Lytton (sternwheeler)
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Lytton
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 Canada
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| Name: | Lytton |
| Owner: | Columbia & Kootenay Steam Navigation Co.; Canadian Pacific Railway |
| Route: | Arrow Lakes |
| Builder: | Alexander Watson |
| Cost: | $38,000 |
| 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.
Lytton was built at Revelstoke, British Columbia. She was the first vessel constructed for the newly formed Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company. Construction began in December 1889, but winter ice conditions forced a suspension of work until April 1890. Alexander Watson, a veteran shipbuilder, supervised the construction, for which he had recruited a crew of carpenters from Victoria, British Columbia. The engines for Lytton were second-hand, coming from the steamer Gertrude which ran on the Stikine and lower Fraser rivers from 1875 to 1887.
Lytton was a typical Columbia River steamer. She had three decks, the first one being reserved for freight, machinery and crew quarters, the second for passengers, including cabins and an observation saloon. Down the center of the passenger deck was a dining room with raised clerestory windows At the front of the top deck was placed the pilot house. Just behind the pilot house was a small structure called the "texas", which contained cabins for the officers. Behind the texas was the vessel's single funnel, and on the front of the funnel was the steamer's whistle. In the case of Lytton, the funnel flared out in cone near the top, and may have been fitted with a spark arrestor. This detail was somewhat unusual and allows Lytton to be more readily identified in photographs of the period. The foredeck was open, and was often heavily loaded with cordwood fuel or cargo.
Lytton was designed to be a shallow draft vessel to allow her to negotiate rapids and other areas of low water. With no cargo on board, Lytton drew only 19 inches (480 mm) of water. When fully loaded with approximately 60 tons of cargo, the draft increased to 2 feet 6 inches (0.76 m) The flat shallow draft hull was kept in shape by "hog chains" carried on large posts which, tuned by turnbuckles, supported the hull much like a bridge truss.
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