Ship Details

Western Dispatcher (II)

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Photo Credit: Fishermen Publishing Society online UBC archive BC_1532_1202_1

 
 
Registry #1 190573 (Canada) Registry #2 SC.1272 (US Navy) Registry #3 SCC.1272 (US Navy)
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 SC-1272 (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1948 Norman Nelson Name 7
Name 3 1951 Western Dispatcher (II) Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Quincy Area MA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 99.8' x 18.3' x 9.4'
Builder Quincy Adams Yacht Yard Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 133 Type 1 Amphibious Control Vessel
Registered Tonnage 91 Type 2 Fishpacker
Engine 600bhp engine (1943) Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower By 1956 she had eight-cylinder twins built by the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation in 1944. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Rebuilt and converted 9.8 feet long, 18.3 feet in beam, and 9.4 feet deep. Her displacement was 133.36 tons gross, 90.68 net. She had one deck, two masts, a raked stem, a transom stern, carvel planking, and six bulkheads. Call Sign
Pendant  # SC.1272; SCC.1272; Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943-1947 she was owned by the US Navy. In 1948-1952 she was owned by Richard & Norman Nelson (JO), New Westminster BC. In 1952-1972 she was owned by Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1972-1978 she was owned by Nelson Bros. Fisheries Ltd., Richmond BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1978 this ex-USN submarine catcher converted to a fishpacker was reported to have been broken up and scuttled at Bedwell Bay BC.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; George Duddy (2016); http://www.belcarra.ca/reports/Bedwell_Bay_Western_Dispatcher_Wreck.pdf; Vancouver’s Undersea Heritage–Shipwrecks and Submerged Cultural Sites in Burrard Inlet and Howe Sound, David Stone, Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, 1994, pages 65-67; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11866/1893?r=0&s=5 ;
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