Ship Details
Vic Ingraham Photo Credit: Loch McJannett

 

Registry #1	344735 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#	8635241	MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1970	Vic Ingraham	Name 6
Name 2			Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1970	Place	North Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	Robert Allan Ltd.	Measurement (imp)	149.5' x 50' x 8.5'
Builder	Allied Shipbuilders Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	45.66m x 15.24m x 2.62m
Hull	Steel	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	711.21	Type 1	Tug
Registered Tonnage	483.62	Type 2
Engine	4-4,500bhp diesel engines (1970)	Engine Manufacture	Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria IL USA
Repower		Propulsion	4 Screws
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #		Masters

 

Owner(s)

In 1970-1994 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 1995-2011 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Hay River NT Canada. In 2012-2016 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 2017-2019 she was owned by the Department of Public Works and Services, Commissioner of the NWT, Yellowknife NT Canada. In 2020-2022 she was owned by the Government of the Northwest Territory, Department of Infrastructure, Yellowknife NT Canada. In 2023-2024 she was owned by the Commissioner of the NWT, Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Infrastructure, Yellowknife NT Canada.

 

Fate	Afloat in 2024	Date	0000-00-00

 

Named Features
Significance of Name	Vic Ingraham, a pioneer Yellowknife businessman of the 1930s–40s.

 

Anecdotes

Her deckhouse was constructed by Bel-Aire Shipyards Ltd. On a subcontract for Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. This vessel was built for Mackenzie River service. The Scouts website states "Vic Ingraham Vic Ingraham was born an American in 1896, like many others, he came north to seek his fortune. Whilst barging supplies to Port Radium on Great Bear Lake in 1933, the tug carrying Vic Ingraham and three other men hit rough weather. When they tried to refuel, gasoline sloshed against a red-hot exhaust pipe and the tug caught fire. Ingraham plunged into the engine room to try and rescue two crewmen trapped below, and his hands and feet were severely burned. Ingraham and the surviving mate went over the side in a rubber life raft built for one man. For two days they drifted in an icy gale before reaching shore. Ingraham lost both his legs to that misadventure. With the first gold strikes in Yellowknife, Ingraham was back in the North. He set up and prospered as a trader in the new community, building Yellowknife's first hotel, then a bigger one, and a third. They called him "Old Cedarfoot" for his creaky artificial wooden limbs. Ingraham drank with bush pilots, celebrated with lucky prospectors and grub-staked down-and-outers. He never learned how to turn a man down."

 

References
Canada List of Shipping; http://www.ykscouts.ca/ScoutProperties/IngrahamTrailHistory/tabid/74/Default.aspx; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingraham_Trail;
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