Ship Details

Newington

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Registry #1 110697 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1899 Newington Name 6
Name 2 1908 Newington (C.G.S.) Name 7
Name 3 1914 Newington (H.M.C.S.) Name 8
Name 4 1918 Newington (C.G.S.) Name 9
Name 5 1936 Newington Name 10
 
Year Built 1899 Place Beverley Area Yorkshire Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 115' x 21' x 11.5'
Builder Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 193 Type 1 Fishboat, trawler
Registered Tonnage 76 Type 2 Patrol vessel
Engine 58rhp triple expansion steam engine Engine Manufacture C.D. Holmes & Co. Hull UK
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CGFK / RGCW
Pendant  # Masters Captain Charles Polkingthorne (1907); Captain Charles Barnes (1909); Captain Percy Shadforth; Captain Harry Ormiston (1936);
 
Owner(s)
In 1899 she was built as the fishing trawler Newington owned by UK interests. In 1907 she was owned by E.J. Fader, New Westminster BC. In 1908 she was acquired by the Minister of Marine, Ottawa ON as the C.G.S. Newington, a Lighthouse Tender. She was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as a Canadian Naval Minelayer/Patrol Vessel in service 1914-1918. She was fitted as a mine-layer and it was intended for her to lay a minefield in Johnstone Strait BC and she spent the First World War as a patrol vessel. In 1918-1936 she was in Government service as a Fisheries Protection Vessel. In 1936-1954 she was owned by Pacific (Coyle) Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1958-1961 she was owned by Straits Towing Ltd., Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1959-08-26
 
Named Features Newington Rock (BC)
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1914 this vessel was supposed to have laid a defensive minefield in Johnstone Strait BC (but the plan was never implemented). On August 26, 1959 this vessel sank in Burrard Inlet BC after vandals stole her seacocks.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Rogers, F. (1992); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927;
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