page_title: Clara Parker (sternwheeler)
section_title: Harvest Queen rescue
hierarchical_section_title: Clara Parker (sternwheeler) / Operations as Astorian / Harvest Queen rescue
caption_attribution_description: English: Harvest Queen (sternwheeler) ca. 1900, probably at Portland, Oregon on Willamette River.
context_page_description: Clara Parker was a sternwheel-driven steamboat which was operated on the lower Columbia and lower Willamette rivers in the 1880s. The steamer ran for about ten years out of Astoria, Oregon in towing and jobbing work. In 1890 Clara Parker was rebuilt and renamed Astorian.
  Astorian was operated intermittently from 1891 to 1903, when it was tied up to a levee in Portland, Oregon, where in April 1908 it sank. Astoria spent much of its time out of service drawing a "subsidy" from competitors who wanted to keep their fares and freight rates high by keeping out a potential competing steamer.
context_section_description: On January 23, 1892, Astorian took off 35 passengers from the sternwheeler Harvest Queen, which had grounded at Warrior Rock, near St. Helens, Oregon.  Astorian carried the passengers to Portland.  Harvest Queen was refloated with only minor damage.
caption: Harvest Queen, circa 1910.  Astorian rescued its passengers after it grounded on January 23, 1892.
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