Cadboro (1824 schooner)

Cadboro (or Cadborough) was a schooner launched at Rye in 1824. The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) purchased her in 1826. The HBC sold her in 1860 and she grounded and was destroyed shortly thereafter.

History
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Name: Cadboro
Owner:
Builder: Rye, England[1]
Cost: £800
Launched: 1824[1]
Fate: Wrecked in 1860, on lumber voyage from Puget Sound
General characteristics
Class and type: Schooner
Tons burthen: 71,[1] or 71​19⁄94,[2] or 72 (bm)
Length: 56 ft (17 m)
Beam: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Complement: Crew of 35[3] or 12[4]
Armament: 6 guns

Career

Cadboro first appeared in Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1824 with T.Rubie, master, C.Hicks, owner, and trade Leith coaster.[1]

In 1826 the Hudson's Bay Company purchased her for £800 for the fur trade from the Pacific Northwest Coast. On 25 September she sailed for the Colombia River in company with another HBC vessel, William and Ann. Cadboro arrived on the coast in May 1827. From there she sailed north, and then south to Monterrey.[2]

Year Master Owner Trade Source
1826 T.Rubie
J.Swan		 C.Hicks Leith coaster LR
1827 J.Swan Hudson's Bay Company London–Columbia LR
1830 J.Swan Hudson's Bay Company London–Columbia LR
1837 J.P.Swan LR

In 1842 James Douglas (later Sir James Douglas, Governor of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia) and six other company staff traveled from Fort Vancouver overland to Fort Nisqually on the Puget Sound. Cadboro sailed north to reconnoitre the location of what would become Fort Camosun, shortly afterwards renamed Fort Victoria.[5]

Cadboro was the first vessel to anchor in Cadboro Bay, British Columbia and was the namesake of that bay and the community named for it, and adjoining Cadboro Point.[6]

In 1846, Cadboro was chartered to transport the survivors of the shipwreck of schooner USS Shark to California. She left in January and returned on 17 February 1847.[2]

In 1850 she was accused of transporting 10 deserters of the United States. A few days later Cadboro became the first HBC vessel to be seized US Customs for non-payment of duties for goods. She was seized by US authorities at Nisqually.[2]

Fate

Cadboro was sold in 1860 to a Captain Howard after being laid up in harbour since 1857. She was later lost in October the same year (or in October 1862[7]), while on a lumber voyage from Puget Sound.[3] The Captain successfully beached the ship, but it was destroyed by the surf.

Citations and references

Citations

  1. LR (1824), Supple.pages "C", Seq.№C83.
  2. "Cadboro" (PDF). Hudson’s Bay Company Archives – Ships’ Histories. Archives of Manitoba. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  3. Beattie, Judith Hudson (2003). Undelivered letters to Hudson's Bay Company men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830 - 57. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-7748-0974-0.
  4. Blecher, Edward. Narrative of a Voyage round the World performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836-1842. Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn. 1843, p. 301.
  5. "British Columbia:From the earliest times to the present, Vol. I, E.O.S. Scholefield & F.W. Howay, p. 458". Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2008-05-24.
  6. "Cadboro Bay". BC Geographical Names.
  7. Gaines (2008), p. 194.

References

  • Gaines, W. Craig (2008). Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks (PDF). Louisiana State University. ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
  • Danda., Humphreys (2001). Sailors, solicitors, and stargazers of early Victoria. Surrey, B.C.: Heritage House Pub. ISBN 9781459330535. OCLC 244770272.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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