Malahat

MALAHAT was a 75-m wooden-hulled schooner built at VICTORIA in 1917 as a coastal lumber carrier. During Prohibition in the US it was employed as a "mother ship," supplying liquor to smaller vessels that ran the illicit cargo to shore (see RUM-RUNNERS). With the end of Prohibition in 1933 the Malahat was converted again, this time by the logger Gordon GIBSON, into the world's first self-propelled, self-loading log carrier. After 9 years hauling logs along the coast it sank in 1944 in BARKLEY...

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