Ship Details

Alexandra (I)

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Registry #1 (Vancouver Island Registry) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1863 Alexandra (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1863 Place Victoria Area Country Vancouver Island
 
Designer James Trahey Measurement (imp) 163.8' x 29.6' x 8.5'
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 469 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 150hp 21.25'' x 72" steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Coffin; Captain Doane; Captain Insley; Captain Swanson.
 
Owner(s)
In 1863-1864 she was owned by Captain William Moore, Victoria, Vancouver Island. Moore soon went bankrupt. She was sold to T. Pritchard. In 1869 her machinery was removed by the Hudson's Bay Co. and later (in 1874) sold to Captain William Buchanan, Portland OR USA for the Ocklahama.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1869-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Norman R. Hacking states that "this vessel is wrongly listed in Lewis & Dryden as the Alexandria." In 1869 this vessel was broken up. In 1864 this vessel was in service between Victoria and the Fraser River. In 1865 this vessel collided with and sank the Fidelator off Clover Point, Victoria BC. Broken Up in 1869.
 
References
Affleck, Edward L. (2000); Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1967); 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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