Antique 1836-1888? UK royal navy Beaver steamship FUR TRADE 925 Sil SWAGGER Stik

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Antique 1836-1888? UK royal navy Beaver steamship FUR TRADE 925 Sil SWAGGER Stik:
$175.00

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Antique 1836-1888? UK royal navy SS Beaver steamship (Hudson Bay Co, Pacific Northwest) FUR TRADE sterling silver cuff marked \"REID\" CANE UK/Ireland High Ranking Officer \"SWAGER STICK\" \"Vitis (latin) staff\"

Antique 1836-1888 UK royal navy SS Beaver steamship FUR TRADE sterling REID CANE

Military WEAPON SWAGGER STICK **SOLID Mahogany Hallmark

SS Beaver Steamship 1836-1888

Pacific Northwest Fur Trade

Royal Navy UK

Maritime Fur Trade

Military Swagger Stick

Sterling REID Hallmark UK

Solid Mahogany

Ireland

First ship to make it around/to CAPE HORN ????

****** Photos of SS Beaver and HBC (hudson bay Co Flag) have been inserted into the listing for reference only; photos are not included in the sale ******

Great ESTATE FIND !!! As found. Sterling cap Hallmarked STERLING/REID. Note found with Swagger stick/Cane states \"solid Mahogany\". Shaft is solid and tight. Several external scratches/cracks, however shaft is not compromised, it is tight. Handle/Cap is tight. Note found with piece states came off the SS (Steamship Beaver). SS Beaver is a well known Royal Navy Fur trade Ship that operated only in the Pacific Northwest from 1836-1888. It also says Ireland (Royal Navy was UK, so Ireland also makes sense). This is an excellent piece of Early Military History; SWAGGER STICK; Maritime Fur Trade; Royal Navy; SS Beaver PIECE !!! Excellent Provenance. The old note is marked Portland OR on the front side. EXCELLENT PATINA !!! What an amazing piece for any collection !! Not Sure what we have here; this sale will be left up to the WORLD EXPERTS !!! ZOOM ALL PICTURES FOR A CONFIDENT WORRY FREE PURCHASE AND offer.

***** There were 3 canes found in this same group; please check our site now for all three. They all had separate notes/ provenance, see individual listing photos for the separate notes. Feel free to make mulitple purchases; we will send a invoice at the end of sale with discounted combined shipping !!!!

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Beaver was the first steamship to operate in the Pacific Northwest of North America. She made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading and was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia.[1] She served off the coast from 1836 until 1888, when she was wrecked.

Construction and delivery

Beaver was built in Blackwall, England of British oak, elm, greenheart and teak, and was copper fastened and sheathed. Her length was 101 feet (31 m), and the beam over her paddle boxes was 33 feet (10 m). She was launched at Blackwall Yard on 9 May 1835 and left London on 29 August under the command of Captain David Home, and with the company\'s barque, Columbia, built at the same time and commanded by Captain Darby. Beaver was outfitted as a brig for the passage out, paddles unshipped, and came out via Cape Horn under sail alone. After calling at the Juan Fernández Islands and Honolulu, she arrived off the Columbia River on 18 March 1836 and anchored off Fort Vancouver on 10 April. Here the paddles were shipped and boilers and engines connected.

Service in Canada

Beaver served trading posts maintained by the Hudson\'s Bay Company between the Columbia River and Russian America (Alaska) and played an important role in helping maintain British control in British Columbia during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858-59. In 1862 the Royal Navy chartered her to survey and chart the coast of the Colony of British Columbia. She also provided assistance to the Royal Navy at Bute Inlet during the Chilcotin War.

Initially she had a rectangular boiler, generating steam pressure at under 3 psi, and was fed by seawater. Boulton and Watt engines are not pressure engines, rather they are vacuum engines. (Salt water feed was common in the early days and could be done with low pressure and frequent boiler blowdowns to prevent salt scale build up on the plates.) The salt water played havoc with the boilers as the salinity rusted the wall thickness of the boiler, which would rot out. Beaver had to have a new boiler every seven years or so and went through multiple installations over her career. Over time the boiler pressure was upped, and 36 inch diameter cylinders replaced the original 42 inch cylinders.

Beaver played roles in the establishment of coal mines at Fort Rupert, and later in 1853, Nanaimo. She helped the Hudson\'s Bay Company establish Fort Victoria as a post in 1843. She would also ferry dignitaries such as the Governor back and forth between the Colony of Vancouver Island and the mainland, which until 1858 and the establishment of the Colony of British Columbia had come to be known as New Caledonia after the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

In her later life Beaver burned coal and would hire young men of the Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish) people of North Vancouver to work the holds as coal passers. The Hudson\'s Bay Company finally sold her in 1874.

A swagger stick (lat: vitis) is a shortstick or riding crop usually carried by a uniformed personas a symbol of authority. A swagger stick is shorter than a staffor cane,and is usually made from rattan.

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