Ship Details

Fort Stikine

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Registry #1 168351 (UK) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1942 Fort Stikine Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1942 Place Prince Rupert Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.2' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Prince Rupert Dry Dock & Shipyards Co. Measurement (metric) 129.3m x 17.4m x 10.7m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7141 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 505bhp Triple expansion 3-cylinder steam engine Engine Manufacture Dominion Engineering Works Ltd., Montreal PQ
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Alkexander J. Naismith (1944)
 
Owner(s)
In 1942 she was chartered by the Government of Canada to the Ministry of War Transport (Port Line Ltd), London UK.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1944-04-14
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On 14/04/1944 a fire broke out while this vessel was in Bomaby harbour. Several explosions sank 27 nearby vessels and damaged all the harbour structures. The gold bars this vessel was carrying and scrap iron were propelled up to a mile away. It took 7,000 soldiers a week to extinguish the fire. 1376 persons were killed and 3,000 injured.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Paine, Lincoln P. (1997); http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/FORT_K.html;
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