Ship Details

Liard River (I)

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Photo Credit: Alberta Archives A3144

 
 
Registry #1 138625 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1919 Liard River (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1919 Place Fort Smith Area NT Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 82.0' x 15.4' x 5.6'
Builder Captain J.W. Mills Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 113
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain J.W. Mills (1923); Captain L.L. Budreau (1941);
 
Owner(s)
In 1919-1922 she was owned by the Hudson's Bay Co., London UK.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1922-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was fueled by cordwood. In 1919 this vesselis said to have operated on the Fort Liard/Fort Nelson run and on Great Slave Lake for the Fort Simpson fishery. Hauled out at Fort Simpson. this vessel was wrecked in 1922 about 35 miles below Fort Nelson. Some of her equipment was salvaged.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories/pdf/liard-river-i.pdf ;
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