Ship Details

Tutshi

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Photo Credit: UBC Library & Archives

 
 
Registry #1 138695 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1917 Tutshi Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1917 Place Carcross Area YT Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 167.0' x 35.3' x 6.4'
Builder Cousins Bros. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1040.51 Type 1 Passenger Vessel
Registered Tonnage 746.31 Type 2
Engine 2-17nhp horizontal (high pressure 16" x 84' cylinder) steam engines (1917) Engine Manufacture Dubuque Iron Works, Dubuque IA
Repower Repowered in 1927 with two 46.9nhp horizontal compound 14.7/16: 22.25 x 72" cylinder oil burning steam engines by Drydock Engine Works , Detroit MI USA Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1917-1955 she was owned by The British Yukon Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC in service on Lake Tagish.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1971-04-13
 
Named Features
Significance of Name The name was derived from a Tlingit word.
 
Anecdotes
Her name was pronounced - "Too Shy". this vessel was on the Carcross to Grahame Inlet on the Atlin run. Later this vessel was on a tourist route between Carcross to Ben-My-Cree. This vessel retired in 1955. In 1954 this vessel was removed from service and beached in 1955 at Carcross YT as a museum display. The vessel was destroyed by fire in 1990.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Affleck, Edward L. (2000); Charlebois, Peter. (1978); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11930/1306?r=0&s=4 ;
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