S.S. CONVEYOR

Built:  1908 in Victoria by G.A. MacNicholl
Registration #:  126250

Hull length:  137.5 feet  (exclusive of sternwheel)
Hull width:  31.4 feet
Hull depth:  5.4 feet
Gross weight:  583.20 tons
Registered weight:  379.67 tons
Engines:  1909 Polson, two horizontal high pressure
cylinders 15" wide x 72" long, rated at 15 NHP

CONVEYOR on the Skeena River
Image Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #F-09626

One of five workhorses on the Skeena built primarily to haul railway construction supplies for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.  In 1911, she sailed to Victoria where her machinery was installed in the S.S. CONVEYOR #130885, which hauled railway supplies on the Upper Fraser River.  When the construction work was completed there, the CONYEOR was hauled out on the ways at Prince George, where her machinery was sold to local sawmills and her hull left to rot.

CONVEYOR near Terrace
Image Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #C-05491