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Warren, James Douglas

1837–

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(He was qualified as a Master Mariner.) In 1864 he traded on the coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands and along the coast of British Columbia in the Thornton. While Master of the Thornton on 13/06/1868 she became becalmed off Storm Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands. The Captain and the crew of five, using Henry repeating rifles, killed fifteen of the natives and wounded four durng the repulse of the attack who were firing buckshot and slugs.

He was wounded in the attack.

In 1877 he was the Master of the HBC vessel Beaver. A pioneer in sealing he was the first to send out a steam vessel. His first schooner was called the Kate.

He owned the Thornton and in 1882 the Grace.

He was hard hit, financially, by the seizures of 1886 and 1887 and was crippled financially.

He operated the steamer Barbara Boscowitz on the northern route from Victoria.

In 1880 he was a Director of the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Co.

In 1899 he was a principal in the Boscowitz Steamship Co. Ltd.

所有/設計した船舶

Leviathan (#64131); Thornton (#064133);

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参考文献

  • Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
  • Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
  • Delgado, James P. (1993)
  • Nicholson, George (1965)
  • Vessels on the Registry of the Dominion of Canada in British Columbia (1874)
  • Gregson, Harry (1970)
  • Marc, Jacques (2009)

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