Ship Details

Charmer (I)

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Registry #1 100793 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1886 Premier (III) Name 6
Name 2 1902 Charmer (I) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1886 Place San Francisco Area CA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 200.0' x 42.0' x 12.9'
Builder Union Iron Works Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Iron Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1044 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage 497 Type 2
Engine 1300hp triple expansion 3-cylinder engine Engine Manufacture Union Iron Works, San Francisco CA USA
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 1923 she was converted to carry automobiles on Vancouver-Nanaimo run. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters (as Premier): Captain John O'Brien; Captain B. Gilboy. (as Charmer): Captain Robert Alexander Hunter; Captain Jack Williams; Captain George Rudlin; Captain Thomas S. Guns;
 
Owner(s)
In 1886 she was owned by E.W. Spencer. In 1886-1901 she was owned by Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, Victoria BC. In 1901 she was owned by Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. Ltd., Victoria BC. In 1914 she was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., Montreal QC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1935-00-00
 
Named Features Charmer Point (BC)
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Capacity 300 day passengers, staterooms for 79. In 1892 this vessel collided with Willamette and was beached at Bush Point, towed to Victoria. In 1902 this vesselmade her 3000th voyage. In 1907 this vessel was involved in a collision with CPR trans-Pacific steamer Tartar (both vessels heavily damaged). On December 03, 1908 the Charmer ran afoul of a fully loaded barge in tow of Bermuda in First Narrows, and ran ashore to save her. On hitting the beach the crew swung out the boats in preparation for evacuating the passengers and crew. The Chief Officer in one of the ship's boats sailed to a large coal barge alongside the Empress of Japan who brought the longshoremen and the barge back to the Charmer to unload her cargo. Two large kedge anchors were dropped astern and at low water the hole in her side was patched and the water pumped out. The Bermuda also suffered damage. THe barge this vessel was towing was owned by Macdonald, Marpole & Co. It was thought that the Charmer hit the barge first which swung her around toward the Bermuda. In 1916 this vesselrammed and sank the CGS Quadra in fog off Nanaimo. In 1933 this vesselserved as a dressing room for bathers at Newcastle Island. In 1935 this vessel was dismantled, the hull was burned at Albert Head, Victoria BC.
 
References
Turner, R.D. (2001); Canada List of Shipping (1898); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; Daily Province (Vancouver BC) Friday December 4, 1910 page 24;
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