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Black Hawk (steamboat)
''Black Hawk'' was one of three small iron-propeller driven steamboats manufactured in Philadelphia in about 1850 and shipped to the west coast of United States to be placed in river service. The other boats were Eagle (steamboat 1851), ''Eagle'' and ''Major Redding''. These boats were some of the earliest steamers to operate on the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers. They could carry about 12 passengers and perhaps a ton of cargo. The boats had to be small to make the run to Oregon City, Oregon, Oregon City, which passed through the Clackamas rapids a short distance downriver from the town. Dimensions ''Black Hawk'' was 30 feet long, with a beam of 7 feet and depth of hold of 3 feet. The boat's tonnage was 10. Tonnage was a measure of volume and not weight. Sacramento river service ''Black Hawk'' ran on the Sacramento River in 1850 under captain and engineer Jacob Kamm. When Kamm left the vessel in charge of the second engineer, a boiler pump m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Kamm
Jacob Kamm (12 December 1823 – 16 December 1912) was a prominent early transportation businessman in Oregon, USA. Early life Kamm was born on 12 December 1823, in Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. His family migrated to America when he was 8 to Illinois, St. Louis and then New Orleans. He worked as a printer's devil beginning at age 12. A story repeated after Kamm's death was that a thief stole $12 from him in 1837, leading Kamm to work on a Mississippi steamer, the ''Ark'', as a cabin boy. Trained as an engineer on the Mississippi River, he was certified chief engineer with the St. Louis Association of Steamboat Engineers at age 25. In 1849, he moved west with the California Gold Rush, piloting the ''Blackhawk'', a steamer, on the Sacramento River. Oregon Kamm moved to Oregon in 1850 after being hired by the Milwaukie, Oregon founder Lot Whitcomb onto his ship, ''The Lot Whitcomb'', being the chief engineer on the Willamette River. ''The Lot Whitcomb'' was launched on 25 Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
