Ship Details

Lady Kindersley

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Photo Credit: Brabant Collection

 
 
Registry #1 150428 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1921 Lady Kindersley Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1921 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer T. Halliday Measurement (imp) 187' x 36.3' x 13.2'
Builder B.C. Marine Engineers & Shipbuilders Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 560
Gross Tonnage 734 Type 1 Schooner, three-masted
Registered Tonnage 594 Type 2
Engine 350hp semi-diesel 4-cylinder oil engines (1921) Engine Manufacture J. & C.G. Bolinders Co. Ltd., Stockholm Sweden
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Gus Foellmer (1921 & 1924)
 
Owner(s)
In 1921-1924 she was owned by the Hudson's Bay Co., London UK.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1924-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel replaced the Ruby. This vessel tended to be overbuilt as there was little experience in the Arctic by naval architects. This vessel had very large masts, straight and strong. This vessel was given no keel as it was thought that it would catch in the ice. This vessel apparently never stopped moving through the water - rolling back and forth. Her hull was constructed of B.C. fir and sheathed in 2 inch ironwood planks. In 1921 this vesselcarried 14 small auxiliary craft as deck cargo. This vessel was caught in the ice near Point Barrow AK in June 1924. The crew was rescued on August 22nd, 1924, and the ship was abandoned, to be crushed by the ice and sunk at an unknown date later with her valuable cargo.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Interview (John M. MacFarlane with E.J. Gall and Sven Johansson 27/08/1991) at Victoria BC; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories/pdf/lady-kindersley.pdf ; The Province (Vancouver BC) Monday May 2, 1921 page 14-15;
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