Ship Details

SC-308 (U.S.S.)

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Registry #1 156633 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1918 SC-308 (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1930 Hurry Home Name 7
Name 3 1938c Marauder (I) Name 8
Name 4 1939 Marauder (H.M.C.S.) Name 9
Name 5 1945c Marauder (I) Name 10
 
Year Built 1918 Place Bremerton Area WA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 94.8' x 15.3' x 8.9'
Builder U.S. Navy Yard (Bremerton WA) Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 90.04 Type 1 Submarine chaser
Registered Tonnage 57.01 Type 2 Fishboat, seiner
Engine 3 – 5nhp gasoline engines (1918); Engine Manufacture Capital Auto Corp., St. Paul, MI
Repower 450bhp Liberty gas engines; 520hp engine (1928); Cummins Diesel Engine, Co., Columbus, OH. 140bhp diesel engine (1939c) Vivian Engine Works, Vancouver, BC. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # FY.03 Masters Coxswain Patrick Hope RCN (1942); In 1943 Angus Neish (Coxswain Royal Canadian Navy) in command and Joseph H. MacLeod (Coxswain Royal Canadian Navy).
 
Owner(s)
In 1917-1918 she was owned by the United States Navy as a Submarine Chaser. In 1930-1931 she was owned by Pacific and Foreign Navigation Company, Vancouver BC. In 1932 she was owned by Goose Island Fisheries Ltd., Vancouver, BC. In 1932 she was owned by Pachena Fishing and Navigation Co.In 1949 she was owned by Francis Millerd and Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1956 she was not listed in the Register of Shipping
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1951-12-18
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
As the Hurry Home this vessel was said to have operated as a rum runner. Her Liberty gasoline engines were fitted with smoke-making apparatus (Miles, Fraser (1992)). This vessel formed part of the pre-war Fishermen’s Reserve Fleet. This vessel participated in the 30 January – 25 February 1939 Fishermen’s Reserve Training Session. this vessel was mobilized 15 Sep 1939. In 1939 this vessel was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve as H.M.C.S. Marauder. In 1939 this vessel was appraised at $17,539. On December 18, 1951 this vessel foundered, half way between Pine Island and Scarlett Point QCI BC.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 13 (1930); Miles, Fraser (1992); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); BC Archives MS-0677 Volume 389 File 113 Fishermen’s Reserve; RG12 Reel T-11846 (1952) (Marauder); RG24 Volume 5681 File 126-102 - Fishermen’s Reserve West Coast Organization; RG24 Volume 6728 File 8000-471/37 General Information - HMCS MARAUDER; Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 23/02/2019);
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