Ship Details

Colonel Moody

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Registry #1 (Vancouver Island Register) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1859 Colonel Moody Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1859 Place Victoria Area Country Vancouver Island (Crown Colony)
 
Designer James W. Trahey Measurement (imp) 144.9' x 26.7' x 4.0'
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine (16" x 72" cylinder) steam engine (1859) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Smith Jamieson (1858); Captain Irving; Captain Insley; Captain Wright
 
Owner(s)
In 1859 she was owned by the Victoria Steam Navigation Company. In 1859 she was owned by the British Columbia Navigation Co., Victoria, Vancouver Island.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Also known as 'Col. Moody'. On May 14, 1859 this vessel was launched at Dead Man's Point. In 1861 this vessel was working the New Westminster to Yale service. This vessel was broken up in 1864.
 
References
Hacking, Norman R. Steamboating on the Fraser in the Sixties (in British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. X No.1 January 1946); Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest;
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