page_title: Shoalwater (sidewheeler 1852)
section_title: Mechanical failure and renaming as Fenix
hierarchical_section_title: Shoalwater (sidewheeler 1852) / Mechanical failure and renaming as Fenix
caption_attribution_description: steamboat captain Leonard White
context_page_description: The steamboat Shoalwater was the sixth steamer to operate on the upper Willamette River, which refers to the part of the river above Willamette Falls at Oregon City. In a short career of six years, Shoalwater was renamed Fenix, Franklin, and Minnie Holmes. Shoalwater was the first steamboat in Oregon to suffer a boiler explosion, although no fatalities resulted.
context_section_description: On April 30, 1853, while Shoalwater was making a landing below Rock Island near Butteville on the Willamette River between Champoeg and Canemah, the steam ran up too fast, causing a flue to collapse. Several persons received injuries, none of which, however, resulted seriously.  The accident proved so expensive that the vessel changed ownership and name, this time to Fenix (the owners' method of spelling Phoenix).
caption: Leonard White (d.1870).
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