Ship Details

Union (I)

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Registry #1 British Columbia (Crown Colony) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1861 Maggie Lauder Name 6
Name 2 1861 Union (I) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1861 Place Victoria Area Country British Columbia (Crown Colony)
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 66.0' x 17.5' x 3'
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 steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain W.G. Doane; Captain T. Coffin (1865);
 
Owner(s)
In 1861 she was owned by the Yale Steam Navigation Co., Victoria BC Canada. The company went into liquidation. She was re-launched as the Union owned by Gustavus Wright and Uriah Nelson & Co.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was launched on May 7, 1861. This vessel was capable of carrying 4 passengers and 20 tons of freight. In 1864-1865 this vessel worked on the Skeena River and was chartered by the Collins Overland Telegraph.
 
References
Hacking, Norman R. Steamboating on the Fraser in the Sixties (in British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. X No.1 January 1946); Affleck, Edward L. (2000);
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