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was the largest sidewheeler in the world. The next year the slightly larger 500-foot (150 m) length overall
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558:"The Columbia's Designers: Frank Kirby and Louis O. Keil"
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178:overall: 470 ft 10 in (143.51 m)
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757:. Detroit: Great Lakes Maritime Institute.
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217:at stern 29 ft 3 in (8.92 m)
81:Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company
689:International Marine Engineering (1913).
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730:. Washington: Government Printing Office
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367:called the "Gothic Room", named for its
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