Ship Details

Image Name: 154925_Brockton_Westview_1985_web.jpg - image file missing or name mis-spelled 
 
Registry #1 154925 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1928 Brockton (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1928 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 45.0' x 11.4' x 4.9'
Builder W.R. Menchions & Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 17 Type 1 Work Boat
Registered Tonnage 11 Type 2 Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine 60bhp engine (1928) Engine Manufacture Vivian Engine Works Ltd., Vancouver BC
Repower Repowered by a 70hp engine by Vivian Engine Works, Vancouver BC (1958c); Repowered in 1972 with a Gardiner 6LW with a Capitol 3:1 gear. Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CY3183
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1928-1940 she was owned by the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners, Vancouver BC. In 1940-1948 she was owned by National Harbours Board, Ottawa ON. In 1948-1949 she was owned by Charles F. Cook (MO), Vancouver BC. In 1949-1951 she was owned by Harold W. Germyn (MO) Vancouver BC. In 1951-c1970 she was owned by Cearly & Trotter Co., Courtenay BC. In 1972-1974 she was owned by Graham Wilson, Vancouver BC. In 1974-1975 she was owned by Robert and Margaret Lawson, Maple Bay BC. In 1975 she was owned by Reid Neufer, Hornby Island BC. (The boat, nicely maintained and updated, was at Westview in 1985.)
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1971-06-28
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
From 1928-1948 this vesselprovided patrol services on Vancouver Harbour and False Creek. Robert Lawson (Email to Nauticapedia 11/08/2021) states that "About 1972? this vessel was found in Courtenay Slough by Graham Wilson, towed to Vancouver where he installed a Gardiner 6LW with a Capitol 3:1 gear. The boat, nicely maintained and updated, was at Westview in 1985. This vessel may still be around, I seem to remember her at the wooden boat show in Victoria in the early 1990s. this vessel was 48ft on deck, 12 ft beam, had a 48x42 bronze propellor on a 2 inch monel shaft and the rudder and shoe, both massive, were cast in bronze. I believe the after deck house was a later edition. When this vessel was powered with the Vivian there would have been a low trunk cabin over the engine, accommodation was forward."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; McKee, William C. (1978); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11930/150?r=0&s=4 ; Robert Lawson (Email to Nauticapedia 11/08/2021);
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