 1903 and using components from the second steamer was larger but little used during its time on the Columbia river.
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1884-11-06
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1885-03-01
