Name/Title
"Monticello" barge working on rescue of Sea Scout Boat "Chinook" - Willamette Falls - 1952Entry/Object ID
P-3623Description
Clyde Straight, Oregon City Riverman, on SS Chinook securing lines so the ring craft may be lifted from the rocks near Willamette River Falls -
Gift of Robert Barnett
Oregon City
Willamette River
**Monday, April 14th, 1952, Army Corp of Engineer' barge "Monticello" with crane is viewed lifting the boat from water. The boat and occupant went over the falls on Saturday, April 12th The occupant, John Bailey, 41, was not found when the boat was lifted from the falls. (reported in the newpaper Herald and News of Klamath Falls, Oregon)**dlk