S.S. PORT SIMPSON

Built:  1908 in Victoria by Alex Watson Jr.
Registration #:  122390

Hull length:  136.6 feet (exclusive of sternwheel)
Hull width:  30.4 feet
Hull depth:  5.4 feet
Gross weight:  607.21 tons
Registered weight:  379.23 tons
Engines:  1908 Polson, two horizontal high pressure cylinders 15" wide x 72" long, rated at 15 NHP

PORT SIMPSON on the Skeena River
Image Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #B-06931

The PORT SIMPSON was built for the Hudson's Bay Company as a replacement for the MOUNT ROYAL.  She worked the Skeena and Stikine Rivers from 1909-1911, then was laid up at Port Simpson in 1912.   In 1916, she was recommissioned to work the Stikine River.  She was broken up at Port Simpson in 1917, and her machinery and fittings went to a Mackenzie River steamer.

PORT SIMPSON passing Hazelton
Image Courtesy of BC Archives - Detail of Call #A-00472

This digital collection was produced under contract to the
   SchoolNet Digital Collections program, Industry Canada. Revised:  02/15/99