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Steel singe screw steamer, 1081 tons gross. Built in 1887 in San Francisco for the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company as SS Premier. She was the first vessel on the B.C. coast with electric lights. In 1894, she was renamed Charmer. In 1903, she was acquired by Canadian Pacific when they took over the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, converted to carry automobiles on the Vancouver-Nanaimo run in 1923, rammed and sank CGS Quadra in fog off Nanaimo 1933, sold to H.B. Elworthy in 1935 and finally, broken up, hull burned at Albert Head outside Victoria.

Steel, single screw passenger vessel, 905 tons gross, built in Scotland and owned by William Robertson Company from 1910 to 1911. She was owned by Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company, Montreal between 1911 and 1925, by Canadian National Steamships from 1925 to 1940, and by Union Steamships of Vancouver from 1940 to 1951.