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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