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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 3, 2012 15:41:22 GMT -8
On board mostly-inside views of the SS Sicamous. - at Penticton on July 18, 2012. Compilation of 5 video tours: - please excuse the sound of my wheezing breathing in the videos. ;D I wasn't dying, I just always sound like that....haha. 1)forward end of freight deck. 2)forward parts of Saloon & Texas decks. 3 inside & outside of Saloon & Texas decks. 4) walk down the inside of the Saloon deck. - includes an unexpected glimpse of the men's washroom. I was just exploring the ship, not knowing what was inside each room... ;D 5) the wheelhouse of the SS Naramata, the tug that's next to the Sicamous in the Penticton park. ------------------------ Stills: The forward outside part of freight deck (forecastle?)  Inside forward areas: - top is Texas deck: Ladies saloon - bottom is Saloon deck: Men's smoking room  The Ladies saloon on the Texas deck  The men's smoking room on the Saloon deck  Ventilation screens, above stateroom doors  Dining room, midships on Saloon deck  Ladies observation lounge at aft end of saloon deck  Close up of the ceiling fine detail:  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 3, 2012 18:55:08 GMT -8
Some interesting memorabilia on board the SS Sicamous.   Remember to check under your pillow. ;D  |
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Post by Queen of Nanaimo Teen on Sept 4, 2012 13:41:27 GMT -8
You're in my homeland Mike! I've been on the Sicamous many times when I go to visit my grandparents in Penticton. It never gets old for me!
I think my favorite part of her is the clerestory windows. Very beautiful.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 4, 2012 14:27:00 GMT -8
You're in my homeland Mike! I've been on the Sicamous many times when I go to visit my grandparents in Penticton. It never gets old for me! I think my favorite part of her is the clerestory windows. Very beautiful. I also had grandparents in Penticton, and we'd visit a few times each year, in the 1970s and 1980s. So I grew up always seeing the Sicamous at the end of the beach, but I never went inside until this summer.  - Oh well, at least I finally did it before it is too late. You never know when they'll run out of funds for keeping it open to the public. (my mom used to live near Mabel & Sugar Lakes, with her parents, way way back in the day). |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 5, 2012 8:20:23 GMT -8
Outside deck views of the Sick Moose, seen at Penticton BC on July 18, 2012. Forward end of freight deck  View from forward end of saloon deck  Wheelhouse (access is off-limits to public)  Saloon deck stern, looking at the windows for the Ladies observation lounge.  ...and then I turn around to see the paddle-wheel.  Texas deck bow, looking at windows for Ladies forward saloon.  Starboard side of the Texas deck  Aft view from end of the Texas deck. Looking at ceiling of the Saloon deck's dining room. - note the hog-posts on the roof.  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 5, 2012 8:54:34 GMT -8
The steel-hulled, steam tug SS Naramata was built in 1914, same year as the SS Sicamous. - The Naramata tug worked until 1967. She is now permanently moored in the dirt, beside the SS Sicamous at Penticton's Okanagan Lake waterfront. I saw her on July 18, 2012. First, a Robert Turner sketch, from his book The Sicamous & The Naramata: Steamboat Days in the Okanagan." 1995 - Sono Nis Press.  - in the left-background, you can see the wheelhouse of the Sicamous Society's 3rd ship, the old CN Tug No.6  Views from inside the cage:    ---------------- On-board outside views: - port-side looking forward  - port-side looking aft    =================== And here's the recent-news page from the website of the Society sssicamous.ca/summer-2012-has-been-outstanding/ |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 5, 2012 11:42:21 GMT -8
Interior of SS Naramata steam tug, at Penticton, BC - seen on July 18, 2012. First, the information plaque at the lakefront park  A crew cabin  Must be the wheelhouse  Galley   Fire duties. I like how the form template is for a CP "Princess" ship.  ------------------ |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 5, 2012 13:31:38 GMT -8
CN Tug No.6, part of the collection of ships held by the SS Sicamous Society in Penticton, BC. - it's water-moored in Okanagan Lake, next to where the Naramata & Sicamous are land-moored. Seen by me on July 18, 2012   ================ Here's a YouTube video of the tug's move down the lake to Penticton, after it was purchased by the Sicamous Society. From my Googling research, I've learned that she was launched in 1948. Here is a gold-mine of newspaper clippings about Okanagan Lake working ships: - each of the clipping headlines links to a PDF of that clipping. www.okanagan.net/ocarc/page6.htm |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2012 15:58:00 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 30, 2012 20:36:20 GMT -8
