Hyak (sternwheeler)

	Waterfront at Golden, British Columbia. Smaller steamer on left may be Hyak. Large steamer on right is probably Duchess
History
United States
Name	Hyak (CAN #100687)
Owner	Upper Columbia Navig. & Tramway Co.; Columbia River Lumber Co.
Operator	Frank P. Armstrong
Port of registry	Golden, BC
Route	Inland British Columbia on the Columbia River in the Columbia Valley
Launched	1892 at Golden, BC
Fate	Removed from service, 1906
General characteristics
Type	Inland passenger/freighter
Tonnage	39 gross tons; 24.6 registered tons
Length	81 ft (25 m)
Beam	11.2 ft (3 m)
Depth	3.9 ft (1 m) depth of hold
Installed power	twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, 6" bore by 24" stroke, 2.4 nominal horsepower, manufactured 1892 Jencks Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que.
Propulsion	sternwheel

Hyak was a sternwheel steamboat that operated in British Columbia on the Columbia River from 1892 to 1906. Hyak should not be confused with the Puget Sound propeller-driven steamboat also named Hyak. The name means "swift" or "fast" in the Chinook Jargon.

^ Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 53, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X

[Affleck-1] Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 53, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X

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