Ship |
Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
Activo |
Activa |
Bodega y Quadra, Cosme Beltodano, Salvador Menéndez, Salvador Fidalgo, José María Narváez, others |
brigantine |
200 ton, 16 guns, 2 masts (originally 195 ton displacement, carried twelve 3-pounders and two 3-pounder swivel guns) |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
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Keel laid 9 December 1791; completed in 60 days; cost 29,854 pesos. Launched 29 February 1792. |
Remained in service of San Blas Naval Base until at least 1808. |
Built as a schooner specifically for Bodega's 1792 diplomatic voyage to Nootka Sound and named Activa. In 1793 or 1794 was reconfigured as a brigantine and renamed Activo.[1] |
SS Abyssinia |
Abyssinia |
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Steamship: passenger and freight liner |
3651 tons |
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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 |
Horcasitas, Orcasitas, Orcacitas |
Robert Haswell |
sloop, merchant |
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U.S., Spain |
Boston merchants, then Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
First U.S. ship built in the Pacific, traded to Bodega y Quadra in 1792. |
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SS Albion |
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SS Alert |
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SS Alice |
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Alpha |
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steam launch |
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Arrow Lakes and Columbia River during CPR construction |
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Amelia |
formerly French Emilie[2] |
Owen |
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United States |
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1793 |
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Ann |
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Hersey |
Schooner |
204 tons |
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US |
Bryant & Sturgis, Boston[3] |
Maritime Fur Trade |
1823 |
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Aránzazu |
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Juan Bautista Matute, Jacinto Caamaño, John Kendrick, Jr., others |
frigate |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
scientific/ethnographic survey |
circa 1789-1795 |
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Also spelled Aranzazú |
Argonaut |
Argonauta |
James Colnett |
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Britain |
King George's Sound Company, then joint company with John Meares and partners |
Captured by Spain during Nootka Crisis |
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After captured by Spain was briefly part of the Spanish Navy at San Blas and called a packet boat, Argonauta. It was to be part of the 1790 fleet sailing to Nootka Sound under Eliza, but the San Carlos was used instead.[4] |
SS Arthur |
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Astrolabe |
L'Astrolabe |
Fleuriot de Langle |
frigate |
500 tons |
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France |
French Navy |
La Pérouse Expedition. With Boussole, was 5th and 6th ships to visit Hawaii.[5] |
late 1780s |
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see also Boussole |
Atahualpa |
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Captain Adams |
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U.S., Russia |
Theodore Lyman and associates[6] |
attacked in Clayoquot Sound. Sold to Russians and renamed Bering.[5] |
1790s; 1801–1805, 1807, 1813 |
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Atrevida |
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José de Bustamante |
corvette |
120 foot length, 306 tons, 16 officers and 86 men |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy |
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Launched 1788, returned to Spain 1794 |
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Twin of the Descubierta |
Ship |
Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
RMS BC Express |
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Joseph Bucey |
sternwheeler |
Gross 449 Registered 283 |
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Barnard's Express |
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Launched at Soda Creek June 1912 |
Retired in 1920 at South Fort George |
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Beaver |
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sidewheeler |
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Britain |
HBC |
Maritime Fur Trade and military use from Columbia River to Alaska Panhandle |
1836-1888 |
Wrecked at Prospect Point, Stanley Park |
Boulton and Watt beam engines |
Belle Savage |
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US |
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1801, attacked by 150 Haida in Fitz Hugh Sound, vessel nearly seized.[7] |
1800-1802 |
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sea otter Maritime Fur Trade vessel |
Bordelais |
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Camille de Roquefeuil |
Ship |
200 tons, 8 guns, 34 crew |
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France |
Balguerie, Jr., Bordeaux, France |
Maritime Fur Trade |
1817, 1818 |
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1817, sailed from France to Chile, California, Nootka Sound.[3] |
Boston |
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John Salter |
"trading ship"[8] |
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US |
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On 22 March 1803, was seized by Maquinna, all but two of the crew "murdered"; a "desperate attempt by Maquinna to regain his prestige.[9] |
only survivors John Thompson and John R. Jewitt, the latter's account of his captivity is a classic in Pacific Northwest early history |
Boussole |
La Boussole |
La Pérouse |
frigate |
500 tons |
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France |
French Navy |
With Astrolabe, 5th and 6th ships to visit Hawaii.[5] |
late 1780s |
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Butterworth |
