Ship Details

M.582 Hili-Kum (R.C.A.F.)

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Registry #1 171778 (Canada) Registry #2 M.582 (RCAF) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN# 90625; 23954
 
Name 1 1939 Hili-Kum Name 6
Name 2 1941 M.582 Hili-Kum (R.C.A.F.) Name 7
Name 3 1946 Hili-Kum Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1939 Place Alert Bay Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 46.7' x 15.6' x 5.4'
Builder Sharpe & Warren Boatyard (James R. Sharpe) Measurement (metric) 14.2m x 4.8m x 1.6m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 43.84 Type 1 Supply Vessel (Type III)
Registered Tonnage 23.79 Type 2 Fishpacker
Engine 85bhp diesel engine (1939) Engine Manufacture Atlas-Imperial Engine Co., Oakland CA USA
Repower Repowered with a 220bhp 8-cylinder diesel engine by General Motors, Detroit, MI (1958) Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign G3AG; CY2712
Pendant  # M.582 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1939-1943 she was owned by Frederick C. Wastell (MO), Telegraph Cove BC. In 1943 she was acquired by the RCAF for service with the Western Air Command Marine Squadron based at Vancouver BC. In 1946-1951 she was owned by Frederick Wastell (MO) and Mary Elizabeth Wastell (JO), Telegraph Cove BC. In 1951-1954 she was owned by Frederick Wastell (MO), Telegraph Cove BC. In 1954-1959 she was owned by Marvin V. Sjogren, Alert Bay BC and Aladin O. Gauthier (JO), Alert Bay BC. In 1959-1967 she was owned by Marvin V. Sjogren (MO), Nanaimo BC. In 1967-1969 she was owned by Alvin J. Watson (MO), Victoria BC. In 1970 she was owned by Marvin V. Sjogren (MO), Nanaimo BC. In 1971-1973 she was owned by James M. Lawson, Vancouver BC. In 1974 she was owned by Ocean Traveller Ventures Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1975-1982 she was owned by Earl Newman, Waglisla BC. In 1983-1984 she was owned by Percy S.E. Mason (Jr.), Klemtu BC. In 1985-1987 she was owned by Percy Starr, Kemtu BC. In 1988 she was owned by Alfred D. Hunt, Port Hardy BC. In 1989-2009 she was owned by Robert V. Cook, Port Hardy BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2009-11-24
 
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Anecdotes
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada states that "The Hili-Kum departed from an anchorage off Moresby Island, B.C., with a cargo of red urchins for discharge at Port Edward, B.C. En route, the weather deteriorated. On April 10, 1995, in following gale-to storm-force winds and rough seas, the vessel shipped large volumes of water on the afterdeck, settled by the stern, and sank stern first. The three crew members donned immersion suits, abandoned the vessel, and boarded a liferaft. Two of the three immersion suits were defective, and the liferaft capsized several times. Two of the crew succumbed to hypothermia and drowned; the survivor was rescued some five and a half hours later. The Board determined that the Hili-Kum proceeded to sea despite a storm warning broadcast, and was being operated in following high winds and rough seas with the fish hold hatch cover not battened down. The cumulative effect of large volumes of seawater shipped on the afterdeck, the vessel's low freeboard aft, and the flooding/ downflooding of the below-deck spaces aft caused the vessel to settle by the stern, lose reserve buoyancy, and sink stern first. The hypothermia and subsequent drowning of two of the crew is attributable to the poor state of repair of their immersion suits and to their exposure to the harsh weather conditions when the liferaft capsized."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Weicht, Chris (1997); http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports-reports/marine/1995/m95w0013/m95w0013.asp; Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 17/07/2018); RG12 Volume 794 File 9015-H15 REQUISITIONING OF SHIPS - WAR MEASURES - HILI-KUM M.V.; RG12 Reel T-11925 (1967) (Hili-Kum); DHH 8000 Series Box 374 File 008 HILI-KUM - Naval messages and correspondence; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11925/713?r=0&s=4 ;
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