List of ships in British Columbia
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The following is a list of vessels notable in the history of the Canadian province of British Columbia, including Spanish, Russian, American and other military vessels and all commercial vessels on inland waters as well as on saltwater routes. Royal Navy ships are listed separately in List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest.
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| Activo | Cosme Beltodano, Salvador Menéndez, Salvador Fidalgo, José María Narváez, others | brigantine | 200 ton, 16 guns, 2 masts | Spain | late 18th to early 19th centuries | Sometimes spelled Activa | |||||
| SS Abyssinia | Abyssinia | Steamship: passenger and freight liner | 3651 tons | CPR (chartered from Cunard) | 1887, TransPacific record on inaugural CPR shipment from Orient to NY/UK | 1887-1891 | destroyed by fire | First of CPR liners, pre-Empress series | |||
| Adventure | Orcasitas | Robert Haswell | sloop, merchant | U.S. | First U.S. ship built in the Pacific | ||||||
| SS Albion | |||||||||||
| SS Alert | |||||||||||
| SS Alice | |||||||||||
| Alpha | steam launch | Arrow Lakes and Columbia River during CPR construction | |||||||||
| SS Amelia | |||||||||||
| Aránzazu | Juan Bautista Matute, Jacinto Caamaño, John Kendrick, Jr., others | frigate | Spain | scientific/ethnographic survey | circa 1789-1795 | Also spelled Aranzazú | |||||
| Argonaut | James Colnett | Britain | Captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis | ||||||||
| SS Arthur | |||||||||||
| SS Astrolabe | La Pérouse | France | |||||||||
| Atahualpa | U.S. | attacked in Clayoquot Sound | |||||||||
| Atrevida | José de Bustamante | corvette | 120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men | Spain | Launched 1788, returned to Spain 1794 | Twin of the Descubierta | |||||
| Atrevida | Texada Island Ferry | 1940-1960 | very small car ferry |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| RMS BC Express | Joseph Bucey | sternwheeler | Gross 449 Registered 283 | Barnard's Express | Launched at Soda Creek June 1912 | Retired in 1920 at South Fort George | |||||
| Beaver | sidewheeler | Britain | HBC | 1836-1888 | Wrecked Prospect Point | Boulton and Watt beam engines | |||||
| SS Boston | |||||||||||
| Boussole | La Pérouse | France | |||||||||
| SS Butterworth | William Brown | 400 tons | Britain | William Brown | Fur trading in 1790s | Part of the "Butterworth squadron", including Jackall and Prince Lee Boo | |||||
| RMS B.X. | Owen Forrester Browne | sternwheeler | Gross 513 Registered 283 | 16 inches | Canada | Barnard's Express | Launched in Soda Creek May 13th 1910 | Sank in August 1919, Salvaged and Retired October 1919 |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| Cadboro | HBC | carried J. Douglas from Ft. Nisqually to site of Ft. Victoria, 1842 | |||||||||
| SS Caledonia | |||||||||||
| SS Captain Cook | |||||||||||
| SS Cariboo | |||||||||||
| SS Cecil | |||||||||||
| SS Champion | |||||||||||
| MV Charlotte | Owen Forrester Browne Frank Odin | sternwheeler | Gross 217 Registered 79 | Canada | North British Columbia Navigation Company | Launched at Quesnel on August 3rd 1896 | Wrecked at Fort George Canyon, salvaged and abandoned at Quesnel 1910 | ||||
| Chernui Orel | Russia | ||||||||||
| Chichagoff | Russia | ||||||||||
| MV Chilco | Nechacco | John Bonser in 1909-10 George Ritchie 1910-11 | sternwheeler | Gross 129 Registered 76 | Canada | Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company | Launched at Quesnel May 25th 1909 | Tore apart in ice jam at Cottonwood Canyon in April 1911. Nothing recovered | First sternwheeler to navigate the Grand Canyon of the Fraser | ||
| MV Chilcotin | D.A. Foster | sternwheeler | Gross 435 Registered 274 | Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company | Launched at Soda Creek July 20th 1910 | Retired 1914 | |||||
| City of Ainsworth | Lean | sternwheeler | Canada | Sank in storm on Kootenay Lake November 29th, 1898 9 lives lost | Wreck is heritage site | ||||||
| SS Colonel Moody | |||||||||||
| SS Columbia | Britain | HBC | |||||||||
| Columbia | US | Columbia River and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company | Arrow Lakes-Columbia River service | destroyed by fire | |||||||
| SS Columbia Rediviva | Columbia | Robert Gray | U.S. | First exploration of the Columbia River | |||||||
| SS Commodore | |||||||||||
| Concepción | Francisco de Eliza, others | depot-guardship, frigate, "warship" | Spain | Guarded Fort San Miguel in 1790 | |||||||
| MV Conveyor | Jack Shannon | sternwheeler | gross 725 registered 457 | Canada | Foley, Welch and Stewart | Launched on Skeena River in 1909, Fraser River in 1912 | Retired at Fort George | Worked on both GTP and PGE rail construction | |||
| SS Convoy | |||||||||||
| SS Consort | |||||||||||
| Cortez | Spoin | ||||||||||
| SS Cowlitz | |||||||||||
| SS Cutch | schooner-rigged steamship | Canada | Union Steamship Company | Union Steamship Company's first successful passenger ship | Later served as a gunboat in South America |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments | ||||||||||||
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| Dare (schooner) | 3-masted schooner | rwewced Dec. 23, 1880 off Carmanah Point[1] while en route from San Francisco to Tacoma | home port North Bend OR; Dare Point near Carmanah is named after the ship.
