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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