The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Emily Harris
Emily Harris was a one-hundred-foot-long screw steamship built in Victoria
by Peter Holmes for Harris, Carroll & Co. The ship was named after the daughter of
Thomas Harris, one of the owners. The ship sank on
14 August 1871 following a boiler explosion.1
1. E. W. Wright, ed., Lewis & Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Portland: The Lewis & Dryden Printing Company, 1895), 98-99, 198-199. http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0222484; Launch,Daily British Colonist (Victoria), 3 January 1861, 3. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t5cc2z54w; Explosion of the Steamer Emily Harris,Daily British Colonist and Victoria Chronicle, 18 August 1871, 3. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t54f3rf1f