Ship Details

Chief Skugaid

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Photo Credit: Unknown

 
 
Registry #1 133736 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN# 311234
 
Name 1 1913 Chief Skugaid Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1913 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Coolidge Measurement (imp) 80.6' x 18.0' x 8.0'
Builder Vancouver Shipyards Ltd. Measurement (metric) 24.57m x 5.49m x 2.44m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 85 Type 1 Fishboat, general
Registered Tonnage 58 Type 2 Fishpacker
Engine 3hp steam engine (1913) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower 270hp diesel engine (1949c); Repowered with a Volvo diesel engine (2012c); Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters (?) Selig (1915); Sidney Burridge (1932); William (Red) Anderson; Stan Sorenson; Magnus Anderson (1956); David Cobb (2011)
 
Owner(s)
In 1913-1919 she was owned by The Canadian Fish & Cold Storage Co. Ltd., Prince Rupert BC. In 1926 she was owned by M.C. Smith, Vancouver BC. In 1929-1931 she was owned by General Navigation Co. of Canada Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1935 she was owned by Henry J. Stump, Vancouver BC. In 1937-1964 she was owned by Colonial Packers Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1964-1997 she was owned by British Columbia Packers Ltd., Richmond BC. In 2001-2003 she was owned by Jim Pattison Enterprises Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 2012-2019 she was owned by David C. Cobb, New Westminster BC.
 
Fate Afloat in 2019 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On Dec. 20, 1935, this vessel was involved in a collision with a ferry at Evans Coleman Wharf in Vancouver BC. Scott Kristmanson reported that: "It was recently sold by Canadian Fish (Jim Pattison Ent.) This vessel served as a fish packer for at least 30 plus years before being retired from the Canadian Fishing Company fleet. Before that, this vessel was a halibut boat that fished the Bering Sea. this vessel was also (1929-1931) a mother ship off of southern Vancouver Island during the rum running years."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; E-mail (Scott Kristmansen - John MacFarlane 20120323); Photo Courtesy of Nauticapedia Collection; http://www.newwestnewsleader.com/news/125111248.html; H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1976 (Ed. Gordon Newell) 1977;
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