Ship Details
Clifton Photo Credit: Henderson Collection

 

Registry #1	391334 (Canada)	Registry #2	W.36 (RCN)	Registry #3	AKA.529 (RCN)
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1944	Clifton (H.M.C.S.)	Name 6
Name 2	1946	Clifton (C.N.A.V.)	Name 7
Name 3	1970	Clifton (C.F.A.V.)	Name 8
Name 4	1979c	Clifton	Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1944	Place	Walkerville	Area	ON	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	104.0' x 27.0' x 13.0'
Builder	Canadian Bridge Co. Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Steel	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	230	Type 1	Tug, Ton-class
Registered Tonnage	49	Type 2
Engine	1 - 1000hp 19.55nhp Sulzer engine (1944)	Engine Manufacture	Dominion Engineering Works, Montreal PQ
Repower		Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #	W.36; AKA.529; ATA.529	Masters

 

Owner(s)
In 1944 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1979-1985 she was owned by North Arm Transportation Ltd., Vancouver BC. . In 1981 she was sold to Horton Maritime Explorations, North Vancouver, BC. In 1985 she was sold to USA interests.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1985-04-24

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes

In 1944 this vessel was based in Halifax NS. this vessel was later transferred to Esquimalt BC. In September 2000 this vessel was offered for sale in Fort Lauderdale Florida (at US$150,000). Gino Stradiotti (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 17/08/2016) stated "North Arm Transportation purchased the Clifton ATA 529 from Crown Assets in the early '70's. We brought her to our place where this vessel was laid up until the early '80's. this vessel was sold to a company in North Vancouver doing underwater work (Horton?). The story was they sent her to California to assist in an underwater mining project recovering bird guano from a sunken offshore island to be used for fertilizer. Eventually this vesselended up somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico as we got a call from a curious party saying it was tied up and her main engine components, heads, piston, etc. were laying on the back deck." In 2013 the Clifton was sunk in the Florida (Miami River) as an artificial diving reef as a memorial for Danny McCauley.

 

References
Canada List of Shipping; Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 01/03/2018); RG12 Reel T-11578 (Clifton);
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