Ship Details

Kaigani II (I)

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Photo Credit: Vancouver Maritime Museum Photo 17831

 
 
Registry #1 179598 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1945c SC-730 (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1949c Kaigani II (I) Name 7
Name 3 1951 Seymour Narrows Name 8
Name 4 1956 Triggerfish (I) Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1945c Place Kingston Area NY Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 108.0' x 18.4' x 8.0'
Builder Hittebrant, G. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 149 Type 1 Submarine chaser
Registered Tonnage 84.18 Type 2 Freighter
Engine diesel engine (10kts) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds She was was rebuilt. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Douglas Manuel (1956);
 
Owner(s)
In 1945 she was owned by the US Navy. In 1949-1951 she was owned by Davidson Marine Freight Ltd., Vancouver BC. She was owned by the Tidewater Shipping Co. Ltd. In 1956 she was owned by the Union Steamship Co., Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1956-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was a wooden coastal freighter converted from an ex-USN sub chaser. In a 1955 incident this vessel was caught in a beam sea, heeled over and a cargo of steel plates slid off her deck into the sea off Cape Roger Curtis. On October 6, 1956 this freighter was on a run up Howe Sound with a general cargo when this vesselcapsized and sank one mile off Whytecliff in Howe Sound with the loss of three lives: Chris Karsten; Boyne A. Hay, and Chris Junker.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; George Duddy (2016); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Tuesday November 27, 1956 page 16; The Province (Vancouver BC) Saturday October 6, 1956 page 3;
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