Ship Details

B.X.

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Registry #1 126516 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1910 B.X. Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1910 Place Soda Creek Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 127.5' x 28.5' x 5.1'
Builder Watson, Alexander (Jr.) Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 513 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage 323 Type 2
Engine 2-27nhp horizontal compound steam engine (1910) Engine Manufacture Marine Iron Works, Chicago IL USA
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Owen Forrester Browne (1910)
 
Owner(s)
In 1910-1931 she was owned by the B.C. Express Co., Ashcroft BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1919-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was launched May 13, 1910. In 1919 this vessel was damaged at Woodpecker, below Fort George Canyon, salvaged and towed to South Fort George where this vessel was abandoned and dismantled. This vessel remained in the shipping registry at least as late as 1931.
 
References
Sessional Papers (Vol. 14) (3rd Session of the 11th Parliament of the Dominion of Canada (1911); Canada List of Shipping; Affleck, Edward L. (2000)
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