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
Cowichan (steamship) Cowichan (steamship) Cowichan was a steamship which was operated in British Columbia under the ownership of the Union Steamship Company. "Cowichan" sank in 1925 following a collision with another ship. "Cowichan" was originally launched under the name "Cariboo". "Cowichan" comes from the Halkomelem word "Q(a)w-(a)can", which means "warm mountains". This is believed to refer to hills at the head of the Cowichan River. The tribe of the First Nations called "Cowichan" lived on southeast Vancouver Island. The popular name for the ship was "The Cow". "Cowichan" was designed specifically to serve the remote logging camps of coastal British Columbia. A