&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Lytton_(sternwheeler).jpg) Lytton
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada | |
| Name | Lytton[1][2][3][4] |
| Owner | Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Co.; Canadian Pacific Railway |
| Route | Arrow Lakes |
| Builder | Alexander Watson |
| Cost | $38,000[4][5] |
| Laid down | December, 1889 at Revelstoke, BC |
| Maiden voyage | July 2, 1890 |
| In service | 1890 |
| Out of service | 1904 |
| Identification | CAN 94905 |
| Fate | Scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | inland shallow-draft boat passenger/freighter |
| Tonnage | 452 gross; 285 net |
| Length | 131 ft (40 m) |
| Beam | 25.5 ft (8 m) |
| Depth | 4.8 ft (1 m) depth of hold |
| Installed power | twin steam engines manufactured by Albion Iron Works of Victoria, British Columbia, twin single-cylinder, horizontally mounted, 16" bore by 54" stroke, 16 hp (12 kW) nominal |
| Propulsion | sternwheel |
| Speed | 12.3 miles per hour average (varied greatly depending on river currents) |
Lytton was a sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Arrow Lakes and the Columbia River in southeastern British Columbia and northeastern Washington from 1890 to 1904.
- ^ Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 18 and 52, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X
- ^ Turner, Robert D., Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs -- An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's British Columbia Lake and River Service, at 4, 6, 7, 8, 9-13, 17, 18, 19, 27-29, 49, 61, 63, 107, 117, 118, 119, 122, Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC 1984 ISBN 0-919203-15-9
- ^ Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
- ^ a b Downs, Art, Paddlewheels on the Frontier -- The Story of British Columbia and Yukon River Sternwheel Steamers, 117-118, 122-123, 125, 128, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1972
- ^ Affleck gives cost of steamer as $20,941; Turner and Downs give $38,000