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Helen
Dawe Collection
Series
6.11
Ships, A-Chea
Ships,
Che-I
Ships,
K-R
Ships,
S-Ta
Ships,
Te-Y
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Series
6.11 -- Ships (1887-1977) -- A-Chea, Page 6
Most
photographs are of Union Steamship vessels, which operated between Vancouver,
Sechelt and Powell River. Some are of other steamship lines' vessels
or are of privately owned ships with connections to Sechelt.
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6.11.26
circa
1920 -- A series of photographs of the Union Steamship Company
vessel S.S. Chasina taken while she was berthed at the Sechelt
wharf and in Trail Bay. Captain Edward Georgeson stands on her
deck. She was built in 1881 and named the Santa Cecelia until
The All Red Line purchased her in 1911 and named her the S.S.
Selma. When the USS bought her in1917 she was renamed the S.S.
Chasina. She was sold again in 1923.
Photograph
by Edric Clayton
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6.11.27
1913-1914
-- The Union Steamship Company's S.S. Cheakamus at Sechelt wharf.
She was built in Ireland in 1910 and named the Cheslakee. In 1913
she sank alongside the wharf at Vananda on Texada Island; the
only accident involving loss of life in a Union Steamship Company
passenger vessel. She was raised and renamed S.S. Cheakamus, sailing
the B.C. coast until sold to the USA government in 1941 as a salvage
tug.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury, courtesy of the Haslett family
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6.11.28
1913-1914
-- The Union Steamship Company's S.S. Cheakamus at Sechelt wharf.
She was built in Ireland in 1910 and named the Cheslakee. In 1913
she sank alongside the wharf at Vananda on Texada Island; the
only accident involving loss of life in a Union Steamship Company
passenger vessel. She was raised and renamed S.S. Cheakamus, sailing
the B.C. coast until sold to the USA government in 1941 as a salvage
tug.
Photograph
by Charles Bradbury, courtesy of the Haslett family
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