Steamboats of the Arrow Lakes
List of Vessels
Table:
Steamboats and other vessels on the Arrow Lakes, British Columbia[4][5]

Name

Type

Year Built

Where Built

Owners

Builder

Gross Tons

Reg. Tons

Length

Beam

Depth[6]

Engines

Disposition

Forty-Nine

sternwheeler

1865

Colville Landing, WA

Leonard White

Leonard White and C.W. Briggs

219

114'

20'

5'

12" by 48"

little used after 1870

Alpha

steam launch

1882

Hong Kong[7]

unknown

Dispatch

sternwheeler

1888

Revelstoke

Columbia Transportation Co.

37

23

54'

22'[8]

4.5'

8"x24"

Last used as snag boat, dismantled 1893, engines to Illecillewaet.

Marion

sternwheeler

circa 1888

Golden, BC[9]

Columbia Trans. Co.

Alexander Watson

15

9

61'

10.3'

3.6'

5.5" by 8"

sank on Kootenay Lake in 1901

Lytton

sternwheeler

1890

Revelstoke

C&KSN Co.

Alexander Watson

452

285

131'

25.5'

4.8'

16'x62"

Dismantled 1902 or 1904

Kootenai

sternwheeler

1885

Little Dalles

Henderson & McCartney

Paquet & Smith/E.G.Thomason

371

269

139'

22'

5'

14"x60"

Grounded and dismantled 1895

Columbia

sternwheeler

1891

Little Dalles, WA

Alexander Watson/Joseph Paquet

C&KSN Co.

534

378

153'

28'

6.3'

18"x72"

Burned, 1894, total loss

Illecillewaet

sternwheel scow

1892

Revelstoke

C&KSN Co.

Alexander Watson

98

62

78'

15'

4'

8"x24" (from Dispatch)

Sold for barge use, 1902

Nakusp

sternwheeler

1895

Nakusp, BC

C&KSN

Thomas J. Bulger

1083

832

171'

33.5'

6.3'

20"x72"

Destroyed by fire at dock at Arrowhead, BC, 23 Dec 1897

Trail

sternwheeler

1896

Nakusp, BC

C&KSN

Thomas J. Bulger

663

418

165'

31

4.9'

14" by 60"

destroyed by fire at Robson West, BC, June 1900

Columbia

steam tug

1896[10]

Nakusp, BC

C&KSN

Thomas J. Bulger

50

34

77'

14.5'

6.4'

9" / 18" by 12"

In service until 1947, sold 1948, later disposition unknown

Kootenay

sternwheeler

1897

Nakusp, BC

Canadian Pacific Railway

Thomas J. Bulger

1117

732

184'

33

6.2'

18" by 72"

Used as houseboat after about 1920, eventually abandoned below Nakusp.

Rossland

sternwheeler

1897

Nakusp, BC

C.P.R.

Thomas J. Bulger

884

532

183'

29'

7'

22" by 96"

sank 1917, raised, but proved to be unsalvageable, and sold for use as landing barge.

Minto

sternwheeler

1898

Nakusp, BC[11]

C.P.R.

J. M. Bulger

830

522

162'

30'

5.1'

16" by 72"

abandoned on beach 1955, fittings and sternwheel stripped, deliberately burned August 1, 1968, after restoration efforts failed.

Revelstoke

sternwheeler

1902

Nakusp, BC

Columbia River Steamship Co.

309

179

127'

22.7'

4.3'

12" by 60"

Destroyed by fire at Comaplix, April 1915, possibly arson.

Whatshan

steam tug

1909

Nakusp, BC

C.P.R.

106

72

90'

19'

8.1'

12" / 26" by 18"

Out of service 1919, scrapped 1920

Bonnington

sternwheeler

1911

Nakusp, BC[11]

C.P.R.

J. M. Bulger

1700

1010

203'

39

7.5'

16"/ 34" by 96"

Dismantled 1950s

Nipigonian

motor launch (steel hull)

1929

Penetang, Ont.[12]

10

7

40'

9.5'

4.8'

gasoline

Only used from February 1 to late April 1948

Widget

diesel tug

Vancouver, BC

Ivan Horie[13]

9

6

36.5'

9.5'

4.8

diesel

Columbia[14]

motor pass. tug

1928[15]

Vancouver, BC

C.P.R.

22

15

50'

11.4

5.6'

diesel

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