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Fort Camosun

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Registry #1 168352 (UK) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1942 Fort Camosun Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1942 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.7' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7126 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 6703 Type 2
Engine Triple expansion 3-cylinder steam engine Engine Manufacture John Inglis Co. Ltd., Toronto ON
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign BKKY
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1942 she was registered at London UK operated by the Ministry of War Transport on bareboat charter from the Wartime Shpping Agency. In 1947 she was owned by United States Maritime Commission on bare boat charter to the Ministry of Transport, London UK (Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., mgrs.). She was owned by United States Department of Commerce. In 1955 she was laid up, surveys overdue.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1960-00-00
 
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Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
The same day that the Estevan Light was shelled by a Japanese submarine the Fort Camosun was torpedoed by the I-25 110 km south-southwest of of Cape Flattery. The corvettes H.M.C.S. Quesnel, HMCS Edmundston, and HMCS Vancouver rushed to the her aid. They searched in vain for the submarine. They rescued the crew in lifeboats and towed the vessel, loaded with lumber, to Esquimalt. this vessel was repaired only to be torpedoed again in the Indian Ocean off the African coast. this vessel was repaired and sailed again. In 1960 this vessel was broken up in the USA.
 
References
Heal, S.C. (1999); Lloyd's Register 1955/6, Vol. 1;
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