Ship Details

Bingamon

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Photo Credit: MMBC Collection

 
 
Registry #1 152550 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1919 Bingamon Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1919 Place Raymond Area WA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 268' x 46.1' x 24'
Builder Sanderson & Porter Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 2128
Gross Tonnage 2187 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 2187 Type 2 Barge, log
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Engine removed Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 1925 she was rebuilt as a log barge from an unfinished wartime freighter. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1919 she was owned by the United States Shipping Board. In 1924-1925 she was owed by British Pacific Log Transport Co. (Captain W. Wingate & Associates), Vancouver BC Canada. In 1925 she was owned by British Pacific Barge Corp., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1927-1929 she was owned by Coyle Towing Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1929-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This log barge, converted from an unfinished wartime freighter, was equipped with cranes and winches for unloading cargo and was designed to transport logs from the Queen Charlotte Islands to mainland mills during the winter months. Insurance on ordinary log rafts and Davis Rafts was difficult or impossible to obtain during the winter months. On July 06, 1928 this vessel suffered a fire at Muchalat Inlet, Nootka Sound BC. On December 29, 1929, in tow of the tug Czar, this vesselwent ashore near Sand Heads in dense fog while carrying a cargo of logs. River currents took her up on the sand. Some of the logs were removed and this vessel was temporarily freed only to ground again. In 1928 while owned by Cape Scott (Coyle Towing Ltd., Vancouver BC) this vessel was sunk as a breakwater at Wreck Beach Vancouver.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Heal, S.C. (2002); The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Page 3361); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); The Vancouver Sun Tuesday December 29, 1925 page 1;
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