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.

Ship Other names Captain Type Tons Draft Registry (flag) Owner Events/locations Dates in BC Demise Comments
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.A. First U.S. ship built in the Pacific
SS Albion
SS Alert
SS Alice
SS Alpha
SS Amelia
Aranzazu Spain
SS Argonaut
SS Arthur
SS Astrolabe La Pérouse France
Atahualpa U.S.A. attacked in Clayoquot Sound
Atrevida
MV BC Express Barnard's Express
Beaver Britain HBC
SS Boston
Boussole La Pérouse France
SS Butterworth
MV B.X. Barnard's Express
SS Cadboro
SS Caledonia
SS Captain Cook
SS Cariboo
SS Cecil
SS Champion
MV Charlotte
Chernui Orel Russia
Chichagoff Russia
MV Chilco
MV Chilcotin
SS Colonel Moody
SS Columbia Britain HBC
SS Columbia Rediviva Columbia Robert Gray U.S.A. First Exploration ofthe Columbia River
SS Commodore
Concepción
MV Conveyor
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
SS Demaris Cove
Descubierta Spain
Dobraia Namerenia Russia
SS Dolphin
SS Dryad
SS Duchess of San Lorenzo
SS Eagle
SS Eliza Anderson
SS Emily Harris
SS Emma Rooke
RMS Empress of Japan Canada CPR
SS England
SS Enterprise
SS Europa
SS Exact
SS Experiment
SS Fair American
SS Fairy
Favorita
SS Felice
SS Felice Adventure
SS Fenis and St. Joseph
SS Florencia
SS Florinda
Flying Dutchman
MV Fort Fraser
SS Fort Yale
SS Forty-Nine
SS Gaynmede
SS George Emery
SS Georgianna
Golden Hind
SS Grace
SS Growler
SS Gustavus III
*SS Halcyon
SS Hancock
SS Harmon
SS Harpooner
Hope
Imperial Eagle James Barkley Austria
SS Iphigenia
SS Isaac Todd
Isabella Spain
SS Jackal SS Jackall
SS Jane
SS Jefferson
SS Jenny
SS John Bright wrecked near Clo-oose inconclusive piracy & murder investigation
SS King George
SS Kingfisher
Komagata Maru steam liner Japan blockade of East Indian immigration, Vancouver 1914
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.A. 1836
SS Lydia
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 Spain
SS Milton Badger
SS Nanaimo Packet
SS Nancy
SS Norman Morrison
SS Nereide
SS Nootka
SS North West America Britain John Meares First Ship built on NW Coast, Nootka Sound
MV Operator
Orcasitas- see [[] see Adventure
Orel see ['[Chernui Orel]] Russia
Orizaba Spain
SS Orpheus U.S.A. Sinking of SS Pacific wrecked on Cape Beale
SS Otter Britain HBC
SS Owhyhee
SS Pacific U.S.A. collision with SS Orpheus off Cape Flttery sunk, 300 or more lost, 2 survivors
Palerma
SS Pallas
SS Pedler
SS Petrel
SS Phoenix
SS Polly
SS Prince Albert
SS Prince Lee Boo
SS Prince of Wales
SS Prince of Wales Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Douglas Road, Lillooet Lake
SS Prince William Henry
Princesa Spain
'SS Princess Royal Princesa Real Spain
'SS Princess Sophia 2,320 tons Canadian Pacific 1918
SS Providence
SS Queen Charlotte
MV Queen of the North Canada BC Ferries sunk off Gil Island
MV Quesnel
SS Recovery
SS Resolution
MV Robert Hammond
SS Rosalind
SS Royal Charlie
SS Ruby
St. Roch Canada RCMP First voyage through Northwest Passage
San Carlos Spain
Santa Gertrudis Santa Gertrudis Spain
Santa Saturnina Spain
Santiago Spain
SS Sea Bird
SS Sea Otter (I)
SS Sea Otter (II)
SS Sierra Nevada
SS Sir James Douglas
Sonora } Spain
SS Sophia U.S.A. Inside Passage & passenger disaster during Klondike Gold Rush sunk in Lynn Canal
Sumatra
SS Surprise (I)
SS Surprise (II)
SS Susan Sturges
SS Sutil
SS Swiss Boy
MV Taseco
SS Templar
Tepic Spain
SS Thames City
SS Three Brothers
MV T'lagunna Canada BC DoH
Tonquin U.S.A. American Fur Company Founding of Ft. Astoria blown up/scuttled in Clayoquot Sound
SS Tory
SS Tynemouth
SS Umatilla paddle steamer Fraser & Cariboo Gold Rushes
SS Una
SS Union
SS Vancouver (I)
SS Vancouver (II)
SS Venus
MV Victoria
SS Vigilant
Washington
SS William and Ann
SS Woodpecker
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

[edit] See also

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