Ship Details

Anyox

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Photo Credit: Kyle Stubbs

 
 
Registry #1 150273 (Canada) Registry #2 215804 (US) Registry #3 (Chinese Registry)
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1917 Anyox Name 6
Name 2 1941 Salvage Queen (III) Name 7
Name 3 1946 Sheng Li Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1917 Place Winslow Area WA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 193.4' x 39.7' x 19.6'
Builder Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1267 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 749 Type 2 Tug
Engine 98.5hp triple expansion steam engine (1917) Engine Manufacture Moran Bros. , Seattle WA
Repower Repowered with a 850ihp steam engine (1945) Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign TPVS / VGBR
Pendant  # Masters Captain S. Snoddy; Captain Charles Prince; Captain Alexander Cameron (1923); Captain B.D.L. Johnson (1933); Captain N.S. Nelson (1935);
 
Owner(s)
In 1917 she was owned by Captain James Griffiths. In 1929 she was owned by the Coastwise Steam Ship & Barge Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1930-1937 she was owned by Pacific Salvage Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1945 she was sold to Chinese owners.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1946-12-18
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Named for the location of the Granby Consolidated Copper Plant at Anyox, Observatory Inlet, B.C.
 
Anecdotes
In 1917 this vessel was in service carrying copper concentrates on Pacific Coast. On August 26, 1925 this vesselrammed the Radius while this vessel was towing a gravel scow during a severe rain storm and sunk off Prospect Point. In 1933 this vessel was chartered by the Hudsons Bay Company to supply Point Barrow AK, damaged by ice. In 1936 this vessellost her tow (the barque Dunsyre). An Alaskan trading schooner. In 1948 this vessel was destroyed by fire off the Wangpoo River China and declared a total loss.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories/pdf/anyox.pdf ;
Last update
2020-07-29 00:00:00
Record Creator
John M. MacFarlane
Record Updater
John M. MacFarlane (2020); John M. MacFarlane (2019);

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