Ship Specifications

Owner:Canadian Pacific Railway, British Columbia Lake & River Service
Builder – Hull:Bertram Iron Works, Toronto, Ontario
Builder – Cabins:Canadian Pacific Railway, Nelson, B.C. (J. Bulger, Master Builder)
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

Port Side

TECHNICAL

Length:161.7 ft.
Breadth:30.1 ft.
Gross Tonnage:834.18
Depth of Hull:5.1 ft.
Cost (1898)$41,275
Registered Tonnage:525.94
Gross Tonnage:834.87
Launch Date:October 22, 1898
Registry Date:November 21, 1898
Entered Service:  December 7, 1898

Licensed to carry 250 passengers with freight or 400 passengers without freight.

Starboard Side

STERNWHEEL

Length of wheel bracket:21′ 8″
Width at end of bracket :19′ 5″
Diameter of wheel:19′ 4″
Length of paddle buckets: 
17′

Upper Deck

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

Approx. Maximum Speed:

14 miles per hour (22.5 kph)

Saloon Deck

BOILER

First (1898-1929):

Bertram Iron Works Toronto, Ontario

Second (1929-now):

Vulcan Iron Works Vancouver, BC

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)

Aft Section

Fore Section