Ship Details

Cairdeas

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Photo Credit: T.R. Treadwell (photo courtesy Splinterfleet.org)

 
 
Registry #1 192037 (Canada) Registry #2 SC.1372 (US Navy) Registry #3 WN9282JE (US)
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 SC-1372 (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1949 Cairdeas Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Terminal Island Area CA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 108.8' x 18.2' x 9.4'
Builder Fellows & Stewart Inc. Measurement (metric) 33.16m x 5.55m x 2.87m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 157.18 Type 1 Submarine Chaser
Registered Tonnage 100.12 Type 2 Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine 2-1540bhp diesel engines Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds She was converted from a sub-chaser to a yacht design by Robert Allan. Call Sign NTPD
Pendant  # SC.1372 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943-1946 she was owned by the United States Navy as a sub-chaser. In 1949 she was owned by the General Construction Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1958-1967 she was owned by Cairdeas Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1967-1987 she was owned by Patrick Dickson, Redmond WA USA. In 1987 she was owned by George Baxter, Orcas Island WA USA. In 1989 she was owned by Paul Baxter, Orcas Island WA. In 2004 she was owned by Patrick Dickson, North Vancouver BC. In 2005 she was owned by Rod & Pam Stroud, Santa Paula CA USA. In 2008 she was owned by Rod & Pam Stroud, Bellingham WA USA.
 
Fate Afloat in 2022 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Cairdeas is Gaelic for Friend or Friendship
 
Anecdotes
From Navsource "this vessel was assigned patrol and escort duty on the west coast before departing for Pearl Harbor in August 1944. From Pearl Harbor this vesselescorted a convoy to Eniwetok and from there picked up another convoy to Kwajalein and then another for Guam. This vessel spent the remainder of the war in patrol and escort duty among the islands of Guam, Saipan and Tinian. On October 9, 1945 this vesselwent aground during typhoon Louise at Okinawa but suffered no damage and was refloated when the tide rose and proceeded under her own power."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; George Duddy (2016); https://www.splinterfleet.org/sfafloat.php?fbclid=IwAR1lGcOFkh07hTquaQ7OXsjIUwWt5n34xRfV39mMcQ6F13rrO3vwGQ-QncE; http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/151372.htm (website viewed 22/01/2023); https://cgmix.uscg.mil/PSIX/PSIXSearch.aspx (website viewed 18/01/2023);
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