Ship Details

Princess Mary (I)

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Photo Credit: Vancouver Public Library VPL13955

 
 
Registry #1 126950 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1910 Princess Mary (I) Name 6
Name 2 1952 Bulk Carrier No. 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1910 Place Paisley Area Scotland Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 248.4' x 40.1' x 14'
Builder Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley Scotland UK Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 2155 Type 1 Passenger Vessel
Registered Tonnage 1346 Type 2 Barge
Engine 194hp Triple expansion 6-cylinder engine Engine Manufacture Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley Scotland UK
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 1913 she was lengthened and converted to oil fuel at Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt BC 2155gt. Call Sign VFB
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1910 she was owned by Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Services, Montreal QC. In 1950 she was hulked and she was owned by Island Tug & Barge Co., Victoria BC. Her upper deck was pulled ashore and turned into a coffe shop by Morris Greene. Run by Dusty Miller it was later a popular seafood restaurant.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1954-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On September 21, 1910 this vessel was sponsored by Mrs. Pritchard (daughter of the Manager of the CPR S.S. Lines.) In 1911 this vesselarrived in Victoria BC via the Straits of Magellan. In 1911 this vessel was put on the Victoria-Nanaimo-Comox service. In 1926 this vessel was cruising around Vancouver Island. In 1929 this vessel damaged her propeller on Ripple Rock BC Canada. In May 1950 this vesselreplaced the Motor Princess on the Sunday route in the Gulf Islands. This vessel called at every Gulf Island except South Pender Island. In 1951 this vessel was retired and replaced by the Princess Elaine (which being larger required larger berthing facilities). Her upperworks had been moved ashore in 1952 by Island Tug & Barge Co. adjacent to their Victoria wharf and offices and converted into a coffee shop. In 1952 this vessel was sold to Union Steamships Co. Ltd as a barge, superstructure removed to become a restaurant in Victoria BC. On April 15, 1954 this vesselbroke off tow from tug Chelan and sank off Cape Decision AK.
 
References
Musk, George (1981); Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; MacFarlane, John M. (1990) Capital Iron: Scrap dealers in Lotusland. In Resolution (Newletter of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia); Sooke Region Museum (1989); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document);
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