FINDING AID: 42-21 RECORD GROUP: RG 42 - Marine Branch SERIES: C-3 - Register of Wrecks and Casualties, Inland Waters DESCRIPTION: The finding aid is an incomplete list of Statement of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss. DATE: April 1998 LIST OF SHIPPING CASUALTIES RESULTING IN TOTAL LOSS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA COASTAL WATERS SINCE 1897 Port of Net Date Name of vessel Registry Register Nature of casualty O.N. Tonnage Place of casualty 18 9 7 Dec. - NAKUSP New Westminster, 831,83 Fire, B.C. Arrow Lake, B.C. 18 9 8 June ISKOOT Victoria, B.C. 356 Stranded, near Alaska July 1 MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN Vancouver, B.C. 629 Went to pieces while being towed, 4 miles off Carmanah Point, Vancouver Island, B.C. Sept.16 BARBARA BOSCOWITZ Victoria, B.C. 239 Stranded, Browning Island, Kitkatlah Inlet, B.C. Sept.27 PIONEER Victoria, B.C. 66 Missing, North Pacific Nov. 29 CITY OF AINSWORTH New Westminster, 193 Sprung a leak, B.C. Kootenay Lake, B.C. Nov. 29 STIRINE CHIEF Vancouver, B.C. Vessel parted her chains while being towed, Alaskan waters, North Pacific 18 9 9 Feb. 1 GREENWOOD Victoria, B.C. 89,77 Fire, laid up July 12 LOUISE Seaback, Wash. 167 Fire, Victoria Harbour, B.C. July 12 KATHLEEN Victoria, B.C. 590 Fire, Victoria Harbour, B.C. Sept.10 BON ACCORD New Westminster, 52 Fire, lying at wharf, B.C. New Westminster, B.C. Sept.10 GLADYS New Westminster, 211 Fire, lying at wharf, B.C. New Westminster, B.C. Sept.10 EDGAR New Westminster, 114 Fire, lying at wharf, B.C. New Westminster, B.C. Oct. - WILLIE IRVING Victoria, B.C. Crushed in the ice Oct. 7 UNCLE JOHN American 273 Stranded, North Pacific coast Oct. STRATTON Sank in Yukon River Nov. - VIVIAN Victoria, B.C. (Nor particulars) Near Dawson, Y.T. - 2 - 18 9 9 (cont'd) Nov. 26 HERA Seattle, Wash. 381 Fire, Cafie Flattery, Wash. NORDICA Vancouver, B.C. Wrecked, Yukon 19 0 0 Feb. - MIAMI New York, N.Y. 2,292 Pilot misjudged distance from land, Trincomali Channel, B.C. Apr. - REINDEER Victoria, B.C. 224.80 Fire, Five Fingers Rapids, Yukon River June 2 TRAIL New Westminster , 417.55 Fire, Robsor wharf, 103.306 B.C. Columbia River, B.C. July 16 FLORENCE S. Dawson, Y.T. — Wrecked, Lewis River, Alaska Aug. 9 W. K. MERWIN Dawson, Y.T. — Wrecked, coast of Alaska, near St. Michaels Aug. 24 CUTC1I Vancouver, B.C. 366 Stranded, Horseshoe1 Reef Stephen's Passage, Alaska Dec. 15 ALPHA Vancouver, B.C. 653 Lost, east point of Yellow Rock, Gulf of Georgia, B.C. 19 0 1 Mar. 16 WILLAMETTE American 1,695 Stranded, Union Bay, Baynes Sound, B.C. May 6 BESSIE Victoria, B.C. 11 Cause of casualty unknown 107.522 Ladysmith, B.C. May 20 CELESTE BURRILL Yarmouth, N.S. 1,764 Sprung a leak, Lat. 20° 47' N hong. 120° 44' E Pacific Ocean Aug. 15 ISLANDER Victoria, B.C. 478 Struck an