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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 5

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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6.11.90

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.


6.11.91

1912 -- The S.S. Tartar is seen at the Sechelt wharf with Thomas Patrick O'Kelly and his two sons in the foreground. O'Kelly was Herbert Whitaker's partner for a short time in Sechelt.

Photographer unknown


6.11.92

1912 -- The S.S. Tartar is seen at the Sechelt wharf with Thomas Patrick O'Kelly and his two sons in the foreground. O'Kelly was Herbert Whitaker's partner for a short time in Sechelt.

Photographer unknown


6.11.93

circa 1912 -- The three men on the deck of S.S. Tartar are, l-r, Charlie Nordin, mate, centre man unknown, Sam Dawe, master of the Tartar.

Photographer unknown


6.11.94

1909-1913 -- The S.S. Tartar, owned by Herbert Whitaker's various companies, sailing in Trail Bay off Sechelt. Her name was changed to Hawser in 1928.

Photographer unknown. See also oversize photograph 6.15.175


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