Charles H. Spencer hulk

	CHARLES H. SPENCER Hulk
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Lee's Ferry, Arizona
Built	1911
Architect	Robertson,James; Schultze,Robertson & Schultze
NRHP reference No.	89001593
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1989

The Charles H. Spencer was a stern-wheel steamboat that was briefly used on the Colorado River to transport coal for gold refining operations at Lee's Ferry, Arizona.

In 1910, Charles H. Spencer arrived at Lee's Ferry in search of gold hidden in the Chinle shale. The company processed the shale by creating a mud and then removing the gold deposits by mercury amalgamation, which required a steady source of power. Finding a coal seam up river, Spencer commissioned a San Francisco company, Robertson-Schultz Co., to build the stern-wheel Paddle steamer, Charles Spencer, for the American Placer Corporation. James Robertson and Herman Rosenfelt built the ship.^[2] It was 92.5 feet long, 25 feet abeam and had a draft of 18 to 20 inches.^[3]^: 129 A 110 horse-power marine boiler powered a 12' stern paddle. The various parts were manufactured in San Francisco, shipped by rail to Marysvale, Utah, and conveyed by ox-cart to the mouth of Warm Creek, where the boat was assembled. The boat averaged 5–6 tons of coal on each trip. But by the end of the summer the operation was curtailed. The boat was docked. During a flood in 1921, the boat sank in shallow water. Later the superstructure was stripped of its lumber.^[2]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Lees Ferry "Charles H. Spencer" Steamboat". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-25.
^ Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 Template:Wayback

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[nps-2] "Lees Ferry "Charles H. Spencer" Steamboat". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-25.

[Lingenfelter-3] Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 Template:Wayback

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