Ship Details

May Belle

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Registry #1 097158 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1891 May Belle Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1891 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 67.2' x 20.0' x 7.4'
Builder Turpel, William (Central Shipyard) Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Schooner, two-masted
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sail
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Abel Douglass; Captain Charles Israel Harris;
 
Owner(s)
In 1891 she was owned by William Turpel, Victoria BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1896-01-18
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1891 this vessel was a Victoria BC sealing schooner withdrawn from trade. This vessel had been ordered out of Alaska waters by the US vessel Mohican while engaged in fur sealing. In 1896 this vessel was lost with all hands off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
 
References
Newell, G. (1966); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; LAC RG12, A1, Vol 414 Shipping Registers Victoria BC; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c3185/115?r=0&s=5;
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