Ship Details

Canadian Transporter

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Registry #1 150448 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1921 Canadian Transporter Name 6
Name 2 1932 Cornwallis (I) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1921 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 400.0' x 52.4' x 28.7'
Builder J. Coughlan & Sons Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 5458 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 3352 Type 2
Engine 266hp 3 cylinder triple expansion surface condensing steam engines Engine Manufacture Lilleshall & Co., Oakengates Shropshire UK
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign TPWM; VGBY
Pendant  # Masters Captain R.P. Roberts (1927)
 
Owner(s)
In 1921 she was owned by Canadian Government Merchant Marine Ltd. In 1929 she was owned by Canadian Transporter Ltd., (Canadian National (West Indies) Steamships, managers). In 1929 she was registered at Vancouver BC. In 1931-1945 she was owned by Canadian Transporter Ltd. (Canadian National Steamships, mgrs.), Toronto ON.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1944-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Boilers by Vulcan Iron Works Vancouver BC. this vessel was sunk by enemy action at Bridgetown Barbados and later salvaged. In 1944 this vessel was torpedoed by the German submarine U-1230 in the Bay of Fundy with the loss of 42 lives.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; McKee, F. & Robert Darlington (1998); Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1944-1945;
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