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Fort Yale (II)

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Registry #1 168405 (UK) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1942 Fort Yale (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1942 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.7' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7134 Type 1 Freighter, (North Sands-type)
Registered Tonnage 6704 Type 2
Engine 2500ihp Triple expansion 3-cylinder Dominion steam reciprocating engine Engine Manufacture Dominion Engineering Works, Montreal PQ
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1942 she was owned by Wartime Merchant Shipping Ltd. In 1942 she was registered at London UK. In 1943 she was owned by US Wartime Shipping Administration on bare-boat charter to the Ministry of War Transport, London UK (Charleton, McCallum & Co. Ltd., mgrs.)
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On August 08, 1944 this vessel was mined on 49.25N 00.27W, and on August 23rd, 1944 this vessel was torpedoed and sunk by U.480 at 50.23N 00.55W while in tow.
 
References
Lloyd's Register 1955/6, Vol. 1; Lloyd's Register 1943/4; http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/FORT_T.html;
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