Ship Details

Curly

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Photo Credit: Mike Clement

 
 
Registry #1 158595 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1913 Curly Name 6
Name 2 1937 Standon Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1913 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 35.4' x 11.2' x 5.0'
Builder Menchions, William R. Measurement (metric) 10.8m x 3.4m x 1.5m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 8.81 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 3.96 Type 2
Engine 3hp engine (1913) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Repowered with a 120hp engine (1957c) Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Ted Wilson (1937);
 
Owner(s)
In 1913 she was owned by Alva M. (Curley) Snider, Vancouver BC. In 1935 she was owned by Alva M. Snider Jrd., Vancouver BC. In 1937 she was owned by Standard Towing Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1944 she was owned by Island Tug & Barge Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1945-1949 she was owned by Coast Quarries Towing Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1955-1961 she was owned by Indian River Quarries Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1962-1979 she was owned by Frank R. Smith, Vancouver BC. In 1988-1994 she was owned by Anderson-Smith Marine Contractors Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1994 she was owned by George Abermath, Queen Charlotte City BC. In 1997-1999 she was owned by Daryl Giles, Rivers Inlet BC. In 2003-2008 she was owned by Dennis J. Giles, New Westminster BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2008-03-10
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On September 26, 1954, at dusk, this tug owned by Coast Quarries Towing Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC, was in collision with a scow and capsized just east of the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver Harbour BC. Caught in a tide rip, this vesselrolled over and sank throwing her two crew into the water. They were picked up by the nearby Bayburn that came to their aid, and picked up the scow and secured it to a buoy.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Monday September 27, 1954 page 17; Vancouver News-Herald (Vancouver BC) Monday September 27, 1954 page 1;
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