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Colorado II (sternwheeler)
''Colorado'', second of its name on the Colorado River, was a stern-wheel paddle-steamer, rebuilt from the original ''Colorado'' was the fifth steamboat on the Colorado River. It was first put on the river in December 1862.
At the end of its service life the first ''Colorado's'' hull was dismantled in April, 1862. Its engine and boiler was removed and used to equip the new, larger stern-wheel ''Colorado'' that was built for the George A. Johnson & Company in San Francisco by John G. North a well known builder of steamboats in California. 〔( Scott, Erving M. and Others, ''Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II'', Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, p. 125 )〕 It was assembled and launched under the guns of Fort Yuma, in Arizona City, for fear of an attack by Confederate raiders.〔( Richard E. Lingenfelter, Steamboats on the Colorado River, 1852-1916, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1978 )〕
The new ''Colorado'' was equipped with the old ''Colorados 80 horsepower steam engine, it was a 179 ton boat slightly larger than the older boat, 145 feet long and with a 29 foot beam. 〔
Captained by Stephen Thorne, the Colorado II remained on the river until it was dismantled in 1882.
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