Vancouver (steamboat)

Vancouver
History
Builder: Hudson's Bay Company
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 324 tons
Crew: 24

Vancouver was a steam-run bark built and operated by the Hudson's Bay Company to serve on the route between London, England and Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in what is now the province of British Columbia, Canada. Other vessels committed to the route were Columbia and Cowlitz, but Vancouver was the first of the three to enter Victoria harbour, and the first vessel to sail directly from England to enter that port, in 1845.[1] Other vessels in the company's service were Nereid and Cadboro.[2]

Vancouver was 324 tons burthen, and had six guns and a crew of 24 men.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ British Columbia: From the earliest times to the present, Vol. I, E.O.S. Scholefield & F.W. Howay, p.477
  2. ↑ History of British Columbia from its earliest discovery to the present time, Alexander Begg, publ. William Briggs, Toronto, 1894], p.139
  3. ↑ History of British Columbia from its earliest discovery to the present time, Alexander Begg, publ. William Briggs, Toronto, 1894], p.139
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