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Delta Transporter

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Registry #1 345139 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 8745307 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1970 Takla Transporter Name 6
Name 2 1974 Delta Transporter Name 7
Name 3 1986 Inlet Transporter II Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1970 Place New Westminster Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 70.0' x 22.1' x 4.7'
Builder John Manly Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2-140bhp diesel engines (1970) Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds In 1974 she was rebuilt at Vancouver BC 27.43m x 10.09m x 1.43m 113gt 62rt Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1970-1972 she was owned by Fort Navigation Ltd., Fort St. James BC. In 1973 she was owned by Fort Navigation Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1973-1982 she was owned by Arctic Navigation and Transportation Ltd., Calgary AB. In 1983-1985 she was owned by Rivtow Industries Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1986-2019 she was owned by Inlet Navigation (1985) Ltd., Campbell River BC.
 
Fate Afloat in 2019 Date 0000-00-00
 
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Anecdotes
Hans Elfert (Email to Nauticapedia 18/06/2018) states that "In 1974 I was working as cook/deckhand on tugboats for Rivtow Straits out of Prince Rupert. In the spring of that year I was asked if I would like to go to the arctic that summer as Rivtow was starting up an arctic subsidiary called Arctic Navigation and Transportation Ltd. Some time in late May early June I found myself in Hay River where the Takla Transporter that had just been trucked up from Takla Lake was lying in two pieces on the beach. We were frantically engaged in joining the two halves back together with a ten foot wide section added to the middle to make her wider. It was here where the Takla Transporter became the Delta Transporter. The work, though amazingly fast, was not done in time to join the rest of the flotilla rafted up and heading down the river after breakup. As a result we ended up heading down the 1,700 km river to the Beaufort Sea by ourselves with just the four man crew. Our job in the Beaufort Sea was to lighter cargo to the oil rig islands in shallower water."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11863/449?r=0&s=5 ;
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