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| When/where built: Portland 1873 Owner: Data: 125 feet long, 25 feet beam Status: Wrecked on Stikine River, 60 miles south of Glenora, May 17, 1878. "The river steamer Beaver, from Wrangel, with thirty-two passengers and a small amount of gold arrived on Tuesday at Victoria, and the steamer Isabel, also from Wrangel, with about 175 passengers and a large amount of treasure, arrived Wednesday, News from the mines is good. The finding of bill diggings on Thibert creek is confirmed. They are supposed to be very rich. Diggings are also reported on Torceau (spelling?) river by one of the prospecting parties, but the extent and locality are unknown. --reprinted from San Francisco Post, Nov. 9th" The Sitka Post, 12/10/1876, 2:1 "The Stickeen River and its Glaciers" ..The excitement of the Grand Rapids over, the Beaver was again jogging along comfortably, and with a nod of congratulation at the captain, we backed ourselves down the steep stair-way to the saloon deck.... Scribner's April 1879 VF Stikine River "The Am. Str. "Beaver" came up from the Columbia in 1877, the next year she struck a rock and became a total loss." Wrangell and the Gold of the Cassiar, C.L. Andrews pp49 "...was reported rather slow. She ran between Portland and Astoria until June 1876 when she was sold to Uriah Nelson for the Stikine River trade during the Cassiar excitement. Captain J.D. Tackaberry was her first skipper on the river and was with her until 1878 when Captain Nat. H. Lane, Jr., took charge. The Beaver was wrecked on a rock 60 miles below Glenora on May 17, 1878. The machinery was salvaged but otherwise she was a total loss." Stikine River, AK NW Publishing |