Ship Details

Lorne

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Registry #1 094809 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1889 Lorne Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1889 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 151.0' x 26.0' x 13.2'
Builder Middlemas & W.A. Boole Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 159
Gross Tonnage 288 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 159 Type 2 Barge
Engine 3-138nhp triple expansion steam cylinder engines (1889) Engine Manufacture Albion Iron Works Co. Ltd., Victoria BC
Repower Non-powered after engine removed before 1944 Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 1917-1919 she was rebuilt. In 1937 her engines were removed and she was converted to a barge by British Columbia Marine Engineering and Shipbuilding. She was eventually hulked as a breakwater. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain James Albert Christensen (1889); Captain C.H. Locke (1900); Captain Donald Uquhart; Captain James E. Butler; Captain Robert A. Batchelor;
 
Owner(s)
In 1889-1900 she was owned by Mrs. Joan O. Dunsmuir, Victoria BC. In 1900 she was owned by James Dunsmuir (JO), Victoria BC and Alexander Dunsmuir, San Francisco CA USA. In 1900-1904 she was owned by James Dunsmuir, Victoria BC. In 1904-1914 she was owned by the Vancouver Tug Boat Co. Ltd., Victoria BC and operated by their subsidiary the Puget Sound Tug Boat Co. In 1914-1917 she was owned by Alexander McDermott. In 1917-1921 she was owned by Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 1921-1925 she was owned by the Hecate Strait Towing Co. She was owned by Puget Sound Tug Boat Company but registered to the Vancouver Tug Boat Co., Vancouver BC. In 1927-1931 she was owned by Pacific Navigation Co. In 1931-1937 she was owned by Pacific (Coyle) Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1937 she was owned by Shaeffer-Haggart Co. In 1939-1979 she was owned as a barge by Dominion Tug & Barge Co. Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was first registered in Victoria in 1889. On August 30, 1914 this vessel was stranded with the barge America in tow on Kanaka Bay, San Juan Island WA USA. In 1926 this vesselbroke all records for the Queen Charlotte Islands log trade taking a Davis raft with 1,000,000 feet of logs 70 miles across Hecate Strait in 15 hours. The tug Lorne and barge Pacific Gatherer together were involved in a spectacular accident in September of 1930. Fast and unpredictable tide caused problems with the tow. With the captain slowing the tug down, the two vessels collided side by side and went into the Second Narrows Bridge. C.H. Cates Towing was dispatched, but their strong fleet made no headway. As the tide came in, the tug and barge slowing rose up and caused the bridge span to come off its foundation. The bridge was plunged into the water.
 
References
Newell, Gordon & Joe Williamson (1957) Pacific Tugboats Bonanza Books: New York NY; Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping (1898); The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Page 3361); David R.P. Guay (2016); 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; LAC RG12, A1, Vol 414 Shipping Registers Victoria BC; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c3185/64?r=0&s=5 ;
Last update
2020-01-19 00:00:00
Record Creator
John M. MacFarlane (2020)
Record Updater
John M. MacFarlane (2020);

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