Diana Island

Diana Island (48˚51'00" 125˚11'00" W side of Trevor Channel, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). The Diana was a small steam schooner built as a launch in China in 1860 and brought to the US for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. It was lengthened to 30 m in San Francisco, where its boiler exploded, causing two deaths. Capt Edward Stamp purchased the vessel about 1862 for his pioneer Port Alberni sawmill but sold it shortly after to Capt Thomas Wright, who rebuilt it for mail duty in the San Juan...

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