Ship Details

H.C. 169

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 
 
Registry #1 193648 (Canada) Registry #2 HC.169 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 H.C. 169 Name 6
Name 2 1946c Adastra IV Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Summerside Area PE Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 46.0' x 12.3' x 5.3'
Builder Palmer & Williams Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Work Boat
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # HC.169 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943 she was built for the Royal Canadian Navy.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name The Initials "H.C." stood for Harbour Craft.
 
Anecdotes
The RCN deployed her to the Gut of Canso. Brian Taylor states "I have found no evidence that H.C. 169 was renamed Adastra IV. The measured length for Adastra II was 38’. The shortest measured length for the 46’ General Utility Harbour Craft was 44’"
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 20/01/2018);
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