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Onward (I)

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Registry #1 040392 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
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Name 1 1865 Onward (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1865 Place Victoria Area Country British Columbia (Crown Colony)
 
Designer James Trahey Measurement (imp) 120.5' x 21.3' x 7.4'
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 283 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage 220 Type 2 Barge
Engine 90hp 14" x 54" steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds In 1876 rebuilt as a barge. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1865 she was owned by Captain William Irving, New Westminster BC Canada. In 1865 she was owned by the Pioneer Line. In 1865 she was chartered to the Cowlitz Coal Mining Co. to carry supplies from Victoria, Vancouver Island to the miners at Cowgitz in the Queen Charlotte Islands. She was registered in Canada on March 02, 1871. In 1873-1896 she was owned by William Irving, New Westminster BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1876-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel had 21 staterooms. This vessel was in Fraser River service in 1865. In 1876 this vessel was broken up with her engines going to the Reliance.
 
References
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1967); Affleck, Edward L. (2000); Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973); Port of Victoria Register Book; List of Vessels on the Registry Books of the Dominion of Canada on the 31st Day of December, 1874 Ottawa ON 1875; 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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