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The Hudson's Bay Company, ... List of Hudson's Bay Company vessels [1] Image Vessel Type Start End Area; Aklavik: Motor vessel: 1923: 1942: Western Arctic: Anson ...
Hudson's Bay Company vessels; A. Aklavik (HBC vessel) Anson Northup; Athabasca (1888 HBC vessel) B. Beaver (steamship) C. Cadboro (1824 schooner) Camden (1813 ship)
Nonsuch. (1650 ship) Nonsuch was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669 under Zachariah Gillam, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later. [ 1] Originally built as a merchant ship in 1650, and later the Royal Navy ketch HMS Nonsuch, the vessel was sold to Sir William Warren in 1667.
Cadboro. (1824 schooner) Cadboro (or Cadborough) was a schooner launched at Rye, England, in 1824. The Hudson's Bay Company purchased her in 1826 and sold her in 1860. She grounded just north of Port Angeles, WA in October 1862 and was destroyed by pounding surf shortly thereafter.
William and Ann was launched in Bermuda in 1818. In 1824 the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) purchased William and Ann. In 1825 she became the first HBC vessel to trade with the Pacific Northwest, competing directly with the Boston fur traders. She made three voyages to Fort George on the Columbia River, and was lost on 10 March 1829 on her fourth ...
Sea Horse was launched in 1782 at Gravesend for the Hudson's Bay Company. She then became a merchantman that a French naval squadron captured in 1795. She next became the Spanish merchantman Principe Fernando, which a Guernsey privateer recaptured in January 1800. She became a merchantman again, and then made one voyage as a whaler.
Aklavik was a small cargo vessel the Hudson's Bay Company used to carry supplies to, and furs from, its outposts in the high Arctic. She was active in the first half of the 20th century. Construction A tractor tows Aklavik over the Fort Smith portage, to her real launch, in 1923.
SS Grahame was a wooden sternwheeled steamship built in Fort Chipewyan, District of Athabasca, by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1882–1883 for service on the Athabasca River, lower Peace River, the Clearwater River, and the upper Slave River. Grahame was the first steam powered vessel in the region.