| City Of Victoria (steamer) | The one - time Edmonds - Victoria steamer City of Victoria was ordered sold early in the year to satisfy claims totaling $343,000. The vessel was bid in by the Bank of California, one of the principal libelant, for $ 10,000, and was resold in the fall to the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co. for conversion to a floating barracks to house employees at a $3,000,000 Naval air base construction project at Sitka. The former Queen of the Chesapeake, badly deteriorated after a decade in layup, was towed to the Lake Union Drydock & Machine Works for survey by Mc Githrie & McDonald, after which she was thoroughly renovated at the Harbor Island plant of her new owners. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1939, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 473. |
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| Princess Victoria (steamer) | Converted into hog fuel carrier Tahsis No. III, Foundered on Welcome Pass, March 10, 1953. Maritime memories, the Princess Victoria, built at Newcastle, England in 1903, The Marine Digest. February 15, 1986, p. 6. |
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| Princess Victoria (steamer) | The Canadian Pacific express steamer Princess Victoria, maintaining her high-speed schedule on the Vancouver Victoria - Seattle route, in July overtook and sank the 54-ton wooden steam tug Chehalis of Union Steamships Ltd. while entering Vancouver harbor. Only seven of the 16 persons aboard the Chehalis were saved. This tragedy resulted in the passage of new ordinances prohibiting ships overtaking and passing one another inside Burnaby Light. An obelisk near Brockton Point in Stanley Park, overlooking the scene of the disaster, was erected in memory of its victims. xxxx, p. 128. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | The postal contract, for which Goodall, Nelson & Perkins received $400 per trip, called for the operation of English and American steamers, and one of the new arrivals on the line was the steamship Victoria, Hayward, captain, J. C. Hunter, first officer, George Nixon, chief engineer, Robert Hackley, first assistant, the latter and Robert Turner subsequently serving as chief. E. W. Wright, Modern Propeller Steamships Appear, Oregon Railway & Navigation Company Incorporated, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.275. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | The steamship Victoria, which was the old Bolivar lengthened and renamed, made her last port November 28, 1883. In command of Captain Reichmann she started from Victoria for San Francisco, and in keeping too close in shore piled up on Cape Blanco reef, becoming a total loss. She was insured for $120,000, and John Bermingham purchased the wreck for $900 and the cargo for $ 110.. Captain Reichmann was censured for the accident and temporarily relieved of his license. E. W. Wright, Marine business of 1883, Lewis and Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 313. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | The Victoria was a fine steamer, one hundred and sixteen feet long and twenty-three feet beam, built on the upper Fraser by Mr. Trahey for Edgar Marvin, to run from Big Bar to Quesnelmouth. She was fitted with the engines and boilers from the Lilloet Lake steamer Prince of Wales, and began running soon after she was launched in May, continuing on her original route, except at intervals, until 1879, when she was purchased by Capt. John Irving. 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.176. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | November 28, 1883 Steamer. Sailed en route Victoria-San Francisco under Captain Reichmann when she ran afoul of the Cape Blanco-Orford reef and became a total loss. She was insured for $12,000; the wreck sold for $900, the cargo for $110. Very little is known of the event. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Oregon California Border, Chetco to Blacklock Point, Oregon Shipwrecks. p. 26-28 |
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| Victoria (steamer) | November 28, 1883 Steamer. Sailed en route Victoria-San Francisco under Captain Reichmann when she ran afoul of the Cape Blanco-Orford reef and became a total loss. She was insured for $12,000; the wreck sold for $900, the cargo for $110. Very little is known of the event. Don Marshall, Ship disasters, Oregon-California Border. Oregon Shipwrecks. Portland: Binfords and Mort, 1984, p. 26-28. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | Sells oldest U.S. Steamer, The Tacoma News Tribune. March 7, 1954. Victoria sold; old shp may become a museum, The Marine Digest. March 13, 1954. Philip H. Parrish. Before the Covered Wagon, p. 11, 24. Victoria still dependable as a freight vessel, The Marine Digest. December 26, 1953. Famous Alaska Gold Rush Ship Victoria Sold, The Tacoma News Tribune. March 5, 1954. (Sold to Dullien Steel Products Company. Built in 1870. 2656 gross tons. 370 feet long). Ship Victoria ending career, The Tacoma News Tribune. October 1, 1945. (Alaska Steamship Company laying up veteran of seventy-five years). Will sail again, April 17, 1951, The Marine Digest. April 14, 1951. Oldest ship in merchant marine. Alaska Line sells Vic, may star in a movie, The Seattle Post Intelligencer. March 6, 1954. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | The veteran steamship Victoria of the Alaska Line, on western Alaska freight and passenger service, was extensively rebuilt, with a new deckhouse forward and other changes and improvements. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1923, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest p. 340. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | This interesting period, blending as it did the age of sail with the air age, was typified by the arrival of the venerable steamship Victoria (a vessel which as the Cunarder Parthia of the 1870's had relied as much upon sail as steam), with the dirigible Norge in which Captian Amundsen and his companions had made the first polar flight from Spitzenberge to Teller, Alaska. Gordon Newell, Marine Events of 1926, H.W. McCurdy, Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 372. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | Victoria, British steamer, Port Blakeley for Taku, wrecked in the Straits of Pechali on Little Bamboo Island, April 10, 1903. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1903, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 95. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | The little 55-ton, 75-foot stern-wheeler Victoria was also launched at St. Michael by the N. A. T. & T., being used as pilot boat on the Yukon Flats to guide the company's steamers between Fort Yukon and Circle City. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1897, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 21. |
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| Victoria (steamer) | The latter was the old steamship Bolivar, which had been cut in two and lengthened eighty feet, making her dimensions: length, two hundred and ninety-eight feet; beam, twenty-nine feet; depth of hold, twenty feet. She arrived at Victoria on her first trip March 19th [1879] in command of Captain Lyons, formerly of the Prince Alfred. She was owned by Goodall, Nelson & Perkins, and continued on the northern routes until November, 1883, when she was wrecked near Cape Blanco. E. W. Wright, Modern Propeller Steamships Appear, Oregon Railway & Navigation Company Incorporated, Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Antiquarian Press, Ltd., 1961., p.468. |
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