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Grace Darling (III)

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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.
 
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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