SS Cardena
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For more than 35 years, from 1923 to 1958, the Union steamship Cardena sailed the British Columbia Coast, carrying passengers, groceries, dry goods, industrial cargo, mail and sundry other supplies to the 200 or so mining, logging and fishing communities that once dotted the province's coastline during the early years of the 20th century. On her return voyage, at the peak of the summer fishing season, Cardena routinely carried thousands of cases of canned salmon to the railheads at Prince Rupert and Vancouver for shipment across Canada and around the world. And so it went for the better part of half a century; a regular and reliable marine service (with only infrequent interruptions) that made Cardena a coastal institution, remembered with affection and regard by the countless men, women and children who inhabited those tiny outports in a bygone era.
Off Prospect Point, c. 1925 | |
History | |
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Name | SS Cardena |
Owner | Union Steamship Company of British Columbia |
Port of registry | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Route | Coastal British Columbia |
Ordered | October 1922 |
Builder | Napier & Miller, Old Kilpatrick |
Launched | March 22, 1923 |
Completed | May 3, 1923 |
Acquired | June 11, 1923 |
Maiden voyage | June 20, 1923 |
In service | 1923–1958 |
Out of service | 1958–1961 |
Identification | Official number:150977 |
Fate | Sold for scrap February, 1961 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger/freight steamship |
Tonnage | 1,559 GRT |
Length | 226 ft (69 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draught | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Installed power | 2,000 ihp (1,500 kW) |
Propulsion | Twin direct-acting, triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Capacity | 250 passengers; 350 tons cargo |