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SS Demaris Cove | |||||||||||||||||||
| Descubierta | Alessandro Malaspina | corvette | 120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men | Spain | Launched 1788, returned to Spain 1794 | Twin of the Atrevida | |||||||||||||||||
| Dobraia Namerenia | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Dolphin | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Dryad | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Duchess of San Lorenzo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Eagle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eleanora (ship) | Eleanor | Simon Metcalfe | U.S. | Almost captured during 1789 Nootka Crisis | American fur trading vessel | ]
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| SS Eliza Anderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Emily Harris | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Emma Rooke | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| RMS Empress of Japan | steamship/ocean liner | 5,905 GRT | Canada | Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) | trans-Pacific speed record until 1914 | 1926, scrapped | |||||||||||||||||
| RMS Empress of Japan | RMS Empress of Scotland, SS Hanseatic | steamship/ocean liner | 30,030 GRT | Canada, Germany | Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) | 1966, fire in NYC harbor | |||||||||||||||||
| SS England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| MV Enterprise | JW Doane and Thomas Wright | sternwheeler | Canada | Gustavus Blin-Wright | Made one trip to Takla Lake for Omenica Gold Rush | Launched at Alexandria May 9th 1863 | Wrecked on Trembleur Lake 1871 | First sternwheeler on upper Fraser River. First of only two to travel to Takla Lake | |||||||||||||||
| SS Europa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Exact | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Experiment |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair American | Thomas Humphrey Metcalfe | schooner | U.S., Native Hawaiian | Captured by Spain during 1789 Nootka Crisis, returned by 1790. Captured by Hawaiians in 1790. | American fur trading vessel. Captured, crewed and captained by Native Hawaiians in 1790 | ||||||
| SS Fairy | |||||||||||
| Favorita | |||||||||||
| SS Felice | |||||||||||
| Felice Adventure | Felice Adventurer, Feliz Aventureira, Feliz Aventurero, Felice Aventura | 1788, carried materials for building North West America to Nootka Sound | Fur trading vessel in late 1780s, British but registered as Portuguese | ||||||||
| Fenis and St. Joseph | Sao Jao y Fenix | John de Barrus Andrade (or Robert Duffin) | 50 foot open sailing vessel | probably Portuguese | transported Zachary Mudge to China, as part of the Vancouver Expedition | 1792 | probably an early use of a flag of convenience | ||||
| SS Florencia | |||||||||||
| SS Florinda | |||||||||||
| Flying Dutchman | William Moore | first lumber shipment from Burrard Inlet; Moodyville August, 1863 | |||||||||
| MV Fort Fraser | Doctor | John Bonser (1910) George Ritchie (1911-13) | sternwheeler | gross 33, registered 21 | Canada | Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company | launched at Soda Creek June 1910 | retired in 1913 | First sternwheeler to navigate the upper Fraser River to Tête Jaune Cache | ||
| SS Fort Yale | |||||||||||
| Forty-Nine | Leonard White | Big Bend Gold Rush/CPR Survey | 1865-1866/1870s | end of gold rush, revived for CPR survey | Big Bend service was from Marcus, Washington to La Porte, British Columbia; from 1871 supply ship for Walter Moberly's survey party |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Ganymede | |||||||||||
| SS George Emery | |||||||||||
| SS Georgianna | |||||||||||
| Golden Hind | Golden Hinde, Golden Hynde, Pelican | Francis Drake | galleon | 300 | 9 feet | circumnavigation | Alleged to have visited the BC Coast | ||||
| SS Grace | |||||||||||
| SS Growler | |||||||||||
| SS Gustavus III |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Halcyon | |||||||||||
| SS Hancock | |||||||||||
| SS Harmon | |||||||||||
| SS Harpooner | |||||||||||
| Hazelton | John Bonser Joseph Bucey | sternwheeler | Canada | Robert Cunningham and Hudsons Bay Company | 1901-1912 | made obsolete on Skeena River due to completion of GTP | sold to Prince Rupert Yacht Club | ||||
| Hope | brig | U.S. |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial Eagle | James Barkley | Austria | |||||||||
