Ship Details

S.D. Brooks

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Registry #1 143397 (Canada) Registry #2 5303677 (LR) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1919 St. Faith (II) Name 6 1972 Killarney (I)
Name 2 1942 S.D. Brooks Name 7
Name 3 1964 Haida Monarch (I) Name 8
Name 4 1969 Le Beau (II) Name 9
Name 5 1971 Unit Shipper Name 10
 
Year Built 1919 Place Lytham Area Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 135.3' x 29.1' x 13.65'
Builder Lytham Steam Boat & Engineering Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 421 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 2 Type 2
Engine 1200hp 3-cylinder Triple expansion surface condensing engine Engine Manufacture Lytham Steam Boat & Engineering Co. Ltd. Lytham UK
Repower Repowered with a 115hp engine (c1930); Repowered with a 1200hp engine (1962) Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign VGXK
Pendant  # V094B Masters Captain Ernest Landheim (1926); Captain Harold Beck (1958);
 
Owner(s)
In 1919-1925 she was owned by the Royal Navy. In 1926-1967 she was owned by Kingcome Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1968-1969 she was owned by Vancouver Tug Boat Co. Ltd., North Vancouver BC. In 1970 she was owned by Seaspan International. In 1971 she was sold to Seaways Inc., Monrovia Liberia (managed by Liffey Marine). In 1971-1977 she was owned by Unit Shipping (NZ) Ltd., Auckland NZ.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1977-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Named for Sheldon D. Brooks, son of Dr. S.J. Brooks, Chairman of the Powell River Co.
 
Anecdotes
In 1962 this vessel sank at the Kingcome Navigation dock in Vancouver harbour. In 1971 this vessel was laid up at Onehunga NZ. Her final service was This vessel carried out ammunition shuttles under charter to a US government agency prior to the collapse of South Vietnam, and while on a towing voyage from Singapore to the Arabian Gulf in 1976, suffered machinery failure near Colombo Sri Lanka. In 1977 this vessel was broken up in Jurong Singapore at the National Iron & Steel Works.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Newell, Gordon & Joe Williamson (1957); Photo Courtesy of Nauticapedia Collection; http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/Onehunga/unit_shipper.htm; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11933/363?r=0&s=6 ;
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