Photographic Print
Archival Item
1996.42.21
Black-and-white photo, captioned (mistakenly) 'Str. Joseph Classett in Miles Canyon'. [Actually steamer Clifford Sifton.]
Original photos taken by Henry Dow Banks when he was a member of the Mysterious 36, prospecting the Shorty Creek area in 1898. Original albums in the collection at MacBride Museum.
A wooden sternwheeler; 120.0 feet long, with 24.0 foot beam and 4.5 foot hold. Gross tonnage 291.41, registered as 183.59 tons.
Powered by a pair of horizontal high-pressure steam engines built in 1898 by Wolff & Zureker of Portland, Oregon. The cylinders had 10 inch diameter and 48 inch stroke, producing 6.6 NHP. 1898-1899, built at Lake Bennett; MacBride says it was by a syndicate of women from Kansas, Affleck says John Julian built it for the Dominion Steamboat Line Company Ltd.
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Powered by a pair of horizontal high-pressure steam engines built in 1898 by Wolff & Zureker of Portland, Oregon. The cylinders had 10 inch diameter and 48 inch stroke, producing 6.6 NHP. 1898-1899, built at Lake Bennett; MacBride says it was by a syndicate of women from Kansas, Affleck says John Julian built it for the Dominion Steamboat Line Company Ltd.
http://explorenorth.com/library/ships/clifford_sifton.html