Ship Details

Torpedo (II)

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Registry #1 153379 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1925 Torpedo (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1925 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 42.7' x 13.9' x 6.8'
Builder Clyde Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 26 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 15 Type 2
Engine 4.5bhp engine (1925) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Repowered with a 5nhp engine (1938); 80hp diesel engine Fairbanks Morse Co., Chicago IL USA (1939c); 165hp engine (1947); Repowered with a 170bhp engine (1953); Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # V0023A Masters Captain R. Cates (1926); Captain Eric North (1960);
 
Owner(s)
In 1925 she was owned by Deeks Gravel & Rock Co. In 1926-1960 she was owned by The Deeks Sand & Gravel Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1960-02-17
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On February 17, 1960 this tug burned and sank at Pt. Atkinson BC. Captain Eric North and two crewmen fought an engine room blaze that eventually forced them into a lifeboat. They were towing three empty barges to Britannia when the fire started. The nearby tug La Mitte quickly arrived to pour water on the blaze but picked up the crewmen from the lifeboat. This vessel then took the burning tug in tow until the Vancouver firetug J.H. Carlisle arrived to extinguish the blaze.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 10 (1927); Rogers, F. (1992); Rogers, A.C. (Jr.) Shipwreck Chart No. 3; Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Wednesday February 17, 1960 page 2;
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