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Harris, Charles Israel

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Title Captain (MM)
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Birth 28/09/1867 Death 03/02/1969
Place Gabarus Place Victoria
Area NS Area BC
Country Canada Country Canada
 
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Biography
He went to sea at the age of nine as a cabin boy in Nova Scotia. He served in the schooners Eastern Tripper and James Ryan. He was one of the crew of the Eastern Clipper wrecked in Island Harbour in 1882. He joined the schooner Trial which was wrecked at Whitehead. In 1886 he came around Cape Horn as Second Mate in the schooner Sapphire. On arrival he remained ashore for some years and then entered the sealing trade in the Sapphire. In 1887. He was qualified as a Master Mariner (Passenger Coastal & Fore-and-Aft Rigged Sail) #2617. He was the Master of the Salvor. In 1892 he was in the Mary Taylor. In 1893 he took the May Belle to the Japan coast. In 1894 he took the sealing schooner E.B. Marvin to the Japan coast. In 1920 he joined the British Columbia Coast Pilots until his reirement in 1937. In 1922 he piloted HMS Hood into Victoria. (He was retired in 1937).
 
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Vessels Owned May Belle (schooner); Mary Taylor (schooner);
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References
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967); Goudie, Ed & R.E. Johns (1986); Wilson, Hill (2005);
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