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Conserving, Preserving and Protecting the Maritime Heritage Lying beneath
British Columbia's Coastal and Inland Waters
SPECIAL PROJECTS
The Susan Sturges Project
by Peter Ross
Registered in San Francisco, the Susan Sturges was a small schooner trading between the Queen Charlotte Islands and San Francisco in the early 1850s. She participated in British Columbia's first gold rush in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1851. The following year, about 150 Haida from the village of Masset on Graham Island attacked and pillaged her.
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SS Beaver
The Beaver is British Columbia's most historic known shipwreck. In 1888, she ran up on the rocks at Stanley Park's Prospect Point. For four years she perched there, until wake from the steamer Yosemite washed her away.Click here to view
Bedwell Bay Mystery Wreck
In 1994, the UASBC conducted research and produced a scale drawing of the Bedwell Bay Mystery Wreck as part of a report entitled Vancouver's Undersea Heritage. Author David Stone wrote that, based on the material record, the wreck was probably one of the few remaining examples of a historic turn of the century sealing schooner.Click here to view
SS Del Norte
On the morning of October 21, 1868, while on her way home to Victoria from Nanaimo, the 190 foot long sidewheel steamer Del Norte ran into fog, bad luck, and Canoe Reef in that order. She clung there for three weeks until one of Porlier Pass' notorious southeast gales swept her off the reef.Click here to view