Ship Details

Ragna

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Photo Credit: Fishermen Publishing Society online UBC archive BC_1532_683_1

 
 
Registry #1 156612 (Canada) Registry #2 (US Navy) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1917 Ramona (U.S.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1919c Ramona (II) Name 7
Name 3 1929 Ragna Name 8
Name 4 1949c Great Northern I Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1917 Place Mare Island Area CA Country USA
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 94.5' x 16.0' x 8.6'
Builder U.S. Navy Yard (Mare Island CA) Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 85.6 Type 1 Submarine chaser
Registered Tonnage 52.27 Type 2 Work boat
Engine 190hp diesel engine (1917) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds She was rebuilt at Vancouver BC. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain George W. Skinner (1939)
 
Owner(s)
In 1917 she was owned by United States Navy as a submarine chaser. In 1929-1930 she was a cargo carrier she was owned by Pacific & Foreign Navigation Co., Vancouver BC. In 1931 she was owned by Atlantic & Pacific Navigation Co., Vancouver BC. In 1949-1962 she was owned by Francis Millerd & Co. Ltd., West Vancouver BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1962-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Fraser Miles reported her to have operated in the rum running trade and this vessel was equiped with a 450bhp and reports her as being Mexican Registry as Ramona. On December 15 this vessel collided with the passenger vessel Lady Cecilia near Point Atkinson. There were no injuries on either vessel. On July 26, 1962 while enroute to Vancouver this vesselran aground and was wrecked at Smiths Inlet BC.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 13 (1930); Miles, Fraser (1992); Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Monday January 8, 1940 page 5; Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Friday December 15, 1944 page 1; Nanaimo Daily News (Nanaimo BC) Saturday July 21, 1962 page 2;
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