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S. S. Craigflower, Courtesy BC Maritime Museum

S. S. Craiglflower was built in 1908 at Victoria BC by/for Roy Troup. She operated in Victoria as a gas powered touring boat. Later she was purchased by James J Slocan of Port Essington for his Skeena River trade. She was under powered for the Skeena and was nicknamed the “Cauliflower”. Her first attempt up the Skeena River got her as far as Meanskinisht. For a while, she provided transportation services on the lower Skeena between Hole-In-The-Wall and Port Essington.

In 1909 she was stripped and sold to one of the canneries to be used as a scow on the lower river. She finally rotted on the beach at Port Essington.

Name, RegTonnageLen x Wid x DraftNHPEnginesPassengersInfo
Craiglflower, 12623315.5665.0×12.3×2.826×2420u/k

Crew:
Capt. Roy Troup
Capt. A. F Dougherty
Ed Deen, Engineer

S. S. Craigflower as a gas powered touring boat at 4th bridge on the Gorge at Victoria Courtesy BC Archives
S. S. Craigflower modified with a wood burning boiler and enlarged paddlewheel for work on the Skeena River Courtesy BC Maritime Museum
S. S. Craigflower on the Skeena River at Meanskinisht (Cedarvale), its furthest point up the river. Courtesy BC Maritime Museum
From the Omineca Herald, November 7, 1908
From the Omineca Herald, November 14, 1908

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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