S.S. Casca
S. S. Casca was built in Victoria in 1898 by the Esquimalt Marine Railway Co. for the Casca Trading Trans. Co. With engines from Toronto and a boiler from New York, she was built to take miners and freight from Wrangell to Telegraph Creek as a connection to the proposed railway from Telegraph Creek to Atlin. When the railway was not built, the vessel was useless to the company. While returning to Victoria, Capt. Hickey stopped in at Port Essington on July 31, 1899. On August 8, 1899 she made her first trip up the Skeena River to Hazelton and took the International Boundary Commission to Hazelton. By Cunningham’s Diary, this was the only trip Casca made up the Skeena. She came back down river and went south from Port Essington to be sold in Victoria.
In 1901 Otto R. Bremner and the Adair Bros. of Dawson owned and ran her on upper Yukon River and that is where she stayed.
| Name, Reg | Tonnage | Len x Wid x Draft | NHP | Engines | Passengers | Info |
| Casca, C-103919 | 589.73 | 140 x 30.5 x 5.0 | 17 | 16×72 | 150 | u/k |
Captains:
Hickey
Registry Entry for the Casca courtesy Library and Archives Canada:
Sources:
Armstrong, Cliff Sternwheelers on the Skeena , 2001
Bennett, Norma V Pioneer Legacy: Chronicles of the Lower Skeena River, 2001
Macdonald, Joseph F. Macdonald’s Steamboats & Steamships of the Pacific Northwest.
O’Neill, Wiggs Steamboat Days on the Skeena River, 1963
Wright, E. W. Lewis & Drydens Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, 1967.
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