Beaver (steamship)

Wooden side wheeler steamer 109 tons, 100 feet 9 inches x 20 feet by 11 feet depth of hold. Two side lever engines each 35 n.h.p. Launced May 2, 1835 by Green, Wigrams, and Green, Blackwall, England. Arrived at Fort Vancouver April 10, 1836. Sold by the Hudson's Bay Company to Harry Saunders et al in 1874. Wrecked at Prospect Point, Burrard Inlet, July 26, 1888. Norman R. Hacking and W. Kaye Lamb. The Princess Story a century and a half of w, Norman R. The Princess Story. Vancouver: Mitchell, 1974, p. 336. SS Beaver, first steamship in the Northwest,' The Sea Chest. X (December, 1976), p. 53. Arthur A. Cook, The Beaver Centennial, New Washington Historian. I (May, 1936), p. 7-8. First steamer in the Pacific, TB p. 14. Hunt, H.H. Washington West of the Cascades, I, p. 90. The wreck of the Beaver. This famous old vessel was the first steamer on the Pacific Coast. She was brought around The Horn in 1835. Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., 14, 18. North Pacific History Company. Histor

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