I am finding that it is going to be impossible to keep up with postings to this blog. It is often several days between spots with Wifi and in the intervening period I been to several sights and taken 100 or more pictures. So for the foreseeable future, I am just going to hit the highest of the high spots. There is so much to see and not enough time to pass it along.
The Klondike II was the largest vessel to ever to steam the Canadian portion of the Yukon River. She was launched at Whitehorse in 1937 to replace the original SS Klondike which had sunk in 1936. The Yukon River is wide but not normally deep so the superstructure had been salvaged and used in the building of the II.
As was her predecessor, the II was a wood burnin’ (piled on the right) and beer haulin’ (stacked on the left) boat that served the mining towns along the Yukon River. The downriver trip from Whitehorse to Dawson City took about one day while the upriver return took 4 or 5. This may seem backwards if you are looking at a map since Dawson City is North of Whiotehorse, but the Yukon River runs Northerly.
Here we seen the Chief Engineer standing by the telegraph from the bridge. Well, that’s where he would have stood if the ship was still in use, however, this nice Historic Sites guide was standing in. Don’t the Canadians pick cute guides, so far most have been like this.
Dinner at the Captains table was by invitation, and from the first class list only. Second class stayed below decks with the cargo, even though their passage cost them as much as a months wages.
The Klondike II was the largest vessel to ever to steam the Canadian portion of the Yukon River. She was launched at Whitehorse in 1937 to replace the original SS Klondike which had sunk in 1936. The Yukon River is wide but not normally deep so the superstructure had been salvaged and used in the building of the II.
As was her predecessor, the II was a wood burnin’ (piled on the right) and beer haulin’ (stacked on the left) boat that served the mining towns along the Yukon River. The downriver trip from Whitehorse to Dawson City took about one day while the upriver return took 4 or 5. This may seem backwards if you are looking at a map since Dawson City is North of Whiotehorse, but the Yukon River runs Northerly.
Here we seen the Chief Engineer standing by the telegraph from the bridge. Well, that’s where he would have stood if the ship was still in use, however, this nice Historic Sites guide was standing in. Don’t the Canadians pick cute guides, so far most have been like this.
Dinner at the Captains table was by invitation, and from the first class list only. Second class stayed below decks with the cargo, even though their passage cost them as much as a months wages.
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