Ship Details

Enterprise (VII)

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Registry #1 British Columbia (Crown Colony) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1863 Enterprise (VII) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1863 Place Fort Alexandria Area Country British Columbia (Crown Colony)
 
Designer James W. Trahey Measurement (imp) 110.0' x 20.0' x ?
Builder Trahey, James W. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Passenger Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 60np 12" x 36" steam engine (1863) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Thomas Wright (1863);
 
Owner(s)
In 1863 she was owned by Captain Thomas (Tom) Wright and Gustavus Blin Wright.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
A company was organized in 1863 to operate the steamer Enterprise on the Fraser River between Soda Creek and Quesnel. In 1871 this vessel worked up the Nechako-Stuart Waterway supplying the Omenica mining camps. This vessel was abandoned at Trembleur Lake BC Canada.
 
References
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1967) Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest; Affleck, Edward L. (2000); Hacking, Norman R. Steamboating on the Fraser in the Sixties (in British Columbia Historical Quarterly Vol. X No.1 January 1946);
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