Ship Details

Bonnie Belle (III)

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Photo Credit: NWT Archives/Bern Will Brown/n-2001-002-03682

 
 
Registry #1 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1926 Bonnie Belle (III) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1926 Place Edmonton Area AB Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 40.0' x ? X ?
Builder Eriksen Boat Builders Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 12.2 Type 1 Schooner, flat-bottomed
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 10hp gasoline engine Engine Manufacture Frisco Standard Engine Co.
Repower Propulsion Sail/screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Nuligak (Bob Cockney) (1926);
 
Owner(s)
In 1927 she was owned by Nuligak (Bob Cockney), Aklavik NWT Canada. She was later she was owned by Walter & Stanley Cockney, NWT Canada. Note a previous version of this entry noted she was owned by Scotty Gall based on interview in Victoria on 27/08/1991 in Victoria and that she was built by Ericksen Boat Builders. It appears that Gall probably mixed this up with the HBC schooner Blue Fox which he skippered in 1927 that was built by that firm.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
George Duddy (Email to Nauticapedia 10/09/2024) states "She would have been shipped by rail to Fort McMurray and then taken down the Mackenzie River including portaging on a trailer pulled by a tractor over Smith Portage. Quotation from book: “The boat I ordered came to Aklavik. The summer of 1926 I owned a schooner at last! It was a brand-new one, built that year, and called the Bonnie Belle. It was forty feet long, with a Francisco Standard heavy duty ten horsepower machine-to-make-fire. It worked beautifully.”"
 
References
Nuligak – “The Autobiography of a Canadian Eskimo”, edited and translated by Maurice Metayer; Interview with E.J. Gall and Sven Johansson 27/08/1991 at Victoria BC; George Duddy (Email to Nauticapedia 10/09/2024);
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