Ship Details
Quadra (I) Photo Credit: Unknown

 

Registry #1	096899 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1891	Quadra (C.G.S.)	Name 6
Name 2	1917	Quadra (I)	Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1891	Place	Paisley	Area	Scotland	Country	UK

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	174.5' x 31.1' x 13.6'
Builder	Fleming & Ferguson	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Steel	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	683	Type 1	Lighthouse Tender
Registered Tonnage	436	Type 2
Engine	120hp (11kts) quadruple expansion 4 cylinder engines	Engine Manufacture	Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley Scotland
Repower		Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #		Masters	Captain James Gaudin; Captain John T. Walbran 1898; Captain Charles Hackett 1906; Captain James Gaudin (Relief Skipper 1892)

 

Owner(s)

In 1891-1917 she was owned by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa ON Canada. In 1917 she was owned by Britannia Mines, Britannia Beach BC Canada. In 1918-1921 she was owned by Quadra Steamship Co. Ltd., Britannia Beach BC Canada. In 1924 she was owned by Canadian Mexican Shipping Co. Ltd, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1927 she was owned by the Canadian Mexican Shipping Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1924-00-00

 

Named Features	Quadra Rocks (BC)
Significance of Name	She was named for Captain Bodega y Quadra.

 

Anecdotes

This vessel came to British Columbia via the Strait of Magellan under Captain Walbran having left Greenock 15/10/1891 and arrived at Esquimalt 05/01/1892. In 1892 this vessel struck the Quadra Rocks in the Houston Stewart Channel Queen Charlotte Islands while on a cruise to the Bering Sea in support of the sealing industry under relief skipper James Gaudin. In 1897 this vessel rescued two survivors of the Cleveland near Clayoquot Sound. In 1906 this vessel rescued the survivors of the bark Colima wrecked at Cape Beale BC. In 1907 this vessel was fitted with wireless equipment. On February 26, 1917 this vessel was in a collision with the Charmer on a foggy day at the entrance to Nanaimo Harbour,The Quadra was towed to shallow water where this vessel sank with only a portion of her superstructure and rigging left visible at high tide. The wreck was sold to the Britannia Mine Co. who salvaged her for use in the Howe Sound - Tacoma ore trade. On September 24, 1924 this vessel sailed from Vancouver with 12,000 cases of liquor and was seized by the USCGC Shawnee. (Miles, Fraser (1992)). In 1924 this vessel was broken up following her arrest by the US Coast Guard cutter Shawnee.

 

References
Canada List of Shipping (1918); Walbran, Captain John T. (1909); Appleton, Thomas E. (1970); Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973); Miles, Fraser (1992);
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