Ship Details

Governor Douglas

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Registry #1 (Vancouver Island Registry) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1858 Governor Douglas Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1858 Place Victoria Area Country Vancouver Island (Crown Colony)
 
Designer James W. Trahey Measurement (imp) 144.0' x 26.0' x 4.0'
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine steam engine (1858) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Tom Wright (1859); Captain W.I. Waitt; Captain William Moore
 
Owner(s)
In 1858 she was owned by Alexander Sinclair Murray and managed by Commodore Irving as the Victoria Steam Navigation Co., Victoria VI. In 1859 he bought out Murray (who went to Australia).
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1864-00-00
 
Named Features Captain Murray (1858);
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Miss Agnes Douglas was her sponsor and this vessel was launched on October 30, 1858. This vessel was stuck on the ways at her launch. This vessel made her maiden voyage in January 1859. Alexander Murray (her original owner) went on to make maritime history on the Murray River in Australia.
 
References
Wright, E.W. (ed.) 1967 Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest; Affleck, Edward L. (2000); 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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