Historia
This passenger vessel was built in 1858 by Farnham, Samuel in Portland, Oregon Territory.
Notas históricas
This vessel was launched November 27, 1858. This vessel carried the first large detachment of Royal Engineers from Esquimalt to Sapperton in 1858. This vessel was the first vessel inspected in Victoria after the appointment of a steamship inspector.
In 1859 this vessel was on the Victoria-Olympia run.
In 1860 this vessel was involved in a fugitive slave controversy when Charles Mitchell, then a slave, escaped from his Washington owner and made his way on the vessel to Victoria. This vessel had a monopoly in 1866 of the traffic between Victoria and Olympia.
In 1870 this vessel was replaced by the Olympia and used as a spare boat until 1877.
In 1877 this vessel made several trips to Cassiar. At Comox BC this vessel went out of control and rammed the ship Glory of the Seas. This vessel was laid up 1877-1882.
In 1882 this vessel sank at a wharf in Seattle WA.
In 1882 this vessel was raised and overhauled by Captain Tom Wright. This vessel was placed on the New Westminster to Seattle run.
In 1884 this vessel was in competition with the Olympia on the Victoria run.
In 1885 this vessel was seized by Collector Beecher in Port Townsend for carrying illegal Chinese immigrants. This vessel was acquitted of the charges.
In 1897 this vessel sailed to Alaska for the Klondike Gold Rush - this vessel sailed without a compass. On March 1, 1898 this vessel was stripped and abandoned at Unalaska Alaska.
Propietarios y capitanes
In 1857 she was owned by the Columbia River Steam Navigation Co.
In 1859 she was owned by John T. Wright and the Bradford Bros., Olympia WA USA.
In 1885c she was owned by Captain J.W. Tarte, Victoria BC Canada.
She was owned by the Washington Steamboat Co.
She was owned by the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co. and laid up in the Snohomish River.
In 1884 she was owned by San Francisco CA USA interests.
In 1897-1898 she was owned by the Northwestern Steamship Co., managed by Captain D.B. Jackson.
Capitanes
Captain Fleming (1860); Captain Duncan B. Finch (1866); Captain J.G. Hustler; Captain Dan Harrison (1877); Captain Tom Wright (1882); Captain D.B. Finch; Captain J. Finch; Captain Clancy; Captain McIntish; Captain Daniel Morrison; Captai J.W. Tarte; Captain Waitt; Captain Wallace; Captain Jackson; Captain Tom Powers (1897)
Reconstrucciones
In 1897 she was rebuilt at the Moran Shipyard, Seattle WA USA for Alaska service.
Referencias
- Newell, Gordon (Ed.) (1966)
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1967)
- Newell, G. (1966)
- Howay, F.W., W.N. Sage and H.F. Angus (1942)
- Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast
- The British Colonist (Victoria VI) Wednesday September 26, 1860
- Gibbs, Jim (1986) Peril At Sea
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd. Atglen PA USA
