Ship Details

Comet (II)

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Photo Credit: Douglas Lea-Smith

 
 
Registry #1 112812 (UK) Registry #2 221836 (US) Registry #3 Germany Register)
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1901 Comet (II) Name 6 1955 Crown Zellerbach No. 2
Name 2 1913 Orotava Name 7
Name 3 1921 James Dollar (II) Name 8
Name 4 1930 Pacific Forester Name 9
Name 5 1936 Island Forester Name 10
 
Year Built 1901 Place Port Glasgow Area Scotland Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 323.0' x 46.1' x 26.0'
Builder Wm. Hamilton & Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 3014 Type 1 Barkentine (4-masted)
Registered Tonnage 3014 Type 2 Barge, log
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower In 1930 her engines were removed. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign MDHT
Pendant  # Masters Captain W.J. Davies (1901); Captain Friedrich Dreier (1913); Captain Fred Nelson (1922);
 
Owner(s)
In 1901 she was owned by Standard Oil Co. as a case oil carrier operated by the Anglo-American Oil Co., London UK. In 1912 she was owned by Tank Storage & Carriage Co. Ltd. London UK. In 1913 she was sold to Reederei A.G. 1896, Hamburg Germany. In 1914 she arrived at Santa Roslaia Mexico where she was interned as an enemy belligerant. In 1920 she was awarded to France as a war reparation. In 1921 she was owned by the robert Dollar Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1930 she was owned by Canadian Robert Dollar Co. Vancouver BC sailing from Bellingham WA USA. In 1922 she carried lumber for Yokohama. On her return in ballast she was laid up on Lake Union. In 1934-1936 she was owned by Pacific (Coyle) Navigation Co., Vancouver BC. She was hulked as a barge. In 1936-1949 she was owned by Island Tug & Barge Ltd., Victoria BC. In 1947 she was converted to a a log carrier with three loading derricks. In 1954 she was owned by Badwater Towing Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1955-1962 she was owned by Canadian Tugboat Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1962-11-01
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In January, 1922, the four-masted bark Orotava (ex Comet of the Anglo -American Oil Co. of London), was given a minimum refit and dispatched from Bellingham as James Dollar under command of Capt. Fred Nelson with lumber for Yokohama. On November 01, 1962 this vessel was beached as part of the breakwater in Royston BC Canada.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 13 (1930); Heal, S.C. (2002); Photo Courtesy of Nauticapedia Collection; Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1921-1922, H.W. McCurdy Maritime History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 321;
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