Ship Details

Viking Sur

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Photo Credit: John M. MacFarlane

 
 
Registry #1 318534 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1962 G.B. Reed (C.G.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1991 Western Horizon Name 7
Name 3 1999c Viking Sur Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1962 Place Esquimalt Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 168' x 32' x ?
Builder Yarrows Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 769 Type 1 Research vessel
Registered Tonnage 363 Type 2
Engine diesel engine Engine Manufacture Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen DK
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1962-1966 she was owned by the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada. In 1967-1989 she was owned by The Minister of Fisheries & Oceans, Ottawa ON Canada. In 1990 she was purchased by a not-for-profit group in Victoria BC for use in training youthful offenders in life skills for $1 with a registered mortgage of $200,000 in favour of the federal government. After the expenditure of $250,000 and without having trained any youths the Victoria-based Horizons Unbound Rehabilitation and Training Society (HURTS) went into insolvency. The Society was formed in 1989 by psychiatrist Dr. Philip Ney.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2000-12-21
 
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References
Maginley, C.D. & B. Collin (2001); Vancouver Sun (Monday, October 21, 1996); Canada List of Shipping;
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