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William Brown |
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400 tons |
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Britain |
William Brown |
Maritime fur trading in 1790s |
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Part of the "Butterworth squadron", including Jackall and Prince Lee Boo |
RMS B.X. |
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Owen Forrester Browne |
sternwheeler |
Gross 513 Registered 283 |
16 inches |
Canada |
Barnard's Express |
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Launched in Soda Creek May 13, 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 |
Cadboro |
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Schooner, 4 guns, 12 men |
71 |
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Britain |
HBC |
carried J. Douglas from Ft. Nisqually to site of Ft. Victoria, 1842 |
Launched 1826[10] |
Sold (1846?)[10] |
HBC ship used for the PNW coast trade |
SS Caledonia |
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Captain Cook |
Betsey (renamed Captain Cook in 1785)[11] |
Henry Laurie (or Lawrie)[11] |
brig |
350 tons, crew of 61, including James Strange (1786 voyage)[11] |
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Britain |
James Strange and David Scott (future chairman of East India Company)[11] |
Left John Mackay at Nootka Sound to collect furs until Strange returned, but he never did. Mackay was taken aboard the Imperial Eagle in 1787. Under direction of James Strange, explored and named Queen Charlotte Sound; continued north to Prince William Sound. Tried but failed to sail to Copper Island. Returned to Macau in December 1786.[11][11] |
1786 |
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Sailed with the Experiment |
SS Cariboo |
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Archibald Jameison |
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Archibald Jameison |
At 2 in the morning on August 2nd 1861 the ship exploded as it was leaving Victoria harbour. 7 people died. |
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Sunk August 2nd 1861 |
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SS Cecil |
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SS Champion |
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MV Charlotte |
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Owen Forrester Browne Frank Odin |
sternwheeler |
Gross 217 Registered 79 |
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Canada |
North British Columbia Navigation Company |
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Launched at Quesnel on August 3, 1896 |
Wrecked at Fort George Canyon, salvaged and abandoned at Quesnel 1910 |
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Chernui Orel |
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Russia |
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Chichagoff |
Chichagov |
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Russia |
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MV Chilco |
Nechacco |
John Bonser in 1909-10 George Ritchie 1910-11 |
sternwheeler |
Gross 129 Registered 76 |
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Canada |
Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company |
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Launched at Quesnel May 25, 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 |
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D.A. Foster |
sternwheeler |
Gross 435 Registered 274 |
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Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company |
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Launched at Soda Creek July 20, 1910 |
Retired 1914 |
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City of Ainsworth |
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Lean |
sternwheeler |
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Canada |
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Sank in storm on Kootenay Lake November 29, 1898, 9 lives lost |
Wreck is heritage site |
Colonel Moody |
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Columbia |
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Barque, 6 guns, 24 men |
308 tons[10] |
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Britain |
HBC |
Launched 1835 |
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Sold (1850?)[10] |
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US |
Columbia River and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company |
Arrow Lakes-Columbia River service |
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destroyed by fire |
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Columbia Rediviva |
Columbia |
Robert Gray, John Kendrick |
full rigged ship[12] |
Burthen: 213 tons.[12] |
Length: 83′6″. Beam: 24′2″. Draft: 11'. Crew: 16-18 min, 30-31 max.[12] |
U.S. |
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First exploration of the Columbia River |
Built 1787 (or rebuilt, "rediviva" meaning "revived"), Plymouth, MA.[12] |
Decommissioned 15 Oct 1806, salvaged.[12] |
sometimes sailed with Lady Washington |
SS Commodore |
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Concepción |
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Francisco de Eliza, others |
depot-guardship, frigate, or corvette |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
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Guarded Fort San Miguel in 1790 and 1791. Described by Bodega: "is no more than a corvette with 26 small-calibre guns."[13] |
MV Conveyor |
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Jack Shannon |
sternwheeler |
gross 725 registered 457 |
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Canada |
Foley, Welch and Stewart |
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Launched on Skeena River in 1909, Fraser River in 1912 |
Retired at Fort George |
Worked on both GTP and PGE rail construction |
Convoy |
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William H. McNeil |
Brig |
135 tons |
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US |
Josiah Marshall, Boston[3] |
Maritime Fur Trade |
1826 |
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SS Consort |
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Cortez |
