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    Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland, which served in British Columbia. Camosun was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by...
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    purchased by Capt. D.B Jackson, then doing business as the Northwestern Steamship Company, to serve on Puget Sound with the older sidewheelers George E...
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    service for British Columbia Mills Co. In 1905 the company placed Camosun into service. Camosun, 1,369 GT, 192 ft (58.52 m) LOA, was a steel-hulled modern vessel...
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    SS Catala (category Union Steamship Company of British Columbia)
    Canadian coastal passenger and cargo steamship built in Scotland in 1925, for service with the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. In 1927 the...
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    escaped but sank later. Emidio, Montebello, Larry Doheny, Camden and Fort Camosun were sunk. The ship was delivered to the War Shipping Administration on...
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    was a steamship built in 1884 in Hull, England. The ship served as a pilgrimage vessel and a yacht in India from 1884 to 1890, then as a steamship in British...
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    SS Fort Camosun was a coal-burning 7000-ton freighter, built in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1942. In June of 1942, during World War II, she...
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    (ex-HMS Sherborne Castle) HMCS St. Thomas (K488) (ex-HMS Sandgate Castle, later SS Camosun III) HMCS Tillsonburg (K496) (ex-HMS Pembroke Castle), sold to Republic...
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  • Thumbnail for Princess May (steamship)
    Princess May was a steamship built in 1888 which was operated under a number of different names and owners. The ship is best known for having been involved...
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  • Thumbnail for Cowichan (steamship)
    Cowichan was a steamship which was operated in British Columbia under the ownership of the Union Steamship Company. Cowichan sank in 1925 following a...
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    William Moore (5 June 1825 – 29 March 1909) was a steamship captain, businessman, miner and explorer in British Columbia and Alaska. During most of British...
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  • Pacific Railway Coast Service, also known as the British Columbia Coast Steamships (BCCS), was a division of Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), which began...
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    SS Northwestern (category Steamships of the United States Navy)
    The SS Northwestern, originally SS Oriziba, was a passenger and freight steamship launched in 1889 by the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works...
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    Cheakamus was a steamship built in 1913 in North Vancouver, British Columbia. This ship was originally built as the Cheslakee in Scotland. After Cheslakee...
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    John Henry Bonser (1855-1913) was a steamship captain from Oregon, United States and British Columbia, Canada. He piloted dozens of sternwheelers over...
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    John Irving (November 24, 1854 – August or October 10, 1936) was a steamship captain in British Columbia, Canada. He began on the Fraser River at the...
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  • Thumbnail for William Irving (steamship captain)
    William Irving was a steamship captain and entrepreneur in Oregon, US and British Columbia, Canada. The Irvington neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, is...
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    SS Princess Marguerite (category Steamships of Canada)
    primarily Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPSS) and British Columbia Steamships Corporation. The first two were part of the CPR "Princess fleet," which...
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    General Miles was a steamship constructed in 1882 which served in various coastal areas of the states of Oregon and Washington, as well as British Columbia...
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  • Thumbnail for Beaver (steamship)
    Beaver was a steamship originally owned and operated by the Hudson's Bay Company. She was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North...
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    Princess Royal was a wooden steamship built in 1907 for the Canadian Pacific Railway Coast Service. The ship operated on the coasts of British Columbia...
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    Otter was the second steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America, following her sister ship and twin, the much more famous Beaver....
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    wife took over the business in 1873 and Deighton returned to working the steamship that plied the Fraser River, this time as a captain of the steamer Onward...
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  • Thumbnail for Canadian Pacific Navigation Company
    The Canadian Pacific Navigation Company was an early steamship company that operated steamships on the coast of British Columbia and the Inside Passage...
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  • Thumbnail for Cheslakee
    Cheslakee was a steamship that operated from 1910 to 1913 under the ownership of the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. In 1913, the ship sank...
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    For more than 35 years, from 1923 to 1958, the Union steamship Cardena sailed the British Columbia Coast, carrying passengers, groceries, dry goods, industrial...
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  • Thumbnail for Princess Norah (steamship)
    Princess Norah was a steamship which operated in British Columbia and southeastern Alaska from 1929 to 1964. From 1955 to 1958, this ship was called Queen...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Prince Rupert
    The Grand Trunk steamship Prince Rupert and her sister ship SS Prince George served the coast of British Columbia and Alaska. Prince Rupert had a 45-year...
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  • The Flying Dutchman was a 19th-century steamship in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. It was the first steamboat to enter the Stikine River...
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    Lady Alexandra (category Union Steamship Company of British Columbia)
    Lady Alexandra was a steamship built in 1924 in Montrose, Scotland which served in British Columbia from 1924 to 1952, mostly on Howe Sound. Lady Alexandra...
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