SS Jubilee

SS Jubilee
History
Canada
Owner: Thomas Shorts
Builder:
  • Thomas Shorts
  • John Hamilton
Launched: 22 September 1887
Fate: Sank Winter 1889–1890
General characteristics
Length: 30 ft (9.1 m)
Beam: 8 ft (2.4 m)

SS Jubilee was the second steamship on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada, owned and operated by Captain Thomas Shorts.[1] She was built by Shorts and carpenter John Hamilton in 1887 while they were waiting for a new boiler to come in for their first steamship, SS Mary Victoria Greenhow, which needed new machinery.[2] When it arrived, they decided to put the new boiler in the new 30 feet (9.1 m) by 8 feet (2.4 m) Jubilee instead and they put Mary Victoria Greenhow's engine in Jubilee as well.[3] She was launched at the Okanagan Landing shipyard at 3:30 p.m. on September 22, 1887.[4] Jubilee took about two weeks per round trip on the lake.[5] A gold strike on Granite Creek in the Similkameen River in 1889 created business for Jubilee and Shorts built a barge to help her. However, the strike didn't last long and the barge was beached.[6] Jubilee was also short-lived, as she froze in ice at Okanagan Landing during a cold spell in the winter of 1889–1890. She sank and in the spring, her machinery was put in Shorts' new barge, City of Vernon.[7] The engine was reinstalled in several more ships, and the retired engine was used in a shingle mill for cutting firewood at Trinity Valley starting in 1906. Finally, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Worth of Vernon, British Columbia, who had owned and used it for many years, donated it to the Vernon Museum and Archives in November 1957.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hatfield, Harley R. (1992). "Commercial Boats of the Okanagan". Okanagan history. Fifty-sixth report of the Okanagan Historical Society. pp. 20–33. Retrieved 2 Aug 2015.
  2. ↑ McDougall, J. R. (1955). "Early Shipping on Okanagan Lake". The nineteenth report of the Okanagan Historical Society. pp. 133–135. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Norris, L. (1954). "The First Steamboat of Okanagan Lake". The eighteenth report of the Okanagan Historical Society. pp. 39–46. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Weeks, Joseph Burrow (1931). "The Mary Victoria Greenhow". Fifth annual report of the Okanagan Historical and Natural History Society. p. 5. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Simms, Charles D. (1935). "From Newfoundland to Okanagan". The sixth report of the Okanagan Historical Society. p. 193. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Sismey, Eric (1965). "Thomas Dolman Shorts". The twenty-ninth report of the Okanagan Historical Society. pp. 145–149. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  7. ↑ Weeks, Joseph Burrow (1935). "Steamboating on Okanagan Lake". The sixth report of the Okanagan Historical Society. p. 224. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "First Boat's Engine Home to Rest". The twenty-second report of the Okanagan Historical Society. 1958. p. 29. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
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