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Spain |
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SS Cowlitz |
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Britain |
HBC |
Launched 1840 |
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Sold 1851 |
HBC ship used for the PNW coast trade.[10] |
Crusader |
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Benjamin Pickens |
Brig |
110 tons |
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US |
Eliab Grimes.[3] |
Maritime Fur Trade |
1832 |
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Cutch |
Jessie Banning, Bogota |
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schooner-rigged steamship |
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Canada |
Union Steamship Company |
Union Steamship Company's first successful passenger ship |
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Later served as a gunboat in South America |
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Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
SS Eagle |
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193 tons[10] |
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Britain |
HBC |
Launched 1824, purchased by HBC 1827.[10] |
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Sold 1837[10] |
HBC ship used for the PNW coast trade.[10] |
Eleanora (ship) |
Eleanor |
Simon Metcalfe |
brig |
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U.S. |
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Almost captured during 1789 Nootka Crisis. |
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Captured by Haida under Koyah. |
American maritime fur trading vessel |
Eliza (merchant ship) |
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James Rowan[15] |
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US |
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1799 |
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SS Eliza Anderson |
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SS Emily Harris |
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SS Emma Rooke |
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RMS Empress of Japan |
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steamship/ocean liner |
5,905 GRT |
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Canada |
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) |
trans-Pacific speed record until 1914 |
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1926, scrapped |
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RMS Empress of Japan |
RMS Empress of Scotland, SS Hanseatic |
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steamship/ocean liner |
30,030 GRT |
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Canada, Germany |
Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP) |
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1966, fire in NYC harbor |
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SS England |
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MV Enterprise |
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JW Doane and Thomas Wright |
sternwheeler |
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Canada |
Gustavus Blin-Wright |
Made one trip to Takla Lake for Omenica Gold Rush |
Launched at Alexandria May 9, 1863 |
Wrecked on Trembleur Lake 1871 |
First sternwheeler on upper Fraser River. First of only two to travel to Takla Lake |
Enterprise (1861) |
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William Alexander Mouat and George Rudlin |
sidewheeler |
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Hudson's Bay Company |
The first wooden side-wheeler to travel between Victoria and New Westminster on the Fraser River |
Built at San Francisco in 1861 and bought by Hudson's Bay Company in 1862 |
Collided with the steamer R.P. Rithet (sternwheeler) 28 July 1885 |
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SS Europa |
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SS Exact |
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Experiment |
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John Guise[11] |
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150 tons, crew of "about 36"[11] |
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Britain |
James Strange and David Scott (future chairman of East India Company)[11] |
Maritime fur trading along the coast from Nootka Sound to Prince William Sound. With James Strange aboard sailed to China, arriving at Macau in November 1786.[11] |
1786 |
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Sailed with the Captain Cook |
Ship |
Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
Fair American |
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Thomas Humphrey Metcalf (Metcalfe?) |
schooner or brig |
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U.S. |
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Captured by Spain during 1789 Nootka Crisis, returned by 1790. |
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Captured by Hawaiians in 1790 |
American maritime fur trading vessel. Captured, crewed and captained by Native Hawaiians in 1790 |
Fairy |
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Rogers[2] |
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British[2] |
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1791, 1794 |
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Favorita |
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Ignacio de Arteaga |
frigate |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
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1779 |
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sailed with Princesa under Bodega y Quadra |
Felice |
Felice Adventure, Felice Adventurer, Feliz Aventureira, Feliz Aventurero, Felice Aventura |
Ostensibly Francisco José Viana, but really John Meares[16] |
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Portugal |
John Meares and partners |
Maritime Fur Trade vessel in the 1880s, captured with three others of Meares' ships by Spain in 1789, causing the Nootka Crisis but released in 1789 or 1790. |
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In 1788 carried materials for building the North West America to Nootka Sound. Together with the Iphigenia, flying the Portuguese flag to evade East India Company monopoly in the region, but actually British in operation |
