Beaver (steamship)

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The Beaver about 1870
Career (Canada)
Name:	Beaver
Laid down:	London, England
Launched:	16 May 1836
In service:	1835-1888
Fate:	Wrecked in 1888 in Burrard Inlet, Vancouver
General characteristics
Length:	100 ft 9 in (30.7 m)
Beam:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft:	8 ft 6 in (2.6 m)
Propulsion:	steam, paddlewheel
Notes:	Displacement=109 Tons

The Beaver was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Launched 16 May 1836, the Beaver was used to service trading posts maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company between Puget Sound and Alaska. In 1862 she was chartered by the Royal Navy to survey and chart the coast of what is now the province of British Columbia. She was finally sold by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1874, and served until 25 July 1888 when she went aground on rocks at Prospect Point in Vancouver's Stanley Park. The wreck finally sank in July 1892, but only after enterprising locals stripped much of the wreck for souvenirs. The Vancouver Maritime Museum houses a collection of Beaver remnants. The site of the sinking has been commemorated with a plaque.

[edit] Statistics

• Power: 2 x 35hp (26 kW) Boulton & Watt steam engines driving two 13' (4m)- diameter paddlewheels
• Builder: Green, Wigram & Green, Blackwall Yard, London, England

[edit] See also

• William Henry McNeill
• Steamboats of the Columbia River
• List of steamboats on the Columbia River
• List of ships in British Columbia

[edit] Image Gallery

The wreck of the Beaver

Plaque commemorating the Beaver in Stanley Park, Vancouver.

[edit] External links

• Horner, John B. (1921). Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature. The J.K. Gill Co.: Portland
• An article on the Beaver from the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

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