Ship Details
Strathcona (I) Photo Credit: Unknown

 

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 Canada. She was sold to Sidney & Nanaimo Transportation Co. In 1910 she was owned by William A. Rannie et al., Vancouver BC Canada.

 

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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