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The Tutshi on blocking at Carcross in 1987, white hull and three decks with a buff and black stack, mountains behind
SS Tutshi · The Tutshi at Carcross, 1987 · Photo: Intermar Marine Services Ltd., Report of Survey, 1987
Alaska · Yukon · Pacific Northwest

The sternwheelers of the North

An engineer's research notebook on the river steamers that carried the North: their hulls, engines and boilers, documented in photographs, archival records and 3D reconstructions.

Vessels

The Tutshi on blocking at Carcross in 1987, white hull and three decks with a buff and black stack, mountains behind
Yukon · 1917

SS Tutshi

Lake sternwheeler of the White Pass & Yukon Route's British Yukon Navigation Co., built at Carcross. Her engines and boiler survive at the SS Tutshi Memorial.

 The Keno on blocking beside the street in Dawson City, white hull and decks with a buff stack, the forward main deck under a temporary shelter, forested hill behind
Yukon · 1922

SS Keno

A smaller British Yukon Navigation Co. sternwheeler built for the Stewart River ore trade, preserved at Dawson City.

 The sternwheeler Nenana on display, white hull and three decks under a smoke-hazed amber sky, with spars and rigging at the bow
Alaska · 1933

SS Nenana

The Alaska Railroad's largest Yukon River steamboat, a passenger and freight packet launched at Nenana in 1933, now a National Historic Landmark in Fairbanks.

 The Klondike on blocking beside the river at Whitehorse, white hull and decks, yellow stack, under dark clouds with autumn trees behind
Yukon · 1937

SS Klondike (II)

The second Klondike, a Yukon River freight sternwheeler of the British Yukon Navigation Co., now preserved at Whitehorse.
Photographs to come
Pacific Northwest · 1939

Snagboat W.T. Preston

Steam sternwheel snagboat of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, which cleared snags and debris from Puget Sound and its rivers until 1981. Now a museum ship on land at Anacortes, Washington.

 The Portland moored on the Willamette River at Portland, white superstructure with blue trim and a black stack, capstans on her blue foredeck
Pacific Northwest · 1947

Steamer Portland

Steam sternwheel harbor tug built for the Port of Portland, preserved as a working museum vessel on the Willamette River.

Other Steam

The Keystone Driller on display in Haines, a green-painted steam drilling rig on iron wheels with a timber frame, vertical boiler and stack, the harbour and mountains behind
Steam drilling rig · Alaska

Keystone Driller

A steam-powered, self-propelled cable drill used for gold prospecting in the Chilkat Valley in the early 1900s, now on display in Haines, Alaska.

From the journal