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Registration #: 126613
Built: 1910 in
Victoria for Prince Rupert Skeena Transportation Company
Registration #: 126613
Hull length:
135.5 feet (exclusive of sternwheel)
Hull width: 28.5 feet
Hull depth: 5.2 feet
Gross weight: 533 tons
Registered weight: 340 tons
Engines: From
the S.S. MOUNT ROYAL #111778;
1902 Victoria Machy Depot, two horizontal high
pressure cylinders 14" wide x 60" long, rated at 13 NHP
INLANDER on the Skeena River
Image Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #E-01779
With business booming in the Skeena Valley, a group of Hazelton business owners formed the Prince Rupert Skeena Transportation Company. This company owned and operated the INLANDER to insure delivery of their supplies to Hazelton.
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After a month's delay, the INLANDER
arrived on the Skeena on June 1, 1910 under Captain Bucey's command and carried her first
load of freight up the river. She was quite homely to look at, but she proved well
suited for the fast water. She had locomotive-type engines instead of eccentric
action valves and hydraulic, rather than steam, steering gear; both improvements made her
very efficient.
INLANDER
at Kitselas Canyon
Image
Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #D-09561
The INLANDER was the
last sternwheeler to join the Skeena River trade, and the last one to leave as well.
At the end of the season in 1912, she pulled out from Hazelton, blew her whistle, and
steamed into history. Later she was pulled out at Port Essington and left to rot.
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INLANDER
on the Skeena River
Image
Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #A-02005
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