| Inlander | Joseph Bucey 1910-11 John Bonser 1911-12 | sternwheeler | Canada | Prince Rupert and Skeena River Navigation Company | 1910-1912 | abandoned at Port Essington | last sternwheeler on Skeena River | ||||
| Iphigenia (ship) | Ephigenia | William Douglas | Captured by Spain in 1789 Nootka Crisis but released | Fur trading vessel in late 1780s; British but registered as Portuguese | |||||||
| SS Isaac Todd | |||||||||||
| Isabella | Spain |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Jackal | SS Jackall | Alexander Stewart | Britain | William Brown | Fur trading in 1790s | Part of the "Butterworth squadron", including Butterworth and Prince Lee Boo | |||||
| SS Jane | |||||||||||
| SS Jefferson | |||||||||||
| SS Jenny | |||||||||||
| SS John Bright | wrecked near Clo-oose | inconclusive piracy & murder investigation |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments | ||||||||||||
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| SS King George | Nathaniel Portlock | Britain | Etches and Company (King George's Sound Company) | 1786-87, fur trading in Pacific Northwest with Queen Charlotte under George Dixon | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kingfisher | Capt. Stephenson | sloop | three crew & captain massacred by Ahousaht Nuu-chah-nulth, 1864 | punitive expedition by HMS Sutlej and HMS Devastation destroys eight villages | |||||||||||||||||||
| Komagata Maru | steam liner | Japan | blockade of East Indian immigration, Vancouver | 1914 |
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Kootenai | sternwheeler | Japan | CPR construction | 1880s | service was from Northport, Washington to Farwell (Revelstoke, British Columbia) |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| Lady Washington | see Washington) | ||||||||||
| La Flavie | |||||||||||
| La Solide | |||||||||||
| La Plata | Spain | ||||||||||
| SS Labouchere | |||||||||||
| SS Lady of the Lake | Canada | Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Douglas Road | |||||||||
| SS Langley | |||||||||||
| SS Lausanne | |||||||||||
| SS Leviathan | |||||||||||
| SS Lillooet | survey ship | ||||||||||
| SS Llama | |||||||||||
| Loriot | Lieut. Lieut. William A. Slacum, Capt. Bancroft | brig, exploration | U.S. | 1836 | |||||||
| SS Lydia |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments | ||||||||||||
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| SS Margaret | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Marquis of Bute | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Marsella | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Maurelle | Douglas Road, Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Lillooet Lake | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Marten | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Mary Dare | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Massachusetts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Meg Merrilies | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Mercury | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS Mexican | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mexicana | Cayetano Valdés y Flores | goleta (schooner and brig) | 46 foot long (43 foot on the keel), 12 foot beam, 33 "toneladas" burden, complement of 21 men | Spain | Built 1791 in San Blas | Sister ship of Sutil | |||||||||||||||||
| SS Milton Badger | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mount Royal (sternwheeler) | SB Johnson | sternwheeler | Canada | Hudson's Bay Company | 1902-1907 | Wrecked in Kitselas Canyon, six lives lost | |||||||||||||||||
| SS Moyie | sternwwheeler | Canada | Canadian Pacific Railway and in 1957, Kootenay Lake Historical Society | after a nearly 60 year career, was the last passenger sternwheeler to operate in Canada | launched October 22nd, 1898. taken out of service April 27th, 1957 | berthed and restored at Kaslo, now a National historic site | World's oldest surviving intact passenger sternwheeler
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SS Mumford | Collins Overland Telegraph |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Nanaimo Packet | |||||||||||
| SS Nancy | |||||||||||
| MV Nechacco | Chilco | John Bonser George Ritchie | sternwheeler | Gross 129 Registered 76 | Canada | Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company | launched May 25th, 1909 at Quesnel | Tore apart in ice jam at Cottonwood Canyon April 1911 | First sternwheeler to navigate the Grand Canyon of the Fraser | ||
