Historia
This freighter was built in 1895 by J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd. in North Sands, Sunderland.
Notas históricas
This vessel was registered in Liverpool UK. This vessel left Victoria BC in November 1910 bound for Salina Cruz. This vessel disappeared in November 1910 at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In December 1910 wreckage washed ashore at Cape Scott. In November 1911 a lifebuoy was recovered. Christopher James Cole (British Columbia Facebook Group 23/06/2016) found a newspaper account at the time that states "Message in a bottle found in May of 1911on the shore of Sooke Bay and forwarded to the Daily Colonist by William Muir purported to be from the lost steamer St. Denis, it reads: "Steamer St. Denis. Very rough weather. Boat labouring very heavily and fear foundering. Getting rougher and rougher." St Denis was loaded with coal from Comox and headed for Salina Cruz when this vessel was last seen passing Tatoosh into a 70 mph gale on November 21 1910."
Propietarios y capitanes
In 1895 she was owned by Seine & Mersey Steam Ship Co. Ltd. (Christian & Edwards), Liverpool UK.
In 1895-1898 she was owned by St. Denis Steam Ship Co. Ltd. (W.P. Christian). Liverpool UK.
In 1898-1909 she was owned by the Lower California Development Co. Ltd., Ensenada Mexico.
In 1909-1910 she was owned by Mexican Lands & Colonisations Ltd. (F. Iveson), Liverpool UK.
Capitanes
Captain Bernard Leitch Johnson;
Significado del nombre
Luis Mena Vado (c. 1865 – 20 May 1928) was the President of Nicaragua from 27 to 30 August 1910, after the fall of the government of General José Santos Zelaya. He later became acting President in rebellion. Mena was a conservative, part of the coalition government that also included liberal Juan Jose Estrada and conservatives Emiliano Chamorro and Adolfo Diaz. He was one of the leaders along with Benjamin Zeledon and Marcelo Castañeda On 23 September, General Mena, then the top leader of the revolutionaries, surrendered without a fight to the high command of the marines in the city of Granada and was sent into exile in Panama.
Referencias
- Nicholson, George (1962)
- Victoria Daily Colonist 27/11/1911
- Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast
- www.sunderlandships.com ↗ (website viewed 14/02/2023)
- en.wikipedia.org ↗ (website viewed 09/01/2024)
