The robots are not that good at reading old newspapers, but some information might still be gleaned from these two attempts;
Fri 5 Jan 1917
Page 4
AN AUXILIARY SCHOONER.
A_ ATXILIARY SCHOONER.
eecording to cable advices, the new
-Amnerican fxiliary five-masted schooner
City of Portland has soiled from the
Columbia River for Port "irie with a bli
cargo of lumber. The City of Portlan,?
is the first of the new auxiliary schoon
ers built by Messra. :Charles t. McCor
mick and Co., of St. Helena. Oregon, fo
the Australian timber trade, and just.
before the anst mail left San F'nne?lss
the schooner wr? taken for a run up the
Colombia fliver to take on fuel car?e
BIhe lmanated to make the distance of L.
sae. in tbree hours, meeting wlth n
icur-kcnot currenlt. " "The vessel way
deslgned to make eight knots under
power, and her showing during the trial is
etonsidereed remarkable, considering the
current and the stillness of the engine
bearing. The City of Portland is a five
tuasted 'bald-hended" schooner. t'no
jigger mast i? of hollow steel. The lmo.
tor exhaust is connected to it. All
smoeke emerges from the top of the mast.
The galley stove as well Is connected
to the tust. She has a length over all
of 278tt., beam of 4tft.. and depth of
hold ltfCt. Gin. She' Is fitted with two
semi-Diesel engines of 320 h.p, each. The
vessel has a fuel capacity of 1200 barrels
of oll. The ship is electrically lighted,
throughout. Approximately 300,000tt, of
timber for Port Pirle was carried on the
trial trip below deck, and the vessel
after taking fuel dropped back to the
mill of the Charles R. McCortmack Lum
ber Company to resume her loading. Shle
was built to carry a total cargo of.
2,000,000ft., but according to adviccs, she
had exceeded the expectations of hler
builders in tile matter of carrying capa
city, and by the time the decltload was
on it was expected that the total cargo
would be something like 2,400,000ft. A
crew of 20 'is carried.
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I ALXILl ARA' SC1I0OM ft CITA' Ol' POTITI AND |
MIAVC VKTI L, XAoclnrsclax
I The five-maated auxiliary nehooner, City of Port* I
land. Jurhed in port this morninjr Irom Honolulu, I
via Port Pirie, This vessel waa launched in the «*rly
part of the year, and is the first of seven auxiliary
schooners beinjr built for C. It. MacConnack and
Co,t of San Francisco, to trade with timber cargoes
between the Unite*! States and Australia.
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There is a picture on page 124 of Jim Gibbs' "West Coast Windjammers", the caption reads as follows:With two million board feet of lumber packed below and on deck, the five masted auxiliary bald-headed schooner City of Portland put to sea for McCormick lumber interests - destination Australia - 1916