The Samson V was the last in a line of steam-driven snag-pulling vessels that plied the Fraser River and Burrard Inlet for four years less a century, under the control of the Federal Government. The Sampson V is now a museum ship on the river, located permanently next to the New Westminster Quay (I think they call it 'River Market' now), and the only other survivor of the Samson dynasty is the Samson IV, also moored on the Fraser River, but in Surrey. She isn't in the best condition anymore, but she's still recognizable. She's viewable in Google Street View here: goo.gl/maps/gdDaRAs an odd and interesting footnote, the former BC Ferry 'Quillayute' (also worked for Black Ball) was also named Samson IV for a time. Not sure if there's a connection. EDIT: Just a fun fact about the Samsons and other boats on the Fraser... Back in the late 1800s/early 1900s, competition on the Fraser was very stiff to have the fastest vessel on the water. Skippers of the ships would often make risky modifications to their ship's boilers to limit the amount of steam that could puff out of the stack, so the pressure in the boiler would rise and the ship would chug along faster, but these hot-rod-mods often led to dangerously high pressure in the boilers, causing explosions that killed many crewmen and caused the losses of many ships on the river. Sometimes, crews would go to such lengths as throwing gear overboard and stripping down their ships as much as they could to lessen the weight of their vessels so they'd move through the water faster. The second Samson experienced one of these boiler explosions, and she and her captain drifted down the Fraser from around Harrison all the way to Mission before being finally intercepted by a tug, which towed her safely to shore. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2012 20:42:48 GMT -8
Thank u for the litte bit of history about her. She was nice looking vessel inside and outside.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 30, 2012 21:05:45 GMT -8
Just a fun fact about the Samsons and other boats on the Fraser... Back in the late 1800s/early 1900s, competition on the Fraser was very stiff to have the fastest vessel on the water. Skippers of the ships would often make risky modifications to their ship's boilers to limit the amount of steam that could puff out of the stack, so the pressure in the boiler would rise and the ship would chug along faster, but these hot-rod-mods often led to dangerously high pressure in the boilers, causing explosions that killed many crewmen and caused the losses of many ships on the river. Sometimes, crews would go to such lengths as throwing gear overboard and stripping down their ships as much as they could to lessen the weight of their vessels so they'd move through the water faster. The second Samson experienced one of these boiler explosions, and she and her captain drifted down the Fraser from around Harrison all the way to Mission before being finally intercepted by a tug, which towed her safely to shore. This is cool. I was just reading about that stuff in my BC / Yukon Sternwheelers book. Those safety-valve jamming guys were crazy... |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 26, 2013 20:36:56 GMT -8
A YouTube video that I found, showing the Moyie arriving at Proctor (near Harrop, on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake).
- video also has some glimpses of the Nasookin at the wharf.
Movie was shot in the 1920's by the Reverend George Kinney.
- I've been to the lake named for Rev. Kinney (so has WCK). But that's in another part of BC (in the shadow of Mt. Robson)
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 13, 2014 6:46:25 GMT -8
Sternwheeler Evelyn (aka Norcom) abandoned on Hootalinqua (Shipyard) Island in 1913, Yukon River just below confluence with Teslin R - 8 August 2014. Seen during canoe trip down the Teslin/Yukon rivers between Johnson's Crossing & Carmacks, Yukon. For more see: sightsandsites.ca/rivers/site/hootalinqua-island © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 14, 2014 20:41:08 GMT -8
Sternwheeler SS Keno of B.Y.N.Co. @ Dawson City, Yukon - 14 August 2014. Maintained by Parks Canada along the Yukon River shoreline, in Dawson. The Yukon River is where this vessel spent her working life. Tomorrow I will take a tour of her while we wait for improved weather in the Tombstone Mountains.... www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/yt/klondike/natcul/sskeno.aspx © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr
Perhaps a moderator could change the title of this thread to "BC (& Yukon) Lake & River Stern Wheelers", thank you... |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 15, 2014 6:20:02 GMT -8
Perhaps a moderator could change the title of this thread to "BC (& Yukon) Lake & River Stern Wheelers" thank you... Thanks for that suggestion - done. Thanks for your photos and stories from your Yukon trip. |
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 20, 2014 20:14:42 GMT -8
Stern wheeler graveyard across the Yukon River & a little down stream from Dawson City, Yukon - 19 August 2014. I have read that the remains of seven vessels can be seen here, although I was able to count only four while I explored around the site. Two still display almost legible names - the Julia B & the Seattle No 3. Silverdale, on the Fraser River, may someday look just like this.. .
dawsoncity.ca/attraction/paddlewheel-graveyard/ © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr |
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Post by WettCoast on Aug 23, 2014 21:51:19 GMT -8
More on the SS Keno, this time a video with archival footage from the CBC ...
