page_title: Mascot (sternwheeler)
section_title: Engineering
hierarchical_section_title: Mascot (sternwheeler) / Engineering
caption_attribution_description: English: Machinery room of Mascot, circa 1900. Note certificates on bulkhead, probably engineers licenses.
context_page_description: Mascot was a sternwheel-driven steamboat built in 1890 which operated primarily on a route running from Portland, Oregon down the Willamette and Columbia rivers to points on the Lewis and Lake rivers. Points served included the town of Woodland, Washington, on the main branch of the Lewis, and La Center, Washington on the east fork.
  Mascot also served Ridgefield on the Lake River. Mascot operated briefly as a replacement boat on the upper Willamette River. Mascot has been described as the "prime example of a jobbing boat." Mascot was in operation from 1890 to 1911, including a 1908 reconstruction, which was a relatively long time for a vessel of its type, built entirely of wood.
  This sternwheeler should not be confused with the small steamboat Mascot which operated at about the same time on the Alsea River and Yaquina Bay.
  Mascot was operated a route that ran between Portland, Oregon and the Lewis and Lake rivers in Cowlitz and Clark counties in southwestern Washington.
  Although Mascot was profitable, it had a series of sinkings and other accidents giving it a reputation as a "hoodoo" boat, that is, a jinxed vessel.
context_section_description: Mascot was driven by twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, each with a bore of 13 (or 15) inches and a stroke of 60 inches.  The boiler generating the steam for these engines was wood-fired.
caption: Machinery room on Mascot.  One of the two steam engines is on the right.  Man in image is probably the chief engineer.
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