Fenis and St. Joseph |
Sao Jao y Fenix, San José el Fénix |
Ostensibly John de Barros Andrade, but really Robert Duffin |
brig |
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Portugal |
Probably John Meares and partners |
transported Zachary Mudge to China, as part of the Vancouver Expedition |
1792 |
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sailing under a flag of convenience |
Florencia |
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Florinda |
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Flying Dutchman |
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William Moore |
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first lumber shipment from Burrard Inlet; Moodyville August 1863 |
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MV Fort Fraser |
Doctor |
John Bonser (1910) George Ritchie (1911–13) |
sternwheeler |
gross 33, registered 21 |
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Canada |
Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company |
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launched at Soda Creek June 1910 |
retired in 1913 |
First sternwheeler to navigate the upper Fraser River to Tête Jaune Cache |
SS Fort Yale |
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Forty-Nine |
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Leonard White |
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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 |
Ship |
Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
Margaret |
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Captain Magee |
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United States |
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1790s |
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SS Marquis of Bute |
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SS Marsella |
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SS Marten |
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William Alexander Mouat |
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SS Mary Dare |
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William Alexander Mouat |
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USS Massachusetts |
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Lt. Richard W. Meade |
screw steamer |
765 |
4.6 m (15 ft) |
US |
US Navy |
Puget Sound War |
1855-1856 |
gutted of engines and converted to a bark used as a storeship, and renamed Farallones, in 1863. Sold off in 1867. |
One crewman was the first US sailor to die in action in the Pacific Northwest |
SS Maurelle |
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Douglas Road, Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Lillooet Lake |
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SS Meg Merrilies |
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Mentor |
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George Newell |
Ship |
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US |
Bryant & Sturgis, Boston[3] |
Maritime Fur Trade |
1823 |
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Mercury |
see Gustavus III |
Cox |
brig |
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Britain |
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LaterGustavus III under Swedish flag.[2] |
SS Mexican |
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Mexicana |
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Cayetano Valdés y Flores |
goleta (schooner and brig) |
46 foot long (43 foot on the keel), 12-foot (3.7 m) beam, 33 "toneladas" burden, complement of 21 men |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy |
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Built 1791 in San Blas. Explores Vancouver Island 1792. |
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Sister ship of Sutil |
SS Milton Badger |
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Mount Royal |
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SB Johnson |
sternwheeler |
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Canada |
Hudson's Bay Company |
Built Albion Iron Works (VMD) Victoria |
1902-1907 |
Wrecked in Kitselas Canyon, six lives lost |
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SS Moyie |
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sternwwheeler |
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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 22, 1898. taken out of service April 27, 1957 |
berthed and restored at Kaslo, now a National historic site |
World's oldest surviving intact passenger sternwheeler |
SS Mumford |
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Collins Overland Telegraph |
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Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
SS Nanaimo Packet |
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SS Nancy |
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MV Nechacco |
Chilco |
John Bonser George Ritchie |
sternwheeler |
Gross 129 Registered 76 |
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Canada |
Fort George Lumber and Navigation Company |
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launched May 25, 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 |
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Ship, 10 guns, 26 men |
253 tons.[10] |
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Britain |
HBC |
Launched 1821, purchased by HBC 1833.[10] |
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Sold 1840.[10] |
HBC ship used for the PNW coast trade.[10] |
Nootka |
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John Meares |
snow[23] |
200 tons, crew of 50[11] |
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Britain |
Bengal Fur Company (John Henry Cox, Meares and others)[11] |
1786, sailed from Calcutta to Alaska. Wintered Prince William Sound, trapped in ice; 23 men die. May 1787, rescued by George Dixon of the Queen Charlotte. October 1787, arrived at Macau.[11] |
1786-1787 |
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Sailed without licences from the East India Company and South Sea Company. Consort of the Sea Otter under Captain Tipping; sometimes sailed together.[11] |
SS Norman Morrison |
