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Caledonia (I)

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Registry #1 (Vancouver Island Registry) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1858 Caledonia (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1858 Place Victoria Area Country Vancouver Island
 
Designer James W. Trahey Measurement (imp) ? x ? x ?
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 70hp 20" x 30" steam oscillating engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sidewheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain James Frain (1858)
 
Owner(s)
In 1858-1859 she was owned by Faulkner, Bell & Co., Victoria VI.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1865-11-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Norman R. Hacking states that "she is wrongly listed in Lewis & Dryden as the New Caledonia." this vessel was launched at the Songhees Indian Village on Victoria Harbour on September 8, 1858. In 1858 this vessel was based at Victoria, Vancouver Island. this vessel was too small to be profitable. this vessel suffered two boiler explosions. Her boiler exploded November 2, 1859 and the wreck drifted from Plumper Pass to Sucia Island WA where this vessel was salvaged by the Eliza Anderson. Her fireman and five others were killed. this vessel was repaired. In November 1865 this vessel was wrecked on the Skeena River.
 
References
Edward L. (2000); Rogers, A.C. (Jr.) Shipwreck Chart No. 3; Hacking, Norman R. Steamboating on the fraser in the Sixties (in British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. X No.1 January 1946);
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