| SS Nereide | |||||||||||
| SS Nootka | |||||||||||
| SS Norman Morrison | |||||||||||
| North West America | Robert Funter | sloop or schooner | About 40-50 tons | Britain | John Meares | First non-indigenous ship built in Pacific Northwest; captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis, renamed Santa Gertrudis la Magna and later Santa Saturnina | Launched September 20, 1788 |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| MV Operator | Con Myers | sternwheeler | gross 698 registered 439 | Canada | Foley, Welch and Stewart | Launched on Skeena River in 1909, Fraser River in 1912 | Retired at Fort George | Worked on both GTP and PGE rail construction | |||
| Orcasitas | see Adventure | ||||||||||
| Orel | see ['Chernui Orel | Russia | |||||||||
| Orizaba | Spain | ||||||||||
| SS Orpheus | U.S. | Sinking of SS Pacific | wrecked on Cape Beale | ||||||||
| Otter]] | United KingdomBritain | HBC | |||||||||
| SS Owhyhee |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Pacific | U.S. | collision with SS Orpheus off Cape Flttery | sunk, 300 or more lost, 2 survivors | ||||||||
| Palerma | |||||||||||
| SS Pallas | |||||||||||
| SS Pedler | |||||||||||
| SS Petrel | |||||||||||
| Phoenix | Hugh Moore | sea otter trade | 1792-1794 | East India Company ship of Bombay | |||||||
| SS Polly | |||||||||||
| SS Prince Albert | |||||||||||
| SS Prince George | |||||||||||
| SS Prince Lee Boo | Captain Gordon, Captain Sharp | Britain | William Brown | Fur trading in 1790s | Part of the "Butterworth squadron", including Butterworth and Jackall. Served as tender to Butterworth | ||||||
| SS Prince of Wales | James Colnett, James Johnstone | 171 tons, complement of 35 men, carried 14 cannons | Etches and Company (King George's Sound Company) | Fur trading in the Pacific Northwest, 1788-89 | Launched about 1752 | Crew included Archibald Menzies | |||||
| SS Prince of Wales | Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Douglas Road, Lillooet Lake | ||||||||||
| SS Prince Rupert | |||||||||||
| SS Prince William Henry | |||||||||||
| Princesa | Esteban José Martínez, Salvador Fidalgo, Jacinto Caamaño, others | frigate | Spain | 1788, sailed to Alaska under Martínez | late 18th and early 19th centuries | Used to establish a short-lived Spanish post at Neah Bay | |||||
| Princess Royal | Princesa Real | Spain | |||||||||
| SS Princess Sophia | 2,320 tons | Canadian Pacific | 1918 | ||||||||
| SS Providence |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Queen Charlotte | George Dixon | Britain | Etches and Company (King George's Sound Company) | 1786-87, fur trading in Pacific Northwest with King George under Nathaniel Portlock | |||||||
| MV Queen of the North | Canada | BC Ferries | sunk off Gil Island | ||||||||
| MV Quesnel | City of Quesnel | Donald Arthur Foster | sternwheeler | Gross 130 Registered 177 | Canada | Telesphore Marion {Quesnel Merchant} | Launched in May 1909 at Quesnel | Wrecked at Fort George Canyon May 1921 | Last sternwheeler on upper Fraser River |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Recovery | |||||||||||
| Resolution | US | marine fur trade | crew massacred by Cumshewa and his people at Cumshewa Inlet, 1794 | ||||||||
| MV Robert C Hammond | sternwheeler | Gross 250 Registered 158 | Canada | Fort George Lake and River Transportation Company | Launched on May 22nd 1913 at Central Fort George | Retired 1914 | |||||
| SS Rosalind | |||||||||||
| SS Royal Charlie | |||||||||||
| SS Ruby |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| St. Roch | Henry Larsen | Canada | RCMP | First voyage through Northwest Passage | |||||||
| San Carlos | Francisco de Eliza, others | packet ship and storeship | 72 foot long (keel), 22 foot beam, 15 foot draft, 16 four-pound cannons | Spain | late 18th to early 19th centuries | Carried a 28 foot longboat | |||||
| Santa Gertrudis la Magna | Santa Gertrudis | José María Narváez | sloop or schooner | About 40-50 tons | Spain | Was the North West America, captured during Nootka Crisis and renamed | Built 1788, captured by Spain in 1789, rebuilt in 1790 as Santa Saturnina | ||||
| Santa Saturnina | La Orcasitas, Horcasitas | José María Narváez, Juan Carrasco | schooner | 32 "tonales" burden | 32 foot 10 inch length, 11 foot 10 inch beam, 5 foot draft, 4 three-pound cannons | Spain | Built in 1790 from the disassembled Santa Gertrudis | Carried 8 two-man oars and 20 days supply of food, complement of 22 men | |||
