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Registry #1	(Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

Name 1	1923	Grace Darling (III)	Name 6
Name 2			Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

Year Built	1923	Place	Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	30' x 12' x 3'
Builder	Turner Boat Works Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	6.3m x ?m x ?m
Hull	(nk)	Displacement
Gross Tonnage		Type 1	Tug
Registered Tonnage		Type 2
Engine	1hp gasoline engine	Engine Manufacture	Easthope Brothers Ltd., Vancouver BC
Repower		Propulsion	(nk)
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant #		Masters

Owner(s)
She was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway. She moved granite from the Vernon Granite & Marble Co. quarry near Vernon BC Canada.

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1960-00-00

Named Features
Significance of Name

Anecdotes
In 1923, Inkster built a larger, heavier barge measuring 30 ft. x 12 ft. x 3 ft., capable of hauling twelve tons. A custom built Turner boat, 20 feet in length with a vertical towpost stepped amidship, was ordered from Vancouver. The C.P.R. delivered it to Okanagan Landing on a ﬂat car. This boat was also named “Grace Darling”, after the then retired Pease boat. It was powered by a single-cylinder Easthope engine built for towing. The new “Grace” soon gained a ﬁne reputation as a first rate rough-water vessel. This vessel was well over forty years old and still going strongly in the late 1960s. One night during a storm her mooring lines let go and this vessel broke up on the rocks in Inkster’s Bay.

Anecdotes

In 1923, Inkster built a larger, heavier barge measuring 30 ft. x 12 ft. x 3 ft., capable of hauling twelve tons. A custom built Turner boat, 20 feet in length with a vertical towpost stepped amidship, was ordered from Vancouver. The C.P.R. delivered it to Okanagan Landing on a ﬂat car. This boat was also named “Grace Darling”, after the then retired Pease boat. It was powered by a single-cylinder Easthope engine built for towing. The new “Grace” soon gained a ﬁne reputation as a first rate rough-water vessel. This vessel was well over forty years old and still going strongly in the late 1960s. One night during a storm her mooring lines let go and this vessel broke up on the rocks in Inkster’s Bay.

References
Webber, Jean (1999); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Grace_Darling_%281923%29?fbclid=IwAR3jCuJipV2fTXBhTBHutcSIi8LP1hKQm8dNSlHkJLwN89GJuaenxOxPXxU (website viewed 01/01/2020); http://rousayremembered.com/billy-inkster-stonemason/4593982022?fbclid=IwAR022uul7rSjRKFTGeNYimY1kLhf1RRs2iZOYRCGTLiO75t2yGog08JpaQQ (website viewed 01/01/2020); https://rousayremembered.com/billy-inkster-stonemason/?fbclid=IwAR1pUvF1lE_K8UojfMMprIMmF0-c5dFPQiMR7DNVr97TSHBrl-92yNtunFY;
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