Ship Details

H.C. 231

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 
 
Registry #1 192817 (Canada) Registry #2 HC.231 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 H.C. 231 Name 6
Name 2 1946c Mary Belle Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Shelburne Area NS Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 46.0' x 12.3' x 5.3'
Builder K. MacAlpine & Sons Measurement (metric) 14.0m 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.231 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1944 she was built for the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1947 she was sold.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name The Initials "H.C." stood for Harbour Craft.
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was deployed by the RCN as a Harbour Craft for NOIC Digby. This vessel served as a tender to HMCS Brunswicker October 1946. Bryon Taylor states that "I have found no evidence that H.C. 231 was renamed as Mary Belle."
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Gagnon, Karl (2010); Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 20/01/2018);
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