DGS Quadra
The Quadra was a survey and patrol vessel operated by the Government of Canada.[1] She was launched in 1891, on the River Cart, in Scotland. For her first fourteen years her captain was John T. Walbran.
The Quadra undertook surveys, maintained buoys and lighthouses, carried Police, and carried the Governor General on a visit to Alaska.[2]
The Quadra foundered in 1906 in Nanaimo Harbour, [3] and was raised in 1916.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Thomas E. Appleton (Summer 1970). "Captain John T. Walbran, 1848-1913". The British Columbian Quarterly. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
- ^ G. P. V. Akrigg (1979–2016). "WALBRAN, JOHN THOMAS, master mariner and toponymist". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
The next year he joined the federal government's Marine service and brought out from Scotland its steamship Quadra, which he commanded until 1903, performing a number of services, chiefly concerning lighthouses, buoys, and fisheries on the west coast, but also including hydrographic research, the transport of police to deal with native troubles, and passage for Governor General Lord Minto [Elliot] on a cruise to Alaska.
- ^ Quadra (+1906) Wrecksite
- ^ Raising Of The D.G.S. Survey Vessel Quadra In Nanaimo Harbour. BC Archives (image)