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The SS Sicamous is the largest surviving stern wheeler in BC. The ship is open as a museum and wedding venue, and is a must-see attraction when visiting the Okanagan.
An old Canadian Pacific Great Lakes passenger steamer moored, until May of 2012, in the Kalamazoo River at Douglas, Michigan. A HDR photo.
The SS Moyie was built in 1898 for the Canadian Pacific Railway. It carried passengers and freight on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia for 59 years. Today it is the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler, and has been beautifully restored and open for tours in Kaslo, BC.
Coastal steamer deliberately wrecked on a sandbank at Brancaster and used as target practice by the RAF in WW2.
Not pictured: little sign saying TURN BACK IMMEDIATELY and giving dire warnings.
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Come join our Facebook group/club. Thousands of shared photos from ex crew & passengers of the many Chandris Lines Ships :) Find us at this Facebook address or search for any part of the address :)
SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853. She was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship making her one of the most technologically advanced ships for her time. She wa the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1845, in 14 days.
When launched in 1843, Great Britain was by far the largest vessel ever built. However, her protracted construction time of six years and high cost led to her owners being forced out of business in 1846.
In 1852 she was sold for salvage and repaired, later carrying thousands of emigrants to Australia until being converted to all-sail in 1881.
Three years later she was retired to the Falkland Islands where she was used as a warehouse, quarantine ship and coal hulk until she was scuttled in 1937.
In 1970, Sir Jack Arnold Hayward, OBE (1923-2015) paid for the vessel to be raised and repaired enough for her to be towed north through the Atlantic back to the United Kingdom, and returned to the Bristol dry dock where she had been built 127 years earlier.
Regarding the installation of the monument sign for the now gone K Mart at 890 Blossom Hill Road (now Kohl's)
The SS Moyie was built in 1898 for the Canadian Pacific Railway. It carried passengers and freight on Kootenay Lake in British Columbia for 59 years. Today it is the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler, and has been beautifully restored and open for tours in Kaslo, BC.