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Mackenzie River (I)

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Registry #1 130279 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1911 Mackenzie River (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1911 Place Fort Smith Area NT Country Canada
 
Designer Chicago Marine Iron Works Measurement (imp) 126.0' x 26.0' x 5.0'
Builder Hudsons Bay Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Composite Displacement
Gross Tonnage 412.92 Type 1 Passenger Vessel
Registered Tonnage 412.92 Type 2 Accomodation vessel
Engine 9.5ihp steam engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Non-powered Propulsion Sternwheeler
Rebuilds She was rebuilt to 125' 115 ton cargo barge, 40 passenger. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain J.W. Mills (1911); Captain George Ball Naylor (1912);
 
Owner(s)
In 1911-1944 she was owned by Hudson's Bay Co., London UK. In 1944 she was damaged by ice and repaired and became a houseboat she was owned by Hudson's Bay Co., London UK for commercial fishermen at Yellowknife NWT. In 1951-1965 she was a barge owned by McInnes Products Corporation Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 1965 she was owned by George McInnes, Edmonton AB Canada. In 1967 she was owned by Maud McInnes (widow), Edmonton AB Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1976-12-24
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Wooden-hull with steel frame. This vessel carried 100 tons of cargo. This vessel was in service between Fort Smith and the Mackenzie Delta in the 1920s. This vessel was a former log burner but was converted to oil from Norman Wells. This vessel pushed barges ahead - and had to shuttle them one at a time through open water or fast currents. This vessel was laid up and brought back from Fort Smith and converted from wood to oil for World War Two service. The war was the last significant use of paddlewheelers. This vessel was mothballed by the HBC in 1923 but reentered service during 1929/1930. In 1938 this vessel was in service on Lake Athabasca. In 1944 this vessel was crushed in the ice on the Mackenzie River. In the 1940s it was commissioned for use during the Canol Oil Project along the Mackenzie River ransporting supplies for U.S. Army to Norman Wells. This vessel was no longer being operated in 1947. After 1947 this vessel was in use as a bunkhouse for commercial fishermen in Yellowknife Bay. In 1976 this vessel was reported as having been broken up.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Charlebois, Peter. (1978); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboats_of_the_Mackenzie_River; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11863/1271?r=0&s=5 ; https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories/pdf/mackenzie-river.pdf ;
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