Beaver 1834

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Beaver 1834

Post by shipstamps » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:01 pm

In 1834, the Hudson's Bay Company decided a steamship would improve the Pacific coastal trade, and the Blackwall shipyard, on the Thames was given the order for a wooden paddle steamer, approximately 101ft. in length, 33 ft. beam (including the paddle-boxes) and of 109 tons burden. Launched as the Beaver, the ship made her way to the Pacific by sail because she could not carry
enough coal to go under steam. She was the first steamship in the North Pacific, proving very useful in the fur trade. The vessel overcame American competition on the coast, thus helping not only to trade furs but to carry passengers and cargo to transport cattle, to tow log booms and barges and to conduct surveys. Still hard at work, she ran aground in 1888 near Vancouver, was abandoned and eventually broke up four years later. SG820
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