Ship Details

M.872 Black Duck (R.C.A.F.)

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Photo Credit: John MacFarlane

 
 
Registry #1 M.872 (RCAF) Registry #2 YFL.872 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1954 M. 872 Black Duck (R.C.A.F.) Name 6
Name 2 1954 Black Duck (C.F.A.V.) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1954 Place Dunville Area ON Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 40' x 11' x 4.5'
Builder S.G. Powell Shipyard Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Crash Boat
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2-diesel GM671 engines Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CFH8061
Pendant  # M.872; YFL.872; Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1954-1964 she was owned by Minister of National Defence (Royal Canadian Air Force), Ottawa ON. In 1985-1998 she was owned by the Canadian Armed Forces. She was purchased by the Vancouver Maritime Museum for use as a tender.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2006-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Named for the Black Duck
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was built as the R.C.A.F. Black Duck. this vessel was an RCAF crashboat at RCAF Station Comox. this vessel was acquired by the Canadian Navy as a Canadian Naval Patrol Craft, Rescue 1965-1998. this vessel was laid up March 19, 1998. this vessel was afloat in 2004. Lucian Ploias (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 17/12/2016) states that "this vessel sank at her mooring in 2005 at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, was raised and broken up."
 
References
A.D. Baker (comp.) (1999); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Isenor, D.E., W.N. McInnis, E.G. Stephens and D.E. Watson. (1987); Freeman, David J. (2000); Brouwer, Norman J. (1993); Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 17/08/2018);
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