Ship Details

Gulf Master

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Photo Credit: Lonnie Edward Berrow Collection

 
 
Registry #1 320270 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1963 Gulf Master Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1963 Place New Westminster Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer William R. Reid Measurement (imp) 61.3' x 20.7' x 9.3'
Builder Star Shipyards (Mercers) Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 77.66 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 20.66 Type 2
Engine 765bhp Caterillar D398 engine (1964) Engine Manufacture Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria IL USA
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Lyle Richards (1966); Captain Forrest Anderson (1967)
 
Owner(s)
In 1963-1966 she was owned by Gulf Services Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1966-1967 she was owned by Cosulich Holding Ltd., Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1967-02-14
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On January 11, 1967 this vessel sank suddenly in a storm in the Gulf of Georgia at Traill Island BC near Sechelt BC with the loss of 5 lives. Lonnie Berrow states "Among those lost were Captain Forrest Anderson, the Mate Rodney Seymour, the Engineer Richard Mcphail, and the deckhand Robert Ayotte and an unnamed second deckhand. The only body recovered was that of Mate Rodney Seymour."
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Keller, Betty C. and Rosella M. Leslie (1996); Canada List of Shipping; Rogers, A.C. (Jr.) Shipwreck Chart No. 1; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11925/662?r=0&s=4 ;
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