Ship Details

Strath

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Registry #1 153100 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1926 Strath Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1926 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Noel W. Barker Measurement (imp) 81.9' x 20.5' x 9.0'
Builder Turpel Marine Railway Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 116 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 32 Type 2
Engine 10nhp Polar engine (1926) Engine Manufacture Atlas Gas Engine Co., San Francisco CA USA
Repower Repowered with a 200hp Atlas diesel Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CYNJ
Pendant  # Masters Captain Thomas R.D. Searle (1949); Captain Jack Hamilton (1958);
 
Owner(s)
In 1926-1927 she was owned by Victoria Tug Co., Victoria BC. In 1930-1931 she was owned by George McGregor (MO), Victoria BC. In 1936-1958 she was owned by Victoria Tug Co., Victoria BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1949-04-28
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On April 28, 1949 this tug struck a rock and sank at Point Upwood (30 miles north of Vancouver in Georgia Strait). The crew was rescued by the tug Macgregor which also picked up her tow of two barges. The top of the wheelhouse was visible at low tide and this vessel was salvaged. On January 6, 1958 this British freighter was in collision with the Strath, under command of Captain Jack Hamilton, which sank, two miles from the North Arm Jetty in Georgia Strait BC. The British freighter picked up the 7-man crew of the tug from a lifeboat a few minutes later. They were then transferred to the tug Iron Belle to a rendezvous with the tug Green Point off Jericho Beach where Fred Jancowski (Engineer), who was injured was taken to hospital.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; Photo Courtesy of Nauticapedia Collection; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); (The Province Apr 28, 1949);The Province (Vancouver BC) April 28, 1949; Edmonton Journal (Edmonton AB) Tuesday January 7, 1958 page 3; Nanaimo Daily News (Nanaimo BC) Thursday April 28, 1949 page 1;
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