Biographical Data
Bendrodt, James Peter Photo Credit: Unknown

 

Title	Captain (MM)
Official Number

 

Birth	00/00/1859	Death	14/03/1903
Place	(nk)	Place	Victoria
Area	(nk)	Area	BC
Country	Denmark	Country	Canada

 

Titles
Honours
Awards
Qualifications

 

Biography

He was apprenticed as a Boy. He arrived in British Columbia and served as the Mate in the schooner Kate (Victoria to Fort Simpson). (He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) He was Second Mate on the brig Hazard for a voyage in 1879 to Australia. He joined the HBC as mate on the steamers Otter and Princess Louise to 1885 when he joined the Alexander as Mate. He served in vessels of the Department of Marine & Fisheries. He took command of the Isabel in 1887 and later in the Alexander and Emily. In 1888 he married Emily D. Swanson. He was appointed as a Pilot in the Nanaimo District in November 1890. (He was retired in 1903.)

 

Military Service

 

Vessels Owned	D.W. Gordon (part owner) (pilot boat); Dawadeena (part owner) (pilot boat);
Aircraft Flown
Named Features

 

Anecdotes
In 1903 he was the Pilot of the steamer Mineola when she went aground in Baynes Sound (she was later refloated).

 

References
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967); Wilson, Hill (2005);
Last update
2013-03-04 00:00:00

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