Orion (1904 ship)
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Orion (1904 ship)
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Orion was constructed as a whale catcher in 1904, in Christiana, Norway. She was a steam-powered vessel, 91 feet (28 m) long, 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, displacing 109 tonnes. Robert Lloyd Webb, author of a book on commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest, wrote that she was the first steam-powered chaser boat in British Columbia. He recorded that Orion had to ship her whale catching gear in a commercial freighter, because every available space had to be loaded with coal for her long and difficult
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