Ship Details

Isabel (II)

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Registry #1 040386 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1866 Isabel (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1866 Place Victoria Area Country Vancouver Island (Crown Colony)
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 142.4' x 22.6' x 9.1'
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 233 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 146.56 Type 2 Barge
Engine 58.8nhp oscilating condensing steam engine (42" x 48") Engine Manufacture Blackwood Gordon, Port Glasgow UK
Repower Repowered with a 158.92hp steam engine (1893) Propulsion Sidewheeler
Rebuilds In 1875 she was rebuilt to 142.4' x 22.6' x 9.1'. In 1888 she was rebuilt and had new boilers installed. In 1893 she was rebuilt to 139.4' (255.36rt). In 1897 her engines were removed and converted to a barge for coal/coke lighterage 194.27gt/rt. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Chambers (1866); Captain Pamphlet (1868); Captain Devereaux (1868); Captain Daniel Morrison (1872); Captain Thomas Pamphlet (1872); Captain Ramsey (1872); Captain Lanborne (1872); Captain F. Revely (1888); Captain James P. Bendrodt; Captain James E. Butler; Captain William D. Owen;
 
Owner(s)
In 1866 she was owned by Captain Edward Stamp (Alberni Sawmill). In 1870 she was owned by the Starr brothers on Puget Sound service to Port Townsend. Later she served in Victoria to Nanaimo service and later as a towboat. In 1873-1874 she was owned by William Richardson, a merchant in San Francisco CA USA. In 1874 she was owned by Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. In 1885 she was owned by Peter D. Forbes. In 1885 she was owned by Henry J. Macdonald, Portland OR USA. In 1888-1889 she was owned by Robert Dunsmuir for service between Victoria, Nanaimo and Comox. In 1889 she was owned by Joan O. Dunsmuir, Victoria BC Canada. In 1889-1905 she was owned by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Co. Ltd., Victoria BC Canada. In 1898 she was still listed in the Canada List of Shipping. In 1901 she was owned by William Richardson, San Francisco CA USA. In 1901-1914 she was owned by the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway Co. Ltd., Victoria BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was launched at Victoria on July 28, 1866. This vessel was used to tow logs and sailing vessels through First Narrows into Burrard Inlet. This vessel was registered on July 12, 1867 at Victoria. This vessel was the first tugboat built in what would become British Columbia. In 1893 this vessel was still working on the Fraser River. In 1894 this vessel was abandoned in Esquimalt BC, her machinery removed - her hull turned into a barge.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; (1898); Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1967); Affleck, Edward L. (2000); McKee, William C. (1978); Morris, Rob and Leonard McCann. (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press; Hacking, Norman R. Steamboat Days 1870-1883. In British Columbia Historical Quarterly April 1947; Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; LAC RG12, A1, Vol 414 Shipping Registers Victoria BC; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c3185/142?r=0&s=5 ;
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