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SS Venture (IV)

Other Names
later: Hsin Kong S0
Vessel Type
Steamship » Screw steamer
Ship Dates
Date built: 1910
Launched: February 16 1910
End date: 1947
Builder
Napier & Miller
Owner or managing owner(s)
Boscowitz & Co.
Union Steamship Company
Vessel Description

She carried 186 passengers on the cannery run to Skeena and Nass Rivers via Prince Rupert BC. In 1947 she was destroyed by fire at Hong Kong.

Source: Nauticapedia: Venture (IV)

Related Collections
Fonds: Captain John Park fonds
File: VMM Photograph Album collection » Local marine scenes
File: VMM Archives collection » Series 2: Personal papers » John McMaster papers
Collection: Union Steamship Company collection
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Related Archival Items
textual records: Captain's logbook for the SS Venture (VMM44.087)
textual records: Engineer's log book for the SS Venture (VMM44.086)
textual records: Lightkeeper's logbook for Merry Island (VMM44.092)
textual records: Register of Seamen Shipped, vol. 6 (VMM05.06)
textual records: Register of Seamen Shipped, vol. 8 (VMM05.08)
textual records: Register of Seamen Shipped, vol. 33 (VMM05.33)
textual records: Register of Seamen Shipped, vol. 9 (VMM05.09)
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