Name/Title
Canadian SteamboatsEntry/Object ID
2017.3.001Description
Steamer Rapid Prince
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company (R. & O.)
Steel twin-screw passenger vessel
Built at Toronto ON by Toronto Shipyards, Hull 13
Launched 1910
210’ LOA, 196’6” LBP, 37’ beam, 9’8” depth
5 decks, coal-fired boiler, triple expansion engines, 900 IHP
Enrolled at Montreal QC
196.6 x 37.0 x 8.2, 1384 GT, 955 NT Can 130418 to:
Entered service 1911
Entire career spent running the St. Lawrence River rapids from Prescott ON to Montreal QC, returning to Prescott through the pre-Seaway canals.
Fleet merged 1913 into Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal QC
Rebuilt 1929 at Lauzon QC
Rapids service discontinued at the end of the 1949 season when vessel’s route partner str. Kingston, which served the Lake Ontario ports to Prescott, was retired. Laid up at Kingston ON and did not operate again.
Scrapped 1951 at Hamilton ON by Steel Company of Canada
Steamer Princess Victoria
Captain James W. Troup,
Built by Swann, Hunter & Company, Newcastle, England and powered by Hawthorne, Leslie and Company Limited 5,800 horsepower triple expansion engines fed by six boilers she was a speedy 20 knot 300-foot, 1,943-ton steamer of great elegance and permitted to carry 1,000 passengers. Due to a pending strike in England, the wooden superstructure and passenger accommodations were completed at the British Columbia Marine Railways Company Limited in Esquimalt where the most of the CPR's repair work was done. She entered service between Victoria and Vancouver late on August 13, 1903, following a three-hour cruise in perfect weather with two hundred and fifty guests during which time she raced along at 19 knots!
Photographs taken of post cards.
