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SS Columbia is the last remaining excursion steamship from the turn of the 20th century in existence, the second to last being her running mate and sister ship SS Ste. Claire which burned in 2018. Both were designed by Frank E. Kirby and Louis O. Keil, interior designer.
SS Columbia (1880–1907) was a cargo and passenger steamship that was owned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and later the San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company. Columbia was constructed in 1880 by the John Roach & Sons shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. [7]
SS Columbia, a British ocean liner renamed Belgic in 1917, then Belgenland again in 1923, before becoming the American ship Columbia in 1935, scrapped 1936; SS Columbia (1920), a Canadian steam tugboat serving Lower Arrow Lake until 1948; SS Columbia (1930), a Dutch passenger/cargo ship of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij ...
The first three steamships constructed for Pacific Mail were the SS California, of 1050 tons, the SS Oregon, of 1250 tons, and the SS Panama, of 1058 tons. [3] The company initially believed it would be transporting agricultural goods from the West Coast, but just as operations began, gold was found in the Sierra Nevada, and business boomed almost from the start.
SS Ste. Claire is a steamer located in Detroit, Michigan. Built in 1910, she was one of the last propeller-driven excursion steamers to be operated on the Great Lakes. She was declared a US National Historic Landmark in 1992. In 2018, a devastating fire destroyed the upper decks, leaving only the steel structure.
SS Admiral (1907) SS Admiral Sampson; SS Adriatic (1856) SS Aenos (1944) Ajax (1864 ship) SS Alabama; SS Alameda (1883) Alaska Pacific Steamship Company; USAHS Algonquin; PS Alice Dean (1863) SS Alkimos; SS Almeria Lykes (1940) SS Amasa Stone; Amboy (ship) SS America (1939) American Queen; SS Ancon; Ancon (1867 ship) PS Anglia; Anglo-Norman ...
SS Columbia was a 8,292 GRT Ocean liner, built for the Anchor Line as a passenger and cargo liner that was launched on 22 February 1902 and went on her first voyage on 17 May 1902 in the North Atlantic Ocean. [1] During World War I on 20 November 1914, she was taken over and was rebuilt into an armed merchant cruiser named Columbella.
The Union Steamship Company was bought out by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company in 1948. The SS Noronic fire in Toronto forced the Federal Maritime Department to change marine regulations regarding wooden passenger vessels, while the nature of the BC coastal fleet changed more to freight and a tug and barge operation.