page_title: Harvest Queen (sternwheeler)
section_title: Dimensions and engineering
hierarchical_section_title: Harvest Queen (sternwheeler) / Dimensions and engineering
caption_attribution_description: English: Steamers Harvest Queen on right, Almota on left, at Almota, WT, on the Snake River, in 1880.
context_page_description: Harvest Queen was the name of two stern-wheel steamboat built and operated in Oregon. Both vessels were well known in their day and had reputations for speed, power, and efficiency.The first Harvest Queen, widely considered one of the finest steamers of its day, was constructed at Celilo, Oregon, which was then separated from the other portions of the navigable Columbia River by two stretches of difficult to pass rapids.
  At considerable risk, this steamer was taken down through the first set of rapids in 1881, and the second set in 1890. Thereafter the first Harvest Queen was worked primarily between Astoria and Portland, Oregon until 1900, when it was dismantled. Most of the machinery was installed in a new, slightly smaller vessel, also called the Harvest Queen, which, although it had accommodations for passengers, was primarily worked as a towboat.
  In 1926 the second Harvest Queen was sold to a scrap metal concern, Alaska Junk Company, which sought a buyer for the steamer. With no buyer found, the boat was stripped out and then abandoned near Ross Island.
context_section_description: As built, Harvest Queen was 200 ft (60.96 m) feet long, exclusive of the fantail, which was the overhang at the stern of the boat on which the sternwheel was mounted.  Harvest Queen had a beam (width) of  37 ft (11.28 m) feet, which was exclusive of the guards, the wide wooden protective timbers running along the top of the hull.  Counting the fantail and the guards, Harvest Queen was  226 ft (68.88 m) feet long, with a beam of  42 ft (12.80 m) feet.  The depth of hold was  7.5 ft (2.29 m) feet.  Depending on the load, the steamer's draft ranged from  3.5 ft (1.07 m) to  6 ft (1.83 m) feet.  The vessel could carry nearly 500 tons of cargo. Overall size of the vessel was 845.80 gross and 697.04 registered tons.  The official merchant vessel registry number was 95534.
  Harvest Queen was driven by twin horizontally-mounted single cylinder steam engines, each turning an arm, called a pitman, connected to the stern-wheel. Each engine had a bore of  20 in (50.8 cm) and a piston stroke of  8 ft (2.44 m).
caption: Harvest Queen, on right, at Almota, W.T. on the Snake River. Steamer Almota is on left. Photograph taken by Capt. James W. Troup.
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