Ship Details

Venture (IV)

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Photo Credit: John Henderson

 
 
Registry #1 129475 (Canada) Registry #2 (Chinese Registry) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1910 Venture (IV) Name 6
Name 2 1946 Hsin Kong So Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1910 Place Old Kilpatrick Area Scotland Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 180.4' x 32.1' x 17.0'
Builder Napier & Miller Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1011 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage 580 Type 2
Engine 171hp direct acting triple expansion engines (1910) Engine Manufacture Miller & Macfie
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain John F. Edwards; Captain John J. Park (1911-1916); Captain James E. Ewing; Captain Walter S. Morehouse;
 
Owner(s)
In 1910 she was owned by Boscowitz & Co., Victoria BC. In 1911 she was taken over by Union Steamships Co. of British Columbia Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1946 she was sold to a Chinese firm.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1946-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was launched on February 16, 1910. This vessel carried 186 passengers on the cannery run to Skeena and Nass Rivers via Prince Rupert BC. On February 24, 1916 this vessel collided inbound in for through the First Narrows with the Wakena. In 1947 this vessel was destroyed by fire at Hong Kong.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Victoria Daily Times (Victoria BC) Friday January 5, 1917 page 10; The Province (Vancouver BC) Saturday, February 26, 1916 page 20;
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