Ship Details

Barbara Boscowitz

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Registry #1 083454 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1883 Barbara Boscowitz Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1883 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 119.0' x 22.0' x 16.0'
Builder Smith, J. McC. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 269
Gross Tonnage 269.08 Type 1 Schooner, three-masted (steam)
Registered Tonnage 239.2 Type 2
Engine 12nhp compound steam engine Engine Manufacture Thomas Gowen, Victoria BC
Repower In 1899 she was re-powered with a compound Albion Iron Works 21hp engine. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 1898 she was wrecked. In 1899 she was rebuilt to 337.92gt 256.43rt. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain J.D. Warren (1883), Captain Jagers (1885); Captain Williams; Captain John Steele (1898); Captain William H. Whiteley;
 
Owner(s)
In 1883 she was owned by Captain J.D. Warren, Victoria BC. In 1889 she was owned by Captain Samuel Williams, Victoria BC. In 1889 she was owned by William McDowell, Thomas Shotbolt, and Alexander McLellan, all of Victoria BC and Angus R. Johnston, Nanaimo BC. In 1891 she was owned by the North Pacific Canning Co. Ltd., Victoria BC and by Alexander G. McCandless, Victoria BC and Captain J.D. Warren, Victoria BC and Joan Dunsmuir, Victoria BC (et al). In 1895-1896 she was owned by Samuel Williams, Victoria BC. In 1898 she was owned by Angus Rutherford, Nanaimo BC. In 1898 she was owned by Captain J.D. Warren, Joseph A. Boscowitz, Henry Saunders, Walter Morris, et al. all of Victoria BC. In 1901-1904 she was owned by The Boscowitz Steamship Co. Ltd., Victoria BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1898-09-16
 
Named Features
Significance of Name She was named for Barbara Boscowitz, the daughter of Joseph Boscowitz.
 
Anecdotes
On April 1, 1883 this vessel was launched, under Captain Warren as master. In 1899 this vesseloperated on the Victoria, Stewart, Skagway run carrying passengers. On September 16, 1898, under command of Captain John Steele, this vessel was wrecked after stranding on a rock at Browning Island, in Kitkatlah Inlet BC. This vessel had been carrying a cargo of salmon and was caught in the swift current. The crew and passengers were rescued by the Princess Louise and brought to Victoria BC. After the removal of her cargo this vesselrolled over and was laying on her side and was almost covered at high tide. Captain Warren supervised the salvage of the vessel and this vessel was put back into service. On October 02, 1904 at 10:30pm this vesselstruck a reef off Harbledown Island, Alert Bay BC and sank. The passengers panicked in an uproar as the vessel heeled over to starboard. Someone cut the falls to a lifeboat and it plunged into the water killing four young First Nation girls who were passengers. Other passengers who had fallen into the water were rescued by First Nations people in canoes. Order being restored on board all the remaining passengers disembarked in lifeboats and safely reached the shore. In 1904 this vessel was salvaged by the B.C. Salvage Co. and towed to Esquimalt Harbour.
 
References
Leonoff, Cyril Edel (1978); Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Vessels on the Registry of the Dominion of Canada in British Columbia (1895); Marc, Jacques (2009); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; The Vancouver Daily World (Vancouver BC) Friday September 23, 1898 page 1; The Province (Vancouver BC) October 6, 1904 page 1; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c3185/123?r=0&s=5 (website viewed 10/01/2020); LAC RG12, A1, Vol 414 Shipping Registers Victoria BC;
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