Ship Details
Wabash (I) Photo Credit: John MacFarlane

 

Registry #1	126247 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1909	Wabash (I)	Name 6
Name 2			Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1909	Place	Victoria	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	40.3' x 10.2' x 5'
Builder	(nk)	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	14	Type 1	Tug
Registered Tonnage	8	Type 2
Engine	4nhp engine	Engine Manufacture	(nk)
Repower	In 1913 she was re-engined with 2.4 nhp engine. She was repowered with a 5nhp engine.	Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #		Masters	Captain Arthur MacFarlane; Captain Frederick MacFarlane; Captain Francis Beale;

 

Owner(s)
In 1909-1921 she was owned by Frederick R. MacFarlane and Francis A. MacFarlane, Cobble Hill BC. In 1921 she was owned by James McDonald et al., Victoria BC. In 1922-1930 she was owned by Captain Francis J. Beale, Ocean Falls BC. In 1926-1931 she was owned by Beale Quarries Ltd., Vancouver BC.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1931-08-13

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes

In 1915 this vessel was laid up at anchor at Mill Bay BC while the MacFarlane brothers served in the army and navy during the First World War. A photograph of her during the First World War shows her astern of H.M.C.S. Naden in Wheelbarrow Cove near Mill Bay. During this time this vessel was looked after by the brothers' teenage sister, Eva MacFarlane. Eva would visit the tug regularly to see that it was pumped out and not in danger of sinking. On one visit Eva discovered one of her neighbours removing the propeller. He explaied that he was removing it for safekeeping. This vessel ordered him to leave it at her place where, when it was dropped off, this vesselkept it under her bed for the duration of the War. On August 13, 1931 this vessel foundered sank in South Bentinck Channel BC.

 

References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Fred Rogers, Qualicum Beach BC (Personal conversation 08/06/1998); John D.S. Henderson (Personal Communication 14/10/1999); Canada List of Shipping; Personal Converasation (Douglas MacFarlane - John MacFarlane) Sooke BC 04/09/1989; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document);
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