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- Design and construction
- Operations
- Fate
- Notes
- Further reading
{{Infobox ship imageShip image=Golden BC steamboat landing 1890s.PNG | Ship caption=Waterfront at Golden, British Columbia. Smaller steamer on left may be Hyak. Large steamer on right is probably Duchess }}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | Canada|1868}} | Ship name=Hyak (CAN #100687[1]) | Ship owner=Upper Columbia Navig. & Tramway Co.; Columbia River Lumber Co. | Ship operator=Frank P. Armstrong | Ship registry=Golden, BC | Ship route=Inland British Columbia on the Columbia River in the Columbia Valley | Ship ordered= | Ship builder= | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1892 at Golden, BC | Ship built= | Ship christened= | Ship acquired= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship identification= | Ship fate=Removed from service, 1906 | Ship status= | Ship notes= }}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type=inland passenger/freighter | Ship tonnage=39 gross tons; 24.6 registered tons | Ship displacement= | 81|ft|m|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} | 11.2|ft|m|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | Ship draft= | 3.9|ft|m|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} depth of hold | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship sail plan | Ship power=twin steam engines, horizontally mounted, 6" bore by 24" stroke, 2.4 nominal horsepower, manufactured 1892 Jencks Machine Co., Sherbrooke, Que. | Ship propulsion=sternwheel | Ship speed= | Ship capacity= | Ship crew= | Ship notes= }} | Hyak was a sternwheel steamboat that operated in British Columbia on the Columbia River from 1892 to 1906. Hyak should not be confused with the Puget Sound propeller-driven steamboat also named Hyak. The name means "swift" or "fast" in the Chinook Jargon. Design and constructionHyak was built at Golden, BC in 1892 for the Upper Columbia Navig. & Tramway Co., of which Capt. Frank P. Armstrong was the principal owner and manager.[1][2]OperationsHyak was operated on the upper Columbia route from Golden to Windermere Lake. In 1903 Hyak was sold to the Columbia River Lumber Company, which hired Armstrong to manage its steamboat operations.[1][3] FateHyak was removed from service in 1906.[1]Notes1. ^1 2 3 Affleck, Edward L., A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska, at 53, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver, BC 2000 {{ISBN|0-920034-08-X}} 2. ^Downs, Art, Paddlewheels on the Frontier -- The Story of British Columbia and Yukon Sternwheel Steamers, at 101-112, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA 1972 3. ^McCurdy, H.W., ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, at 5, 88-89, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA 1966
Further reading- Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake -- Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985 {{ISBN|0-9615811-0-7}}
- Timmen, Fritz, Blow for the Landing, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID 1972 {{ISBN|0-87004-221-1}}
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