Life Jacket
Object
1993.1.2
Steamer Casca life preserver, circa 1936, made of canvas and kapok.
The Casca was described as a wooden sternwheeler, 180 feet long, with 36.5-foot beam and 5.6-foot hold. Her gross tonnage was 1,300.27, registered as 1,033.32 tons. She had one deck, was of carvel build, with a straight head and transom stern, and had 5 bulkheads.
The machinery for the Casca was salvaged from the Casca No.2. The engine room was 33.5 feet long, housing the horizontal high-pressure engines which had been built ca.1898 by Albion Iron Works of Victoria, and a steel locomotive boiler built in 1907 by Polson Iron Works of Toronto that had originally been installed in the Yukon River sternwheeler Lightning. The engine cylinders were 16 inch diameter and had a 72-inch stroke, developing 17 NHP, 450 IHP.
Over the winter of 1936-1937, the Casca was partially constructed at Vancouver for the British Yukon Navigation Company (BYN), with pre-fab units then shipped to Whitehorse for assembly; most of the boat was then built at Whitehorse. Licenced for 180 passengers in 1937, she was the plushest ship on the upper river, used for most BYN tourist runs.
http://explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa030801a.htm
There were three Cascas: Casca (1898-1911), Casca No.2 (1911-1936)
Casca No.3 (1937-1952)
The machinery for the Casca was salvaged from the Casca No.2. The engine room was 33.5 feet long, housing the horizontal high-pressure engines which had been built ca.1898 by Albion Iron Works of Victoria, and a steel locomotive boiler built in 1907 by Polson Iron Works of Toronto that had originally been installed in the Yukon River sternwheeler Lightning. The engine cylinders were 16 inch diameter and had a 72-inch stroke, developing 17 NHP, 450 IHP.
Over the winter of 1936-1937, the Casca was partially constructed at Vancouver for the British Yukon Navigation Company (BYN), with pre-fab units then shipped to Whitehorse for assembly; most of the boat was then built at Whitehorse. Licenced for 180 passengers in 1937, she was the plushest ship on the upper river, used for most BYN tourist runs.
http://explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa030801a.htm
There were three Cascas: Casca (1898-1911), Casca No.2 (1911-1936)
Casca No.3 (1937-1952)