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Hereanthere

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Photo Credit: Martin Askew

 
 
Registry #1 156897 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1930 Hereanthere Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1930 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer George F. Askew Measurement (imp) 39.8' x 10.8' x 5.3'
Builder Askew, George F. Measurement (metric) 12.13m x 3.29m x 1.62m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 10.5 Type 1 Yacht, sail (yawl-rigged)
Registered Tonnage 7.14 Type 2
Engine 15bhp gasoline engine (1930); Engine Manufacture Vivian Engine Works Ltd., Vancouver BC
Repower Repowered in 1954 with a 25bhp engine by Gray Marine Motor Co. Repowered in 1956 with a 85hp diesel engine by Allis-Chalmers Corp. Propulsion Sail/Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1930-1936 she was owned by George F. Askew, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1936-1943 she was owned by Lilian M. Arnold, Sardis BC Canada. In 1943-1949 she was owned by George F. Askew, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1953-1963 she was owned by Charles W. Clarke, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1963-1968 she was owned by Jessie Boyd Gordon, Campbell River BC Canada. In 1969-1970 she was owned by Nels I. Nyberg, Victoria BC Canada. In 1971-1972 she was owned by John G. Taylor, Victoria BC Canada. In 1973-1974 she was owned by John G. Taylor, Genoa Bay Duncan BC Canada. In 1976-1980 she was owned by Robert A. Coltart (MO), Victoria BC Canada. In 1982-1991 she was owned by Harold Bergson, Victoria BC Canada. In 1992-2014 she was owned by Stephen P. Moran, Sidney BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2014-04-24
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
R. Bruce MacDonald (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 07/11/2016) reports that this vesselhas new Vancouver BC owners (as yet unidentified). Rodger Askew (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 14/04/2020) stated "Lillian Arnold was George Askew’s sister. He put the Hereanthere in her name to get it away from a certain company that had foreclosed on his shipyard in False Creek."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 13 (1930); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11930/494?r=0&s=4;
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