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D.A. Thomas

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Registry #1 138420 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1916 D.A. Thomas Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1916 Place Peace River Crossing Area AB Country Canada
 
Designer George Askew Measurement (imp) 161.9' x 37' x 6.3'
Builder Askew, George F. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1114 Type 1 Passenger/Freight Vessel
Registered Tonnage 798 Type 2
Engine 21hp steam engine (1916) Engine Manufacture Polson Iron Works Ltd., Toronto ON
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Cowley (1916)
 
Owner(s)
In 1916 she was owned by the Peace River Development Co. Ltd. (D.A. Thomas, Lord Rhondda). In 1921-1924 she was owned by the Alberta & Arctic Transportation Co. Ltd. She was laid up in 1922. In 1924 she was owned by the Hudson's Bay Co., London UK in service from Fort McMurray AB to Fitzgerald NWT as a replacement for the Peace River. She was taken on a transit of the Vermilion Chutes to the lower Peace River. In 1931 she was owned by the Peace River Development Corporation, Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1930-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name D.A. Thomas was the Baron Rhondda, a Welsh capitalist developing Hudson's Hope coalfields
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was constructed by the Peace River Tramway and Navigation Company. this vessel carried 250 tons of freight. In 1927 this vessel foundered, but was salvaged. In 1929 this vessel was wrecked at Dunvegan AB on the Vermillion Rapids and abandoned, and then broken up in 1930 at Fort Fitzgerald.
 
References
Ramsay, Bruce & Dan Murray (1969); Canada List of Shipping; Affleck, Edward L. (2000); Charlebois, Peter. (1978); https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories/pdf/d-a-thomas.pdf ;
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