| Black Douglas | The Black Douglas, 371 tons, 133 feet in length, was built by the Bath Iron Works, Maine, in 1930 and was formerly owned by the Explorers & Investigators Co. of New Jersey. En route to Northwest waters in charge of Capt. Walter K. E. Johanson she was fired on by a Japanese submarine but escaped by skillful maneuvering and by blacking out. After firing a torpedo the submarine surfaced and opened fire with deck guns, also unsuccessfully. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1942, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 508. |
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| Douglas Dearborn (schooner) | January 4, 1890 Schooner en route San Francisco to Puget Sound. Discovered bottom-up off the Columbia bar. All hands lost. Don Marshall, Missing at Sea, Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binford and Mort, 1984, p. 183-186. |
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| Douglas Dearborn (schooner) | American schooner, 1,024 tons, was discovered bottom up several miles off the mouth of the Columbia River January 4, 1890. No trace of her crew has ever been found'The vessel's hull was salvaged and rebuilt.James Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1950, p. 153-190. |
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| Douglas Dearborn (schooner) | Found bottom up several miles off the mouth of the Columbia River January 4, 1890. No trace of the crew. Hull was salvaged and rebuilt. Gibbs, Pacific Graveyard, p. 161. |
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| Douglas Dearborn (schooner) | The schooner Douglas Dearborn, from San Francisco for Puget Sound, was found floating bottom up off the Columbia bar January 4th, and all of her crew are supposed to have drowned. E. W. Wright, Finest Steamers in the Northwest Appear on Puget Sound Waters, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961 [This book was written in 1895 and events referred to in this chapter generally took place in 1889., p.381. |
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| Governor Douglas (steamer) | Frederic W. Howay. Voyages of the Columbia 1787-1793, p. 43, 120. |
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| Governor Douglas (steamer) | In British Columbia the first steamer built in the province for inland navigation commenced regular trips between Victoria and Fraser River points. This vessel, the Governor Douglas, was launched the previous year, but did not make her trial trip until January, 1859. She was followed in May by the steamer Colonel Moody, and later by the Henrietta, the latter boat having been set afloat in October and run under sail until the arrival of her machinery. The Governor Douglas was the first steamboat venture in British Columbia of that pioneer of the Columbia and Willamette, Alexander Sinclair Murray, and was also the craft which tempted another hero of early navigation in Oregon, Capt. William Irving, to sail under the British flag, where he and his son, Commodore John Irving, afterward made fame and fortune. The Douglas was launched in the fall of 1858, the machinery coming from San Francisco on the brig Willimantic in December. She was a good-sized sternwheeler, with sixteen-inch cylinders and six-foot stroke, a |
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| Kate Douglas (schooner) | The whaling and fishing industry in the Northwest was becoming of value to Puget Sound and British Columbia, and the schooner Kate Douglas made a short cruise to Cortez Island and returned to Victoria with one hundred and fifty barrels of oil. E. W. Wright, The Alaska Purchase, Advent of Many Fine Steamers on Puget Sound, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.175. |
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| Sir James Douglas (steamer) | Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 140 |
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| Sir James Douglas (steamer) | Several important additions were made to the Victoria steam fleet, among the most notable being the steamer Sir James Douglas, which was launched at Victoria, January 7, 1865, for the Government service along the coast of Vancouver Island. For over a quarter of a century she plodded along the Northwest coast with very little company in the steamship line. In the absence of the steamers of the merchant fleet which came later, the Douglas was pressed into service for all kinds of work, carrying settlers into the new portions of the country and sometimes transporting their products to market. When a wreck occurred on the coast, the Douglas was nearly always dispatched to bring the survivors back to civilization, and in this and other ways she came to be regarded with a feeling akin to veneration. Captain Clark ran her most of the time until 1873, with William A. Steele, engineer, and Edward Quenell, purser. She was laid up at this time, remaining out of service until 1875, when she again came out after extensive |
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| Sir James Douglas (steamer) | The steamer Sir James Douglas, for many years a standby for both the Government and the people of British Columbia, was put on the Puget Sound mail route in July. P. D. Moore, the mail contractor, having failed and deprived the Victorians of postal facilities, Captain Starr refused to assist them until the Government acceded to his terms, and, when a new contract was entered into, the Douglas was relieved by the Isabel. E. W. Wright, Organization of Pacific Coast S. S. Co., Fierce Competition on Ocean Routes, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.261. |
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