''Colorado'', second of its name on the

Colorado River The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid drainage basin, watershed that encompasses parts of ...

, was a stern-wheel paddle-steamer, rebuilt from the original ''

Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...

'' was the fifth steamboat on the Colorado River. It was first put on the river in December 1862. At the end of its service life the first ''

's'' hull was dismantled in April, 1862. Its engine and boiler were removed and used to equip the new, larger stern-wheel ''Colorado'' that was built for the George A. Johnson & Company in San Francisco by John G. North a well known builder of steamboats in California. Scott, Erving M. and Others, ''Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II'', Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, p. 125
/ref> It was assembled and launched under the guns of

Fort Yuma Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861 and was abandoned May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of ...

, in Arizona City, for fear of an attack by

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raiders. Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978
The new ''Colorado'' was equipped with the old ''Colorados 80 horsepower steam engine, it was a 179-ton boat slightly larger than the older boat, 145 feet long and with a 29-foot beam. Captained by Stephen Thorne, the ''Colorado II'' remained on the river until it was dismantled in 1882.

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Steamboat Landing and Ferry at Fort Yuma. The "Colorado II." 1865
from Huntington Digital Library, hdl.huntington accessed July 25, 2015. Note mast in foreground for the ferry, It was for raising the tow cable out of the way of the steamboat stacks. Steamboats of the Colorado River Stern-wheel steamboats of California Merchant ships of the United States Ships built in San Francisco 1862 ships {{California-transport-stub