iceberg, Point 95,093 Hilda, Stephen's Passage, off Douglas Island, Alaska. Sept 10 AMUR Victoria, B.C. 907 Casualty caused by careless 98,073 navigation, Chilkat Inlet, Alaska Oct. 12 A. G. GODDARD British — Capsized and sank in gale, 107.517 Lake Laberge, Y.T. Nov. 16 HIGHLAND LIGHT San Francisco, 1,250 Sprung a leak, 95,318 Calif. Lat. 48° 30' N Long. 126° 30' W North Pacific 19 0 2 Jan. 2 BRISTOL Victoria, B.C. 1,983 Stranded on a rock lying be- 73,624 tween Gray and Green Islands, Chatham Straits, B.C. Feb. 11 FAWN Victoria, B.C. 59 Broke from anchorage, drifted 100,495 ashore, Catala Island, Esperanz. Inlet, B.C. 19 0 2 (cont'd) Feb. 18 R. I. MORSE Victoria, B.C. 30 Swamped, 100,806 Lat. 42° 10' N Long. 124° 50' W May 28 VIKING Vancouver, B.C. 14 Fire, while under repairs, 111,817 Vancouver, B.C. Aug. 23 MONA Dawson, Y.T. 154 Fire, laid up in winter 107,102 quarters, Dawson, Y.T. GLENORA Dawson, Y.T. 342 Fire, laid up in winter 107,149 quarters, Dawson, Y.T. 19 0 3 Jan. 24 GLAD TIDINGS Victoria, B.C. 43 Wrecked in gale, 88,371 Shushartie Bay, B.C. Mar. 10 GEO. W. PRESCOTT Victoria, B.C. 41 Foundered, 111,775 Lat. 46° 30' N Long. 124° 49' W North Pacific July 30 V. C. CO. NO. 4 New Westminster, 15 Abandoned, old and leaky, 107,624 B.C. near Anacortes, Wash. July 30 V. C. CO. NO. 5 New Westminster, 21 Stranded and abandoned 107,629 B.C. near Anacortes, Wash. Oct. 18 CHAMPION Vancouver, B.C. 68 Fire, Oyster Bay, Vancouver Island, B.C. Oct. 27 WEMPE BROS, San Francisco, 605 Stranded, Calif. Bonilla Point, Vancouver, B.C. Dec. 15 NANANENSE Victoria, B.C. 976 Stranded, 70,709 Volcano Bay, Japan 19 0 4 Mar. 9 PENELOPE Victoria, B.C. 70 Stranded, Clallam Bay, 72,783 Juan de Fuca Strait, B.C. June 20 LOIS Vancouver, B.C. 17 Stranded, Queen Charlotte 100,200 Channel, Howe Sound, B.C. Sept. 3 DRUMBURTON Victoria, B.C. 1,773 Stranded, Point San Pedro, 84,131 San Francisco, Calif. Oct. 2 BARBARA BOSCOWITZ Victoria, B.C. 253 Stranded, 83,454 Johnstone Strait, B.C. Nov. 25 IRIS Vancouver, B.C. 40 Stranded, 116,787 Lat. 49° 18' N Long. 123° 8' M Burrard Inlet, B.C. HIACK Vancouver, B.C. 16 Stranded, 107,730 Barkley Sound, B.C. 19 0 5 Mar. 23 GEORGIAN Stranded, Downe's Point, Hornby Island, B.C. 19 0 5 (cont'd) Nov. 7 CLIFFORD SIFTON Victoria, B.C. 184 Collision with "Sarah", 107,528 Sunnydale Slough, Yukon River Dec. 13 KING DAVID Glasgow, Scot, 2,079 Stranded, Bajo Reef, B.C. 102,699 Lat. 49° 37' N Long. 127° 13' W Pacific Ocean Dec. 26 PASS OF MELFORT Glasgow, Scot, 2,196 Stranded, 98,683 Lat. 48° 55' 32" N Long. 125° 32' 07" W western entrance to Barkley Sound, B.C. 19 0 6 Jan. 22 VALENCIA New York, N.Y. 1,197 Stranded near Clanewak, 25,998 Lat. 48° 42' 30" N Long. 125° 011 25" W shore of Vancouver Island, B.C Apr. 21 HILMENY Vancouver, B.C. 18 Stranded, San Josef Bay, west 100,649 coast of