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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


Series 6.11 -- Ships (1887-1977) -- S-Ta, Page 3

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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6.11.80

circa 1914 and later -- Photographs of the S.S. Selma in Trail Bay and at Sechelt wharf. The S.S. Selma, previously Santa Cecelia and later Chasina, was operated by the All Red Line until sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1917. She gave her name to Selma Park the All Red Line resort. In 1923 she was sold again to become a rum running boat and when the liquor trade slumped she vanished en route from Vancouver to Macao.

Photographer unknown


6.11.81

circa 1914 and later -- Photographs of the S.S. Selma in Trail Bay and at Sechelt wharf. The S.S. Selma, previously Santa Cecelia and later Chasina, was operated by the All Red Line until sold to the Union Steamship Company in 1917. She gave her name to Selma Park the All Red Line resort. In 1923 she was sold again to become a rum running boat and when the liquor trade slumped she vanished en route from

Photograph by Leighton P. Harrison


6.11.82

1907 -- The damaged hull of the tug S.S. Tartar after a collision with C.P.R.S.S. Charmer

Photograph courtesy Vancouver City Archives


6.11.83

Date unknown -- The S.S. Tartar, built as a tug in 1906 in Britain, photographed off Gibson's Landing.

Photograph courtesy Vancouver City Archives


6.11.84

1910-1912 -- A series of photographs taken of the ex-tug, and at this time passenger vessel, S.S. Tartar after she hit a reef off Lund and overturned. She was salvaged by the tug William Jolliffe. She was owned from 1907 to 1914 by first Herbert Whitaker's Sechelt Towage Company Ltd. and then by some of his other businesses. He converted her to a passenger ship in 1909.

Images F-5450, F-5451, F-5453 courtesy Royal B.C. Museum, B.C. Archives. See also oversize photograph 6.15.173


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