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North West America |
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Robert Funter |
sloop or schooner |
About 40-50 tons |
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Britain |
John Meares and partners |
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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Other names |
Captain(s) |
Type |
Tons |
Draft |
Registry (flag) |
Owner(s) |
Events/locations |
Dates in BC |
Demise |
Comments |
SS Pacific |
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U.S. |
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collision with SS Orpheus off Cape Flattery |
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sunk, 300 or more lost, 2 survivors |
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Palerma |
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SS Pallas |
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SS Pedler |
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SS Petrel |
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Phoenix |
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Hugh Moore |
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sea otter trade |
1792-1794 |
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East India Company ship of Bombay |
SS Polly |
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SS Prince Albert |
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SS Prince George |
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Prince Lee Boo |
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Captain Gordon, Captain Sharp |
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Britain |
William Brown |
Maritime Fur Trader in 1790s |
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Part of the "Butterworth squadron", including Butterworth and Jackall. Served as tender to Butterworth |
Prince of Wales |
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James Colnett, James Johnstone |
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171 tons, complement of 35 men, carried 14 cannons |
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King George's Sound Company and joint company with John Meares and partners |
Maritime Fur Trade in the Pacific Northwest, late 1780s and early 1790s |
Launched about 1752 |
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Crew included Archibald Menzies |
SS Prince of Wales |
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Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Douglas Road, Lillooet Lake |
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SS Prince Rupert |
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8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) |
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Coastal passenger service, use as hospital ship |
1910-1956 |
decommissioned |
marooned on Ripple Rock in 1927 in near-disaster |
SS Prince William Henry |
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Princesa |
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Bodega y Quadra, Esteban José Martínez, Salvador Fidalgo, Jacinto Caamaño, others |
corvette |
189 tons burthen |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
1779, sailed to Alaska under Bodega y Quadra. 1788, sailed to Alaska under Martínez. 1792 used to occupy Neah Bay. |
late 18th and early 19th centuries |
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One of the primary warships of Spain's San Blas Naval Department. Heavily used for exploration of Pacific Northwest and supply of Alta California |
Princess Royal |
Princesa Real |
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Britain, Spain |
King George's Sound Company, Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
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Lloyd's Register, 1789, lists as a sloop of 60 tons (Old Measure), Class A1, Copper sheathed, single deck with beams, draft 8 ft. when laden, owners Etches & Co.[24] |
SS Princess Sophia |
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2,320 tons |
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Canadian Pacific |
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1918 |
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HMS Providence |
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1.William Bligh, 2.William R. Broughton |
sixth rate frigate |
420 tons |
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Britain |
Royal Navy |
second breadfruit expedition to Tahiti under Capt.William Bligh 1791-1793;
exploration and survey of East Asia under Ltd. William R. Broughton 1795-1797
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1791 - 1797 |
wrecked 1797 southwest of Okinawa |
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St. Roch |
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Henry Larsen |
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Canada |
RCMP |
First voyage through Northwest Passage |
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San Carlos |
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Gonzalo López de Haro, Salvador Fidalgo, Francisco de Eliza, others |
packet ship and storeship |
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72 foot long (keel), 22-foot (6.7 m) beam, 15-foot (4.6 m) draft, 16 four-pound cannons |
Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
Reached Unalaska in 1788, under Haro. |
late 18th to early 19th centuries |
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Carried a 28-foot (8.5 m) longboat. Also used in discovery of San Francisco Bay by Juan de Ayala. There were two packet ships named San Carlos operating out of San Blas, but not simultaneously. |
Santa Gertrudis la Magna |
Santa Gertrudis |
José María Narváez |
sloop or schooner |
About 40-50 tons |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
Was the North West America, captured during Nootka Crisis and renamed |
Built 1788, captured by Spain in 1789, rebuilt in 1790 as Santa Saturnina |
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Santa Saturnina |
La Orcasitas, Horcasitas |
José María Narváez, Juan Carrasco |
schooner |
32 tonales burden |
32 foot 10 inch length, 11-foot-10-inch (3.61 m) beam, 5-foot (1.5 m) draft, 4 three-pound cannons. Carried 8 two-man oars and 20 days supply of food, complement of 22 men. |
Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
Built in 1790 from the disassembled Santa Gertrudis |
1790-91 |
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36 feet long; beam of 12 feet; "drawing 5 feet of water"; equipped with 8 oars[24] |
Santa Saturnina |
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Alonso de Torres |
"large warship" |
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Spanish Navy |
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Transferred from Peru to San Blas and Pacific Northwest in 1792 |
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Crew in 1792 included naturalist José Moziño, who observed the Nuu-chah-nulth and recommended Spanish abandonment of Nootka Sound |
Santiago |
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Juan Pérez, Bruno de Heceta, Bodega y Quadra |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
1774, under Pérez, sailed to Pacific Northwest; 1775, under Heceta, found mouth of Columbia River |
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USS Saranac |
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sloop of war (sail and sidewheel) |
1463 |
depth of hold 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m); draft 17 ft 4 in (max.) |
United States |
US Navy |
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first steam vessel to fall prey to Ripple Rock, June 18, 1875 |
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SS Scotia |
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E. W. Spencer (1899); John McDonald (1911) |
stern-wheeler, two 7½ʺ x 20ʺ cyl. |
214 (100, 1898–1901) |
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Canada 107829 |
White Pass & Yukon Route (John Irving Nav. Co., 1898 only) |
Operated on Atlin Lake, 1898-1917. |
1898-1967 |
Demolished by fire, 1967. |
Built by John Irving Navigation Co. |
SS Sea Bird |
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namesake of Sea Bird Island near Agassiz |
Sea Otter |
Harmon[25] |
James Hanna[11] |
brig |
60 tons, crew of 30[11] |
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Britain |
John Henry Cox and "friends connected with the East India Company[11] |
Conducted the first purely commercial Maritime Fur Trade voyage between the Pacific Northwest and China; first British ship to visit the Northwest Coast since Captain Cook.[11] |
1785 |
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Hanna's two voyages were on different ships but both were named Sea Otter.[11] |
Sea Otter (II) |
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James Hanna[11] |
snow[25] |
120 tons,[11] or 100 tons.[25] |
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Britain |
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Under Hanna, sailed from Macau to Nootka Sound and explored Queen Charlotte Sound and Clayoquot Sound; returned to China in early 1787.[11] |
1786-1787 |
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Hanna's two voyages were on different ships but both were named Sea Otter.[11] |
Sea Otter (III) |
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William Tipping |
snow[25] |
100 tons[11] |
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Britain |
Bengal Fur Company (John Henry Cox, Meares and others)[11] |
Sailed from Calcutta, March 1786, surveyed coast of Japan, then went to Northwest Coast.[11] |
1786 |
Foundered during a storm in the Gulf of Alaska, 1786.[11] |
Consort of Nootka under Meares; sometimes sailed together.[11] Not the same vessel as either Sea Otter previously under Hanna.[26] |
SS Sierra Nevada |
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SS Sir James Douglas |
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Skeena |
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Magar 1909-1911 Charles Seymour 1914-1925 |
sternwheeler |
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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 |
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Ausbury Insley and SR Smith |
sternwheeler |
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Canada |
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Took 16 days to navigate 16 miles (26 km) of Fraser River from Hells Gate Canyon to Boston Bar |
Launched on May 4, 1882, at Spuzzum |
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First sternwheeler to arrive in Lytton |
Sonora |
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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, Juan Manuel de Ayala (briefly) |
schooner |
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37 feet (11 m) in length. |
Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
1775, sailed to Alaska |
1775 |
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Crew complement of 16. |
SS Sophia |
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U.S. |
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Inside Passage & passenger disaster during Klondike Gold Rush |
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sunk in Lynn Canal |
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Sultan |
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Reynolds |
Ship |
274 tons |
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U.S. |
Boardman & Pope, Boston |
Maritime Fur Trade |
1816 |
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1816 sailing schedule: Boston, Sitka, California, Columbia River, Northwest Coast, Hawaii, Marquesas, Hawaii, Canton.[3] |
Sumatra |
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SS Surprise (I) |
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SS Surprise (II) |
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SS Susan Sturges |
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Sutil |
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Dionisio Alcalá Galiano |
goleta (brig) |
46 foot long (43 foot on the keel), 12-foot (3.7 m) beam, 33 "toneladas" burden, complement of 20 men |
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Spain |
Spanish Navy Dept. of San Blas |
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Built 1791 in San Blas |
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Sister ship of Mexicana |
SS Sutil |
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SS Swiss Boy |
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