Ship Details

Strathcona (I)

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Registry #1 107146 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1898 Strathcona (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1898 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer J. Macfarlane, B.C. Iron Works Measurement (imp) 142.4' x 30.4' x 4.0'
Builder B.C. Iron Works Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 596.28 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage 375.66 Type 2
Engine 2- high pressure horizontal steam engines Engine Manufacture B.C. Iron Works
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Rebuilt in 1898 Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Frank Odin (1898); Captain Thomas Riley (1902);
 
Owner(s)
In 1898-1901 she was owned by the Hudsons Bay Company, London UK. In 1901-1902 she was owned by Charles Spratt, Victoria BC. She was sold to Sidney & Nanaimo Transportation Co. In 1910 she was owned by William A. Rannie et al., Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1909-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was a sister ship of the Caledonia (III). This vessel served on the Stikine River. this steamer helped start the Sidney and Nanaimo ferry route on June 24, 1902. this service was called the Sidney and Nanaimo Transportation Company. The Strathcona had worked for three months of that year before this vesselblew a cylinder on August 19, 1902. The ship was unable to be repaired, so this vessel was retired from S&NT immediately and replaced. Afterwards this vesselworked on Howe Sound. On November 17, 1909 this vessel was wrecked at Page's Landing BC by striking a snag. In 1910 this vessel was raised with pontoons and floated to New Westminster, her hull abandoned. (The Register of Shipping says this vessel was broken up.)
 
References
Canada List of Shipping (1898); Newell, G. (1966); Affleck, Edward L. (2000); https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories/pdf/strathcona.pdf ;
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