Ship Details

Quatsino (III)

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Photo Credit: Richmond Archives Photo 1999 6 1749

 
 
Registry #1 179614 (Canada) Registry #2 SC.531 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN# 90096
 
Name 1 1943 SC-1045 (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1948 Quatsino (III) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Rockport Area TX Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 108.3' x 18.3' x 9.4'
Builder Rice Bros. & Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 134 Type 1 Fishboat, general
Registered Tonnage 87 Type 2 Fishpacker
Engine 1000hp engine (1943) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # SC.531 Masters Captain Lief Nordahl (1955);
 
Owner(s)
In 1943 she was owned by the US Navy. In 1948-1966 as a fishboat she was owned by British Columbia Packers Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1974-1979 she was owned by Packers Steamship Co. Ltd. Richmond BC. In 1980-1986 British Columbia Packers Ltd., Richmond BC. In 2003-2004 she was owned by BCPL (1999) Ltd., Richmond BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2004-01-26
 
Named Features
Significance of Name From a Kwakwala First Nations word and after a place on the north side of Quatsino Sound.
 
Anecdotes
Lonnie Edward Berrow Reported (British Columbia Facebook Group 12/10/2014) that "In the 1990s this vesselcut between a tug and tow in Seymour Narrows and was hit by the barge. They ran her for the beach in Plumper Bay but didn't make it and this vessel sank in deep water." John Demosten (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 25/12/2018) states that "This was prior to 1990, because the Western Express had an engine room fire in March of 1990. this accident occurred sometime in August, on a Sunday night, either in 1986 or 1987. Rick Johnson was the master on the Western Express, and was in Deep Water Bay with seine boats on either side. The Quatsino stern was severely damaged by a barge being towed by a southbound Crowley tug. Rick stopped pumping, disconnected all the brailers, picked up his anchor and ran out to put bridles and a tow line onto the Quatsino. He began to tow her towards Deep Water Bay, but this vesselstarted taking on water. There was nothing he could do but let his towline go. The Quatsino had quite a history. Hank Auchterlonie took her back east in the early 1970s with three BC Packer seine boats in tow."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; George Duddy (2016); Telecon (Cliff Rayner - John MacFarlane 19/07/2021);
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