Ship Details

Glad Tidings

Vessel image

Photo Credit: Rev. Thomas Crosby

 
 
Registry #1 088371 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1884 Glad Tidings Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1884 Place New Westminster Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 67.0' x 13.5' x 8.5'
Builder Oliver, William Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 43 Type 1 Mission Boat
Registered Tonnage 27 Type 2
Engine steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds re-built in 1892 to 67' x 13.5' x 8.5' Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters The Revered Thomas Crosby; Captain William Oliver.
 
Owner(s)
In 1884 as a mission boat she was built at New Westminster BC for the Methodist Church. Thomas Crosby was the Master and William Oliver was the engineer, and later the Master. In 1884-1903 she was owned by the Methodist Church, Toronto ON.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1903-01-24
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was a schooner-rigged steam vessel used by William Oliver and Thomas Crosby as a mission vessel out of Port Simpson 1884-1903. Her steam engines were installed in Victoria BC. On January 20, 1903 this vessel was wrecked in a gale at Shushartie Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound while being towed by the Barbara Boscowitz.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; (1898); Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973): Scott, R.C. (1947); Howard, Oliver R. (1984); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Crosby, Rev. Thomas (1914) Up and Down the North Pacific coast By Canoe and Mission Ship. The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church.
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