Geschichte
This freighter, collier was built in 1891 by J. McArthur & Co. in Glasgow, Scotland.
Historische Notizen
This vessel was assembled on ways at Stanley Park, Vancouver BC Canada. This vessel was employed as a collier from Nanaimo towing booms and hauling stone for the construction of the Provincial Legislature building. Capilano first British ship to the Klondyke. Speed 9 knots, 25 deck passengers. Capilano left for the Klondyke with 69 head of cattle and 20 horses sent up by Messr Rattenbury and company. On October 1, 1915 this vessel sank off Harwood Island BC in Georgia Strait. This vessel had hit a rock but the damage was thought to have been minor. Some cargo was discharged at Vananda and then this vesselput to sea again when this vessel was near Mittlenach Island it was noticed that this vessel was taking on water. The crew took to boats and rowed to Powell River.
Eigentümer & Kapitäne
In 1898-1911 she was owned by G.T. Legg, Vancouver BC Canada.
In 1914 she was owned by Union Steamship Co. of British Columbia Ltd., Victoria BC Canada.
Kapitäne
Captain Bernard Leitch Johnson; Captain John J. Park (1910);
Remotisierung
In 1891 she was assembled at Union shipyard, Coal Harbour, Vancouver BC by Henry Darling. Shipped "knocked down" from Glasgow to Vancouver and erected on shipways built on beach below present site of Stanley Park in Vancouver.
Referenzen
- Canada List of Shipping (1898)
- Sessional Papers (Vol. 14) (3rd Session of the 11th Parliament of the Dominion of Canada (1911)
- Newell, G. (1966)
- List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document)
- Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast
- Vancouver Daily World (Vancouver BC) Monday, October 4, 1915 page 12