| Santa Saturnina | Alonso de Torres | "large warship" | Spain | Transferred from Peru to San Blas and Pacific Northwest in 1792 | Crew in 1792 included naturalist José Moziño, who observed the Nuu-chah-nulth and recommended Spanish abandonment of Nootka Sound | ||||||
| Santiago | Juan Pérez, Bruno de Heceta | Spain | 1774, under Pérez, sailed to Pacific Northwest; 1775, under Heceta, found mouth of Columbia River | ||||||||
| USS Saranac | United States | US Navy | first steam vessel to fall prey to Ripple Rock | ||||||||
| SS Sea Bird | |||||||||||
| Sea Otter | James Hanna | brig | 60 tons | 1785, under Hanna, conducted one of the first British fur trading missions between the Pacific Northwest and China | |||||||
| SS Sea Otter (II) | |||||||||||
| SS Sierra Nevada | |||||||||||
| SS Sir James Douglas | |||||||||||
| Skeena | Magar 1909-1911 Charles Seymour 1914-1925 | sternwheeler | Canada | Grand Trunk Pacific Railway 1908-1914 Charles Seymour 1914-1925 | Last sternwheeler on lower Fraser River | Launched in 1909, | sold and converted to barge in 1925 | Delivered meat for Pat Burns | |||
| MV Skuzzy | Ausbury Insley and SR Smith | sternwheeler | Canada | Took 16 days to navigate 16 miles of Fraser River from Hells Gate Canyon to Boston Bar | Launched on May 4th, 1882 at Spuzzum | First sternwheeler to arrive in Lytton | |||||
| Sonora | Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra | Spain | 1775, sailed to Alaska | ||||||||
| SS Sophia | U.S. | Inside Passage & passenger disaster during Klondike Gold Rush | sunk in Lynn Canal | ||||||||
| Sumatra | |||||||||||
| SS Surprise (I) | |||||||||||
| SS Surprise (II) | |||||||||||
| SS Susan Sturges | |||||||||||
| Sutil | Dionisio Alcalá Galiano | goleta (brig) | 46 foot long (43 foot on the keel), 12 foot beam, 33 "toneladas" burden, complement of 20 men | Spain | Built 1791 in San Blas | Sister ship of Mexicana | |||||
| SS Sutil | |||||||||||
| SS Swiss Boy |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| MV Taseco | |||||||||||
| SS Templar | |||||||||||
| Tepic | Spain | ||||||||||
| SS Thames City | |||||||||||
| SS Three Brothers | |||||||||||
| MV T'lagunna | Canada | BC DoH | |||||||||
| Tonquin | U.S. | American Fur Company | Founding of Ft. Astoria | blown up/scuttled in Clayoquot Sound | |||||||
| SS Tory | |||||||||||
| SS Tynemouth |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| SS Umatilla | paddle steamer | Fraser & Cariboo Gold Rushes | |||||||||
| SS Una | |||||||||||
| SS Union |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | HBC | first to sail directly London-Victoria, 1845 | |||||||||
| SS Vancouver (II) | |||||||||||
| SS Venus | |||||||||||
| MV Victoria | JW Doane and Thomas Wright | sternwheeler | Canada | G.B. Wright | Built at Quesnel in 1868 | Berthed at Alexandria 1886 | |||||
| SS Vigilant |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| Washington | |||||||||||
| SS William and Ann | |||||||||||
| SS Woodpecker |
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| Ship | Other names | Captain(s) | Type | Tons | Draft | Registry (flag) | Owner(s) | Events/locations | Dates in BC | Demise | Comments |
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| Yascathchnoi | Yasashna | Russia |
[edit] References
- British Columbia Chronicle: Adventurers by Sea and Land, Helen B. Akrigg and G.P.V. Akrigg, Discovery Press, Vancouver, 1975. ISBN
- British Columbia Chronicle: Gold and Colonists, Helen B. Akrigg and G.P.V. Akrigg, Discovery Press, Vancouver, 1977. ISBN
- The Nootka Connection, Derek Pethick, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancovuer, 1980. ISBN
- British Columbia Archives
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1971), British Columbia Place Names, Their Origin and History (Facsimile reprint of 1909 edition ed.), Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 0-88894-143-9
[edit] See also
- Steamboats of the Upper Fraser River in British Columbia
- Steamboats of the Skeena River
- Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes
- Steamboats of Lake Okanagan
- Vessels of the Lakes Route
- List of Royal Navy ships in the Pacific Northwest
- Graveyard of the Pacific
- Inside Passage
- Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet
