Ship Details

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Photo Credit: Fraser Miles

 
 
Registry #1 156898 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1918 SC-? (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1929c Zip (I) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1918 Place Bremerton Area WA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 110'. 09' x 14.9' x 9'
Builder U.S. Navy Yard (Bremerton WA) Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 44
Gross Tonnage 87 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 44 Type 2 Fishpacker
Engine 2-450bhp Liberty gasoline engines Engine Manufacture Liberty
Repower Repowered with a 16hp engine (1931c); Repowered with a 350hp Imperial diesel engine, Atlas Gas Engine Co., San Francisco CA USA Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Pete Jensen (1936);
 
Owner(s)
In 1918 she was a sub-chaser owned by United States Navy. In 1929-1936 she was owned by Atlantic Pacific Navigation Co., Vancouver BC (under charter to Nelson Brothers Fisheries).
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1936-10-07
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was said to have operated in the rum running trade. (Miles, Fraser (1992)). this Canadian motor vessel, while under command of Captain Pete Jensen, stranded on Bonilla Point reef, early in the morning of October 7, 1936. this vessel was carrying a cargo of salmon bound from Bamfield to New Westminster. The launch was lowered but was quickly swamped and the Master who was trying to bail it out was thrown into the sea. The Mate, Ole Dahl, was drowned (he could not swim) and the other three crew members managed to reach shore. Captain Jensen walked three miles to Carmanah Light to seek help. THe Banfield Lifeboat started out but broke down and had to be towed back to port. After this vesselwent up on the beach her engine was salvaged at low tide by the Baird family. Members of the family also dived underwater from the surface to slowly dismantle the engine. John Quinn loaned a set of wheels to assist in the removal. The base weighed 3 tons and was moved by hand one mile to a barge. The engine was salvaged by the owner and installed in the Nitinat Chief, then being built.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Personal Conversation (Douglas MacFarlane - John MacFarlane) Sooke BC 04/09/1989; Palm, R.S. (1978); Canada List of Shipping; 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); Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Tuesday October 13, 1936 page 16;
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