Ship Details
Janet Carruthers Photo Credit: Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society (2727-3)

 

Registry #1	138369 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1917	Janet Carruthers	Name 6
Name 2			Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1917	Place	North Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	240' x 44.1' x 19.3'
Builder	Wallace Shipyards Ltd., North Vancouver BC	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	1466	Type 1	Schooner, five-masted
Registered Tonnage	1253	Type 2
Engine	36nhp T/S S/D engine	Engine Manufacture	J. & C.G. Bolinders Co. Ltd., Stockholm Sweden
Repower		Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #		Masters

 

Owner(s)
In 1917-1920 she was owned by Canada West Coast Navigation Co., Vancouver BC Canada.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1919-01-22

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes
In 1917 her first voyage from Vancouver to Australia. In 1917 her screws removed in Honolulu HI. In January 1920 this vessel was stranded and wrecked on the beach 4 miles north Grays Harbour WA USA.

 

References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Gibbs, Jim A. (1968); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document);
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