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Ships
- Miscellaneous
#2453
Date:
1899
Source: Joan Lougheed, donor
Photographer:
Information:
Written on the back of the original photograph was, "Deck on S.S.
Alpha en route to Dawson Alaska." No. 340, S.S. "Alpha" was an
iron screw steamer built in 1863 by Barclay Curle of Glasgow for
the Cunard Line's Halifax - West Indies service. She was purchased
by Pickford and Black of Halifax and continued in the West Indies
trade until sent to Vancouver in 1898 to participate in the lucrative
gold rush shipping boom. This Canadian steamer reimbursed her
owners several times over for her purchase price in Alaska trade
between 1898-1900. The U.S. authorities barred her from Alaska
trade. She was dispatched to Japan with a load of salted fish
in the hopes of selling her there. But she was considered unseaworthy
and her owners had difficulty shipping or keeping a crew for the
trans-Pacific voyage. The crew deserted at Victoria and had to
be replaced. The steamer was dispatched on December 16,1900. She
encountered heavy weather in the Strait of Georgia, refused to
obey her helm while in the "Inside Passage" to Union Bay coaling
station and piled up on the rocks below the lighthouse on Yellow
Island off the Vancouver Island coast. Despite rescue efforts
she went down with her captain, her ship's manager, and seven
other crew members.
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Shipbuilding
- Miscellaneous
#2454
Date:
1899
Source: Joan Lougheed, donor
Photographer: Jones, P. (Esquimalt, B.C.)
Information:
No. 340, S.S. "Alpha" was an iron screw steamer built in 1863
by Barclay Curle of Glasgow for the Cunard Line's Halifax - West
Indies service. She was purchased by Pickford and Black of Halifax
and continued in the West Indies trade until sent to Vancouver
in 1898 to participate in the lucrative gold rush shipping boom.
This Canadian steamer reimbursed her owners several times over
for her purchase price in Alaska trade between 1898-1900. The
U.S. authorities barred her from Alaska trade. She was dispatched
to Japan with a load of salted fish in the hopes of selling her
there. But she was considered unseaworthy and her owners had difficulty
shipping or keeping a crew for the trans-Pacific voyage. The crew
deserted at Victoria and had to be replaced. The steamer was dispatched
on December 16,1900. She encountered heavy weather in the Strait
of Georgia, refused to obey her helm while in the "Inside Passage"
to Union Bay coaling station and piled up on the rocks below the
lighthouse on Yellow Island off the Vancouver Island coast. Despite
rescue efforts she went down with her captain, her ship's manager,
and seven other crew members.
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Ships
- Sailing
#1930
Date:
c. 1907
Source: Joe Plaskett, donor
Photographer:
Information:
This photograph could have been taken anytime between 1900 - 1915.
The "Alta" was a steel four-masted barkentine. It was 1385 tons
and was built in Port Glasgow in 1900 for operation by a San Francisco
owner under the Chilean flag. It was brought under U.S. registry
in 1915. On Feb. 20, 1915, she went missing with all hands, after
leaving San Pedro for Bellingham.
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Shipbuilding
- Star Shipyard
#908
Date:
[N.D.] c. 1915
Source: NWM
Photographer:
Information:
The tug "Clive" in for repairs. This picture is in Hellen C. Pullem's
, "Queensborough: Part I", p. 249, captioned "Part of Star Shipyards,
c. 1915, with Edward Mercer in centre forefront with long white
sleeves." The following information is from Gordon Mercer: On
deck are - Joe Holland (later Captain); "Shorty McLoughlin; ____
Standing on cradle is - Saul Butter, John Mugford. On staging
area are - Jacob Earle, William Mercer - partners of Star Shipyard
Co., ____, Peter Smith, one of the founders of Westminster Tug
Boat Co. This tug pumped sand from the River to scows for Gilley
Bros. Of New Westminster.
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