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Farquhar

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Registry #1 126205 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1908 Farquhar Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1908 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 63.3' x 16.8' x 8.0'
Builder Moscrop, Arthur Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 49
Gross Tonnage 71.72 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 48.77 Type 2
Engine 16nhp fore-and-aft compound steam engine (1908) Engine Manufacture Doty Engine Works Co. Ltd., Goderich ON
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Benjamin Rowe (1927); Captain Isaac E. Breese (1930);
 
Owner(s)
In 1908 she was owned by the Rat Portage Lumber Co. Ltd., St. Boniface MB Canada (Edmund R. Seaton, Vancouver BC & Daniel H. Seaton, New Westminster BC Canada). In 1909-1916 she was owned by Brooks Scanlon O'Brien Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1916-1926 she was owned by Kingcome Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1926 she was owned by Pacific (Coyle) Navigation Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1926-1930 she was owned by Pacific Coyle Navigation, Vancouver BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1930-01-15
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On January 15, 1930 this vessel was lost wth all hands in the Georgia Strait while towing a barge from Bellingham WA to Vancouver BC Canada. Part of the wheelhouse was washed ashore on Stewart Island WA and the barge itself landed on Saturna Island. James Newton (grandson of Captain Isaac E. Breese (Email to Nauticapedia 13/01/2021) stated "What my family knew was that the Farquhar was towing a scow from Washington to Vancouver through stormy conditions when it started taking on water which was figured to have hit the boiler. This caused an explosion of some sort. A few pieces of the tugs wheelhouse turned up around Saturna Island along with the barge that it was towing but all the crew was lost at sea."
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); James Newton (Email to Nauticapedia 13/01/2021); https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=5525509&q_type_1=q&q_1=ship%20registration%20126205&ecopy=e011446325_110 (website viewed 21/07/2025);
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