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Jolly Jumbo

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Registry #1 156629 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1930 Jolly Jumbo Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1930 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 23.9' x 8.0' x 3.9'
Builder A.C. Benson Shipyard Ltd. Measurement (metric) 7.28m x 2.44m x 1.19m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 5.81 Type 1 Work Boat
Registered Tonnage 4.71 Type 2 Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine 25hp gasoline engine (1930) Engine Manufacture Buda Co., Harvey IL USA
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1931-1937 she was owned by James W. Whitehead and Mrs, James N. Whitehead (JO), Vancouver BC. . In 1950 she was owned by Kelly Spruce, Vancouver BC. In 1958 she was owned by Kelley Logging Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1959-1962 she was owned by Alice Lake Logging Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1963 she was owned by Otto M. Olsen, Vancouver BC. In 1967-2008 she was owned by William J. Margerison, Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2008-03-10
 
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Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1931 the Jolly Jumbo was 34' x 10' x 5.2' 17gt 15rt 1hp engine and owned by James W. Whitehead and Mrs, James N. Whitehead (JO), Vancouver BC. The Jolly Jumbo was a yacht outfitted as a traveling general store cruised the area around Beaver Cove on northern Vancouver Island in the summers in the late 1920s. On May 16, 1940 this vessel suffered a fire in Kenneth Passage at the mouth of Mackenzie Sound BC.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 13 (1930); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document);
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