| Captain Henry Bailey was the master of the sternwheeler //Phillip B. Low// in 1898, the master of the //Casca// in 1903, the master of the //Schwatka// in 1906, the master of the //Norcom// in 1913 and the master of the //Nasutlin// in 1916.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B)) Bailey died from cancer in Mayo where his boat, the //Nasutlin,// was wintering. He was a junior captain, joining the British Yukon Navigation Co. when they took over the Barrington interests. He had been running boats on the Yukon River since 1898 and was a very capable master.((Annual Report, Superintendent Gordon, British Yukon Navigation Co. Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1919) WP&YR. RGI II-I)) | Captain Henry Bailey was the master of the sternwheeler //Phillip B. Low// in 1898.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B)) In 1900, Bailey was the pilot on the sternwheeler //Sybil.// In 1901, he was recruited by Renwick Calderhead, the Dawson agent for Klondyke Corporation Ltd. (KCL) and sole proprietor of Lancaster and Calderhead. Bailey took over the steamer //Ora.// That year the little KCL boats were competing with much larger sternwheelers so small barges, built in Carcross and cheap to buy in Whitehorse, were lashed to the sides of the the //Ora, Nora// and //Flora// on the run from Whitehorse to Dawson. In May, the Ora delivered supplies to miners at the mouth of the McQuesten River on the Stewart River and in June she made a trip with a party going to Fraser Falls. The company then lost business to the much larger //Prospector// and all little boats were put on the Whitehorse Dawson run. The //Ora// ran log booms down from the mouth of the Pelly River and then wintered at Lower Laberge.((John L. Motherwell, //Gold Rush Steamboats: Francis Rattenbury's Yukon Venture.// John L. Motherwell, Sooke, British Columbia, 2012: 249-253, 258.)) |
| | Captain Bailey was the master of the //Casca// in 1903, the master of the //Schwatka// in 1906, the master of the //Norcom// in 1913 and the master of the //Nasutlin// in 1916.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2019 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#B)) Bailey died from cancer in Mayo where his boat, the //Nasutlin,// was wintering. He was a junior captain, joining the British Yukon Navigation Co. when they took over the Barrington interests. He had been running boats on the Yukon River since 1898 and was a very capable master.((Annual Report, Superintendent Gordon, British Yukon Navigation Co. Yukon Archives, Cor 722 (1919) WP&YR. RGI II-I)) |
