Ship Details
RivTow Hercules Photo Credit: John MacFarlane

 

Registry #1	800204 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#	8020006	MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1981	RivTow Hercules	Name 6
Name 2	2011c	Hercules III	Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1981	Place	North Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	400' x ? x ?
Builder	Burrard-Yarrows Corp., North Vancouver BC	Measurement (metric)	121.92m x 28.68m x 8.02m
Hull	Steel	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	9043	Type 1	Barge, self-loading/self-dumping
Registered Tonnage	8333.85	Type 2
Engine		Engine Manufacture	(nk)
Repower		Propulsion	Non-powered
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #		Masters

 

Owner(s)

In 1981-1982 she was owned by Rivtow Industries Ltd., Rivtow Straits Ltd. and Rivtow Equipment Ltd. (JO), Vancouver BC. In 1985 she was owned by Rivtow Industries Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1990 she was owned by Rivtow Straits Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 1995 she was owned by Rivtow Marine Enterprises Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 2004 she was owned by Rivtow Marine Inc., Vancouver BC. In 2010-2019 she was owned by Seaspan ULC, North Vancouver BC.

 

Fate	Afloat in 2019	Date	0000-00-00

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes

This vessel was built as a replacement for the Rivtow Norseman Bill Carey states (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 08/10/2016) that "After the towboat strike in 1970 Rivtow and Straits towing amalgamated and became Rivtow Straits Ltd. (RSL) When the Rivtow Norseman was lost a loading works was setup in Kitimat to load chartered flat deck log barges Alberni Carrier and Powell Carrier plus two others. Rivtow now had the tug Gibraltar Straits with two towlines so this vessel was put on the run towing two flatdecks per trip. Log barge fleet now consisted of Rivtow Carrier, Straits Logger, single crane barges Great West 2 & 3, Straits Skidder, Straits Traveller, Straits Cold Decker. I don't know the story as to the whys, but many years later it was decided that Rivtow Straits would build a log barge with cranes and grapples capable of loading an entire log bundle ( truckload) in a single lift - the Rivtow Hercules was born, and a dedicated tug was built to tow it, named the Rivtow Capt Bob."

 

References
Canada List of Shipping
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