Ship Details
Princess Beatrice Photo Credit: Vancouver Public Library VPL13247

 

Registry #1	116405 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1903	Princess Beatrice	Name 6
Name 2			Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1903	Place	Esquimalt	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	193.3' x 37.3' x 15.0'
Builder	B.C. Marine Railway Co., Esquimalt BC	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Steel	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	1290	Type 1	Passenger Vessel
Registered Tonnage	1272	Type 2	Barge
Engine	150nhp triple expansion 3-cylinder steam engine	Engine Manufacture	Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley Scotland UK
Repower	Non-powered	Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds	In 1929 she was rebuilt as a cannery barge.	Call Sign	VFC
Pendant  #		Masters	Captain W. Boyce (1903); Captain Thomas Rippon; Captain Hughes; Captain William H. Whiteley;

 

Owner(s)
In 1903 she was owned by the British Columbia Marine Railway Co. In 1904-1928 she was owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Services. In 1928 she was sold to B.L. Johnson & Co. for scrapping.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1930-00-00

 

Named Features	Beatrice Shoal (BC)
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes

On September 10, 1903 this vessel was sponsored by Mrs. F. Bullen (wife of the owner of the Esquimalt Marine Railway Co.) On February 9, 1921 this vessel was running north when at 3:00 am this vesselran on rocks at Steep Island in Sabine Channel near Bull Passage. The Princess Patricia was sent to pick up the passengers. In 1904 this vessel was put on Victoria - Seattle service. In 1928 this vessel was stripped and sunk by Charlie Klein as a breakwater at Mouat Bay (Texada Island) BC. Nyvall and Edlund buried her deeper in the breakwater.

 

References
Musk, George (1981); Canada List of Shipping; Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973); Heather Harbord (2011); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; The Victoria Daily Times (Victoria BC) Friday February 10, 1921 page 8;
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