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Port side section

Length: 161.7 ft
Breadth: 30.1 ft
Gross Tonnage: 834.18
Depth of Hull: 5.1 ft
Cost (1898): $41,275
Licensed to carry 250 passengers with freight or 400 passengers without freight.

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Starboard side section
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Upper deck

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Saloon deck

Summary Statistics of the S.S. Moyie
Official Number: 107454
Dimensions: 161.7 x 30.1 x 5.1 (feet and tenths)
Registered Tonnage: 525.94
Gross Tonnage: 834.87
Launch Date: October 22, 1898
Registry Date: November 21, 1898
Entered Service: December 7, 1898
Owner: Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia Lake & River Service
Builder:
Hull:
Bertram Iron Works, Toronto, Ontario
 
Cabins:
Canadian Pacific Railway, Nelson, B.C. (J. Bulger, Master Builder)
Engines:
Builder:
Bertram Iron Works, Toronto, Ontario
 
Type:
Two single-cylinder high pressure horizontal, non-condensing, piston valves and piston cut-off valves over main valves
 
Dimensions:
16" x 72"; 17.06 nhp; 450 ihp
Boiler:
First
(1898-1929)
Bertram Iron Works, Toronto, Ontario
 
Second (1929-now)
Vulcan Iron Works, Vancouver, BC
Boiler Specifications:
Length:
23' 7" (7.03 m)
Length w/ smoke box:
27' 1" (8.25 m)
Length of tubes:
14' 0" (4.23 m)
Diameter of tubes:
2 1/2" (6.35 cm)
Number of tubes:
165
Number of stay tubes:
36
Heating surface of boiler:
2,050 sq. ft.
Working pressure:
160 psi. (1103 KPa)
Approx. Maximum Speed: 14 miles per hour (22.5 kph)
Sternwheel Specifications:
Length of wheel bracket:
21' 8"
Width at end of bracket: 19' 5"
Diameter of wheel:
19' 4"
Length of paddle buckets: 17'



 

 

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