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Post by Starsteward on Aug 24, 2014 1:31:56 GMT -8
More on the SS Keno, this time a video with archival footage from the CBC ... Excellent piece of history! Thanks for the posting W.C. To have the CBC Reporter play such a vital role in the Keno's last voyage is, well....just so damned Canadian eh?  |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 14, 2014 21:00:01 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 14, 2014 21:09:27 GMT -8
Lovely. In the right background, is that part of another ship's houseworks? ie. a salon lounge? - maybe of Nasookin? |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 14, 2014 21:35:16 GMT -8
Lovely. In the right background, is that part of another ship's houseworks? ie. a salon lounge? - maybe of Nasookin? That would be the aft 'ladies lounge' from another Kootenay Lake sternwheeler named the Kuskanook. It was originally a Great Northern boat (I have to check on that, using R. Turner's book). Apparently much of that boat lies submerged just below the waterline in the west arm of Kootenay Lake. |
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 3, 2014 21:22:11 GMT -8
Lovely. In the right background, is that part of another ship's houseworks? ie. a salon lounge? - maybe of Nasookin? That would be the aft 'ladies lounge' from another Kootenay Lake sternwheeler named the Kuskanook. It was originally a Great Northern boat (I have to check on that, using R. Turner's book). Apparently much of that boat lies submerged just below the waterline in the west arm of Kootenay Lake. Update: The Kuskanook was a CPR boat, not GN as I was thinking before I had a chance to check Robert Turner's excellent book Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs (an illustrated history of the CPR's BC Lake & River Service). Now, for more photos of the SS Moyie; tonight exterior shots, tomorrow the interior. All photos were shot in Kaslo, BC, on the 7th of October 2014. 
Replica of old Kaslo railway station at the SS Moyie National Historic Site. This building is apparently a replica of the CPR station here that once served both rail and boat passengers & freight.
An alternate crop of the photo I posted a few weeks ago (see above). That red & white flag is not Canada's 'new' maple leaf flag, but, rather, the CPR's checkered house flag, widely used on their ocean-going & coastal ships, as well as their inland vessels way back when.
Paddle wheel view, with Kootenay Lake to the left, where the Moyie served for almost 60 years. B-T-W, that flag at the top of the pole just ahead of the paddle wheel is Canada's old flag, the 'Red Ensign', which is what would have been flying from that flag pole during all the years that the Moyie was in service.
 Another view from the aft end showing the Moyie 'along side'.
A peak inside the freight door on the starboard side. The model T Ford gives a hint of what is to come.
 Forward profile on the main (freight) deck, SS Moyie. There's a better look at that house flag.
All photos © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 5, 2014 20:47:35 GMT -8
Okay, its two days since my last post on the SS Moyie at Kaslo, so a second instalment tonight; this time the main deck, freight, cars (the car deck?), the boiler & propulsion machinery, etc. These were all taken about a month ago on 7 October. 
Coal-fired boiler located on forward part of main deck. This contrasts with the Yukon River stern wheelers I have seen that burned endless amounts of cord wood. I wonder if any boats of this type were fired using oil?
Machinery Space - Main deck aft
Machinery Space with starboard reciprocating steam engine (on the left) that drove the paddle wheel via a long connecting 'arm'. There was, of course, another one of these on the port side.
'Car deck' with 1927 model T Ford. We had a peak at this from the outside, in my last instalment.
'Car' (freight) deck with 1919 Ford TT delivery van. This antique truck came from Texada Island, apparently.
Express Room, main (freight) deck
Kitchen with Chinese cook mannequin. I did not see a 'dumb waiter' but I expect that there was one to get food up one deck to the dining salon.
For the next instalment (tomorrow?) we go to the upper decks and take a look at the fabulous work that has been done to show off this vessel in the way that she looked 'in her prime'. All photos © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 8, 2014 19:32:31 GMT -8
Instalment # 3 of my photo tour of the SS Moyie. There will be a forth instalment, featuring the interior public spaces on the main passenger deck (saving the best for last)... 
One of the stairways leading between the freight & main passenger deck
An ordinary stateroom, # 6. These were arranged around the perimeter of part of the interior public space on the main passenger deck, something found it seems on a lot of sternwheelers.
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Bridal Suite (or the Duke of Connaught's cabin), main passenger deck
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 Another look at the Bridal Suite.
Note the Victola phonograph in the corner: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company
 Captain's quarters, just aft of the Pilot House. This, & other officers' quarters, are on the deck above the main passenger level.
 Pilot House, smaller & plainer than the pilot house aboard the Klondike II that I saw a few years back in Whitehorse, Yukon.
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