Vancouver Island, B.C July 21 CHEHALIS Vancouver, B.C. ' 36 Collision with "Princess 103,165 Victoria", Brockton Point, Vancouver Narrows, B.C. Sept.25 COLUMBIAN Victoria, B.C. 445 Fire, Eagle Rock, 107,091 Yukon River Oct. 25 SKACIT Port Townsend, 443 Stranded, west of Wash. Clo-oose Bay, B.C. Dec. 7 COLOMA San Francisco, 852 Foundered, west coast of 5,796 Calif, Vancouver Island, B.C. Dec. 15 THEMIS Tonsberg, Norway 1,208 Stranded, Broken Rock, ent- 100-A-l rance to Browning Passage, Queen Charlotte Sound, B.C. 19 0 7 Feb. 9 ALICE Vancouver, B.C. 7 Stranded, 112,244 Knights Inlet, B.C. June 21 THISTLE Victoria, B.C. 16,10 Fire, 7 miles north of Pine 94,819 Island Light, Queen Char- lotte Sound, B.C. July 6 MOUNT ROYAL Victoria, B.C. 296 Stranded, Ringbolt Island, 111,778 Skeena River July 10 JAPAN Victoria, B.C. 331 Blown up by dynamite, between 107,831 Reef Point and Bold Island, Alaska Aug. 7 PRINCE RUPERT Vancouver, B.C. 8.10 Foundered, 122,323 Sechelt, B.C. 19 0 8 Feb. 21 KENORA Vancouver, B.C. 9 Struck rock and sank, 122,326 Nelson Island, B.C. Apr. 9 STEEL HEAD Fire, Parsley Island, Howe Sound, B.C. Jan. 5 JOHN P. DOUGLAS Vancouver, B.C. 149 Fire, £ mile below Harrison 126,079 River, Fraser River, B.C. Jan. 22 SOQUEL Sun Francisco, 698 Stranded, Seabird Rocks, Calif. Vancouver Island, B.C. Jan. 25 VENTURE Victoria, B.C. 489 Fire, Inverness Cannery, 111,776 Prince Rupert, B.C. Feb. 18 C. P. N. NO. 1 Victoria, B.C. 91 Stranded, Cadboro Point, B.C., 100,508 bearing S W distant \ mile Mar. 19 DAISY Victoria, B.C. 41 Stranded, 88,375 Tumbo Passage, B.C. Apr. 12 KOOTNEY Vancouver, B.C. 5 Tow rope broke, stranded, 111,820 English Bay, Vancouver Harbour, B.C. July 15 GWILYM Vancouver, B.C. 10 Explosion and fire, Oxford 126,470 Bay, Bute Inlet, B.C. Nov. 13 LULU New Westminster, 16 Fire, 3i knot s west of Lucy 92,779 B.C. Island, Chatham Sound, B.C. Nov. 27 CANADA Vancouver, B.C. 304 Stranded, English Bay Buoy, 111,772 Vancouver Harbour, B.C. BRODICK CASTLE Victoria, B.C. 1,770 Missing, 71,743 North Pacific 19 10 Mar. 3 PICNIC Vancouver, B.C. Fire, 17 miles above Lund, 126,622 Lewis Channel, B.C. Mar. 23 ARTHUR B. Vancouver, B.C. 92 Foundered, off Sand Heads, 126,735 Fraser River, B.C. July 9 BELFAST Vancouver, B.C. Fire, entrance Dodds Narrows, 116,782 Vancouver Island, B.C. Sept. 9 ALBION Victoria, B.C. 59.92 Stranded, Black Point, 107,716 Malaspina Strait, B.C. Sept.17 BELCARRA Vancouver, B.C. 172 Stranded, Ill,986 Agamemnon Channel, B.C. Nov. 10 SHAWATLANS Vancouver, B.C. Fire, 122,1.56 Prince Rupert, B.C. Nov. 26 FERN Vancouver, B.C. 17 Fire, 111,983 Gulf of Georgia, B.C. 19 11 Feb. 2 COMRADE Port Angeles, Fire, 25,325 Wash. off Cliff Island, B.C. Mar. 15 UMBRINE Shelburne, N.S. 99 Collision with "Saturn" and 94,634 foundered, Lat. 43 50' N Long. 125° 00' W North Pacific Mar.