the first steamship to round cape horn under steam power?

[Paul Pless]

the beaver went around in 1835, but she sailed around and when she arrived in oregon her wheels were installed

the beaver, an ungainly and underpowered thing
photographed here in 1894, one year before being wrecked

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[bob winter]

I can’t see that sailing around the horn unless the rigging had been modified a lot.

[Paul Pless]

once they installed her wheels they probably shortened her rig, drastically

The Beaver was launched in England on May 5, 1835, and made her way under sail across the Atlantic, around Cape Horn, and up the South and North American coasts. The 101-foot vessel arrived in late 1835 at Fort Vancouver, near present-day Portland, Oregon, where her 13-foot-diameter paddlewheels were then installed.

[bob winter]

It appears she belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company.

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

It appears she belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company.

Should have been renamed "Full Pelt"

[George.]

Why would it risk rounding the Horn and having its paddlewheels torn off by rollers when it could steam up the Straits of Magellan?

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Why would it risk rounding the Horn and having its paddlewheels torn off by rollers when it could steam up the Straits of Magellan?

Because the paddle wheels were not fitted?

[dbstra]

She was wrecked off Siwash Rock in Vancouver on July 26, 1888. https://vmmcollections.com/Detail/collections/8082

[Jimmy W]

Don't know if it was the first.

In 1848, the paddle-driven SS California rounded Cape Horn with gold seekers bound for California. The fares were high, $150 for steerage and double that for saloon passengers, or in today’s terms, $5,000 to $10,000 per person. That bought you a passage of 120 days.