Chelohsin

In 1911 this vessel was completed at Belfast. Surface condensing, boilers built by Maccoll & Pollock Ltd., Sunderland UK. On August 20, 1915 two prospectors returning from a trip up the coast in a small canoe were caught in a tidal rip and capsized.

They clung to the overturned canoe for several minutes with no hope of rescue when Samuel E. West started swimming ashore which took him more than an hour.

He secured a rope and was swimming back out to his stranded friend when the Chelhosin passed close by. Her backwash created such a swell that Francis Pike of Courtenay was washed off the canoe and drowned. On February 5, 1935 the Chelhosin collided with the Princess Charlotte off Point Atkinson.

They sighted each other through dense fof in time to avert a major disaster by altering course and diminishing the shock of the collision. Neither vessel took on water and both were able to enter the harbour under their own power. On November 7, 1949 in a thick fog while inbound this vessel ran aground on Siwash Rock Vancouver BC refloated. Nineteen people were injured and all 53 were rowed ashore. The radar operator on the Lions Gate Bridge tried to warn the vessel several times by radio of the danger of her course but to no avail. The Chelhosin carried both radio and radar at the time. The hull was temporarily patched and this vessel was towed into the harbour.

In 1951 this vessel was broken up at San Francisco CA USA.