Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne. The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for naval use. The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was "Turbinia", launched in 1894; the successful demonstration of this vessel led to the creation of the company and the subsequent construction of the engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, and , launched
Camosun (steamship) captain failed to give the order to reduce speed in time, and so "Camosun" crashed through a dock at the Rivers Inlet cannery, going right up into the cannery building itself. In 1935 "Camosun" was sold for scrap. Camosun (steamship) Camosun was a steamship built in 1904 in Paisley, Scotland which served in British Columbia. "Camosun" was the first passenger-freighter ship ordered by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia. The vessel was intended to compete against the ships of two rival concerns, of the Canadian Pacific, and and of the Boscowitz Company. Construction on the vessel began in the