page_title: Sarah Dixon (sternwheeler)
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Sarah Dixon (sternwheeler) / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of sternwheeler Sarah Dixon and two of her officers, Henry E. Pape, chief engineer, on left, and George M. Shaver, captain, on right.
context_page_description: Sarah Dixon was a wooden sternwheel-driven steamboat operated by the Shaver Transportation Company on the Columbia and lower Willamette rivers from 1892 to 1926. Originally Sarah Dixon was built as a mixed use passenger and freight vessel, and was considered a prestige vessel for the time.
  Later, in 1906, Sarah Dixon was converted to become primarily a towing vessel. Sarah Dixon sustained a serious explosion in 1912, which killed the captain and the first mate. The steamboat was reconstructed, and served until 1926 when it was destroyed by fire while hauled out on a shipway for an additional reconstruction.
  After the 1926 reconstruction, Sarah Dixon remained in service, primarily as a towing and freighting vessel, until 1934, when its machinery was removed and the vessel was converted to a floating machine shop.
  The unpowered Sarah Dixon functioned in this capacity until 1949, when its wooden hull was becoming too weak to be relied upon. Sometime in 1950 or later, it was taken from Portland up the Columbia River to Paterson, Washington, where it eventually sank on its own.
caption: Sarah Dixon as built in 1892, also showing Henry Pape (or Pope) (1852-1907), known as “Poppy”[10] chief engineer, on left, and George McClellan Shaver (1865-1950), captain, on right.
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