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21: 402: 50: 389:. She was brought into the shipyard at Nakusp, where builder James Bulger hauled her out of the water, unfastened her house and machinery, and jacked them up on timbers. Bulger and his workmen then launched the old hull back onto the lake and built a new hull under the old house and machinery. The supports were removed, and the vessel was relaunched. With a new hull, 448:, moored at Nakusp, sank at the dock. Either her hull seams had opened or the weight of ice and snow on her decks and house had pressed her down so far that water poured in through ports that had been left open. She sank quickly, heeled over sharply on her port side, with the water up to the pilot house. 299:
and his sons James M. and David T. Bulger. Most inland steamers of the Pacific Northwest were built with a flat bottom with as shallow a draft as possible so that they could move as far up the many shallow rivers to reach gold fields, farms or other areas where transportation was needed and roads or
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in 1914, the young men of British Columbia were mobilized and many C.P.R. employees volunteered for Canada's armed services. Engineers, deck and engine room hands were especially wanted by the navy. As the young men left, the local farms and businesses declined, and there was a fall-off in tourism
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caught fire below the down of Nakusp. Captain Forslund was able to beach the vessel and extinguish the flames. Steamboat operation on the Arrow Lakes was seasonal, as they were generally frozen over during winter. The boats were moored in as safe a place as could be found during the freeze up,
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s hull, built entirely of wood, wore out quickly under heavy use, and became waterlogged. This was typical for wooden steamboats. If repair of the hull was impractical, sometimes a new hull would be built and the boat's cabins (called the "house") and machinery would be transferred to the new
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was an exception to this rule. She was intended to operate as a "lake boat" where depth of water was normally not a problem, and therefore she had a rounder and deeper bottom than the normal sternwheeler design. Her lake boat design would make
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During the winter of 1908 to 1909, at a cost of $ 2,290, her texas deck (the highest cabin on the ship except for the pilot house) was extended all the way back to the stern to allow additional passenger accommodations. The
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The longer texas allows this photograph to be dated as after 1910. The close interaction between the railway and the Arrow Lakes steamers can be seen with the rail tracks and freight cars running right out to the
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was easily the fastest vessel on the lakes. However, she burned too much coal at this pace, and normally did not run so fast. Steamboats were prone to damage and even destruction by fire, as
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and sometimes work would be done on them to prepare them for the next season. Often work would be done on the boats to prepare them for the next season, and this occurred in
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like other C.P.R. inland steamers, transported troops. The economic downturn caused by mobilization forced C.P.R. to take a number of its steamers out of operation.
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was raised in March 1917. Her long-time master, Captain Forslund, bought her hull and used it as a wharf boat for his place south of
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Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs -- An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's British Columbia Lake and River Service
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Steamer's Wake—Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River
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was practically a new steamboat. The texas was also extended a bit during the 1909–10 reconstruction.
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faster and more efficient on the deep water of the Arrow Lakes. Her powerful engines were built by
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Paddlewheels on the Frontier -- The Story of British Columbia and Yukon River Sternwheel Steamers
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had been having boiler troubles, and rather than repairing them, C.P.R. took her out of service.
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coal-fired boiler, steam engines, twin horizontally mounted, 22" bore by 96" stroke, 32.2
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The short texas (upper cabin) dates this photograph as before the winter or 1909–1910.
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Blow for the Landing—A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West
