Ship Details

Amur (I)

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Photo Credit: UBC Cdn Fisherman Archive

 
 
Registry #1 098073 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1890 Amur (I) Name 6
Name 2 (nk) Sunderland Name 7
Name 3 1924 Famous (II) Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1890 Place Sunderland Area Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 216.0' x 28.1' x 11.2'
Builder Strand Slipway Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 907 Type 1 Passenger vessel, 3-masted
Registered Tonnage 570 Type 2 Tug
Engine 34rhp triple expansion steam engine Engine Manufacture Union Iron Works, San Francisco CA USA
Repower Repowered with a 850ihp triple expansion, 3-cylinder engine by North East Marine Co. Sunderland UK. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Rebuilt as a tug Call Sign VQDQ
Pendant  # Masters Captain Louis P. Locke; Captain Mears; Captain Josiah Gosse;
 
Owner(s)
In 1895 she was sold to the Lombard S.S. Co. In 1898 she was brought to the BC coast by the Klondike Mining, Trading and Transportation Company and she was owned by Sir Charles Tupper. In 1899 she was owned by Canadian Pacific Navigation Co. Ltd., Victoria BC for Wrangell and Skagway run. In 1903 she was transferred to Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship Services. In 1911-1924 she was owned by Coastwise Steamship & Barge Co., Vancouver BC for ore trade to Anyox. In 1924 she was sold to Captain A. Berquist, Victoria BC. In 1924 she was renamed as the Famous. In 1927 she re-entered service under charter to Frank Waterhouse & Company of Canada Ltd. In 1928 she was laid up and sold to Messrs Leith, Murray & Co. of Vancouver BC. In 1931-1932 she was owned by Albert Berquist, Victoria BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1932-00-00
 
Named Features Amur Point (BC); Amur Rock (BC)
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1890 this vessel was in the North Sea and Baltic trade. On November 10, 1901 this vesselran aground in Chilkat Inlet AK as a result of careless navigation. In 1924 this vessel was stranded. In 1926 this vessel was aground at Skeena River and salvaged by Vancouver Dredging and Salvage Company. In 1929 this vessel was stripped of steel and brass and beached at Bedwell Bay. In 1932 this vessel was sunk by Pacific Salvage Company in Burrard Inlet on orders of Vancouver Port Authority.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Sessional Papers (Vol. 14) (3rd Session of the 11th Parliament of the Dominion of Canada (1911); Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973); The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest; 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;
Last update
2020-07-05 00:00:00
Record Creator
John M. MacFarlane
Record Updater
John M. MacFarlane (2020); John M. MacFarlane (2019);

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