Lytton (sternwheeler)
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This article is about the lake steamer in British Columbia. For other uses, see Lytton (disambiguation).
Lytton was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Arrow Lakes and the Columbia River in southeastern British Columbia and northeastern Washington from 1890 to 1904.
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Lytton | |
History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Lytton[1][2][3][4] |
Owner | Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Co.; Canadian Pacific Railway |
Route | Arrow Lakes |
Builder | Alexander Watson |
Cost | $38,000[4][5] |
Laid down | December, 1889 at Revelstoke, BC |
Maiden voyage | July 2, 1890 |
In service | 1890 |
Out of service | 1904 |
Identification | CAN 94905 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Type | inland shallow-draft boat passenger/freighter |
Tonnage | 452 gross; 285 net |
Length | 131 ft (40 m) |
Beam | 25.5 ft (8 m) |
Depth | 4.8 ft (1 m) depth of hold |
Installed power | twin steam engines manufactured by Albion Iron Works of Victoria, British Columbia, twin single-cylinder, horizontally mounted, 16" bore by 54" stroke, 16 hp (12 kW) nominal |
Propulsion | sternwheel |
Speed | 12.3 miles per hour average (varied greatly depending on river currents) |
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