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A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska
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Sternwheelers up Columbia—A Century of Steamboating in the Oregon Country
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for completion. Before passenger accommodations were installed,
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began in early 1898. At her maximum speed, 22 miles per hour,
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inland lake boat, express passenger/tourism/general purpose
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hull. In the winter of 1909–1910, this was done with the
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BC Ministry of Transportation (Department of Highways)
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for its steamboat lines running in the lakes of the
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Sunk at dock while out of service, January 25, 1917
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Passenger service for 466:List of historical ships in British Columbia 295:at the shipyard owned by the master builder 396: 242:was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the 688: 674: 328:was towed to a nearby wharf by the vessel 257: 494: 492: 490: 488: 486: 484: 482: 480: 319: 400: 1144:Upper Fraser, Nechako and Stuart Rivers 1309: 477: 300:railroads were absent or inadequate. 669: 265:was the third steamboat built by the 46: 1018:Interior Tug & Transport Company 563: 439: 194:7.0 ft (2 m) depth of hold 1322:Paddle steamers of British Columbia 1123:Canadian Pacific Railway (mainline) 620:, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho 338:was worked towing barges while the 13: 579: 14: 1353: 631: 589:, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 371: 1281:Columbia River (Wenatchee Reach) 48: 19: 36:on right, between 1898 and 1900 1154:Arrow Lakes and Columbia River 1054:Owners, captains and personnel 1: 1317:Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes 1113:Columbia and Kootenay Railway 697:Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes 428:as well. In her last years, 409: 1214:Pacific Northwest steamboats 1205:Gulf of Georgia-Lower Fraser 7: 1327:History of British Columbia 1169:Columbia Lake-East Kootenay 1137:British Columbia steamboats 459: 356:had been in 1897. In 1899 222:22 miles per hour (maximum) 10: 1358: 252:Rossland, British Columbia 1213: 1196:Peace & Finlay Rivers 1136: 1118:Nakusp and Slocan Railway 1105: 1089: 1053: 1026: 1000: 855:Landings (south to north) 854: 703: 178:183.5 ft (56 m) 153: 41: 18: 1036:(EN : Death Rapids) 659:at Nakusp, 1910 or later 471: 423:When Canada entered the 397:Effects of the Great War 267:Canadian Pacific Railway 77:Canadian Pacific Railway 258:Design and construction 186:29.1 ft (9 m) 154:General characteristics 420: 324:Following her launch, 320:Service on Arrow Lakes 114:November 18, 1897, at 1236:Yaquina Bay and River 1128:Kettle Valley Railway 650:at Nakusp, circa 1898 444:On January 25, 1917, 404: 285:and back in one day. 250:. 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Mara 977:Arrowhead 917:Mackinson 882:Castlegar 862:Marcus WA 425:Great War 419:alongside 315:Vancouver 279:Arrowhead 271:Kootenays 992:La Porte 972:Comaplix 952:St. Leon 902:Fauquier 892:Edgewood 820:Whatshan 804:Rossland 796:Kootenay 788:Columbia 756:Columbia 732:Despatch 728:Dispatch 720:Kootenai 657:Rossland 648:Rossland 639:Rossland 460:See also 450:Rossland 446:Rossland 434:Rossland 430:Rossland 406:Rossland 391:Rossland 387:Rossland 379:Rossland 368:s case. 363:Rossland 358:Rossland 350:Rossland 346:Rossland 336:Rossland 326:Rossland 307:Rossland 302:Rossland 289:Rossland 263:Rossland 239:Rossland 227:Capacity 111:Launched 106:$ 86,000 67:Rossland 26:Rossland 897:Needles 454:Needles 415:, with 206:nominal 167:Tonnage 93:Builder 42:History 967:Beaton 947:Nakusp 942:Burton 887:Robson 847:(1948) 844:Widget 839:(1929) 831:(1911) 823:(1909) 815:(1898) 807:(1897) 799:(1897) 783:(1890) 775:(1895) 772:Nakusp 767:(1892) 751:(1890) 748:Lytton 743:(1890) 740:Marion 735:(1888) 723:(1885) 715:(1865) 662:docks. 624:  610:  593:  557:  506:  354:Nakusp 341:Lytton 331:Nakusp 293:Nakusp 283:Robson 175:Length 56:Canada 927:Birds 877:Trail 812:Minto 780:Trail 472:Notes 417:Minto 382:' 366:' 313:, in 219:Speed 191:Depth 83:Route 73:Owner 34:Minto 30:Trail 622:ISBN 608:ISBN 591:ISBN 555:ISBN 504:ISBN 236:The 183:Beam 159:Type 146:Fate 133:1916 125:1898 103:Cost 63:Name 281:to 246:in 1313:: 730:/ 602:, 514:^ 479:^ 456:. 410:c. 689:e 682:t 675:v

Index

Rossland (in center), with Trail on left and Minto on right, between 1898 and 1900
Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway
Arrow Lakes
Thomas J. Bulger
Nakusp, BC
horsepower
Arrow Lakes
British Columbia
Rossland, British Columbia
Canadian Pacific Railway
Kootenays
James W. Troup
Arrowhead
Robson
Nakusp
Thomas J. Bulger
B.C. Iron Works
Vancouver
Nakusp
Lytton

Great War
Needles
List of historical ships in British Columbia




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