Ship Details

Mabel Brown

Vessel image

Photo Credit: Western Lumberman (May 1917)

 
 
Registry #1 138351 (Canada) Registry #2 (Norway Register) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1917 Mabel Brown Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1917 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer J.H. Price Measurement (imp) 240' x 43.3' x 19'
Builder Wallace Shipyards Ltd., North Vancouver BC Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1474 Type 1 Schooner, five-masted
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2-160nhp diesel engines Engine Manufacture J. & C.G. Bolinders Co. Ltd., Stockholm Sweden
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain W. Boyd
 
Owner(s)
In 1917-1920 she was owned by the Canada West Coast Navigation Company, Vancouver BC. In 1925 she was sold to Norwegian owners.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1922-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was rigged as a five-masted bald-headed auxiliary schooner (no topsails). This vessel had a capacity of 1,500,000 feet of lumber. In 1921 this vessel was damaged in a storm in the North Sea. In 1922 this vessel was dismantled. Her registry was dropped in 1925.
 
References
Gibbs, Jim A. (1968); Canada List of Shipping; Morris, Rob and Leonard McCann. (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press; McKee, William C. (1978); Photo courtesy of Michael Kaehn 2017;
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