Ship Details

Volcan

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Registry #1 168441 (UK) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 Fort Aklavik Name 6
Name 2 1950 Irene Dal Name 7
Name 3 1952 Volcan Name 8
Name 4 1953 Ocean Envoy Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.6' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7132 Type 1 Freighter, (North Sands-type)
Registered Tonnage 6704 Type 2
Engine 2500ihp Triple expansion 3-cylinder steam engine Engine Manufacture Dominion Engineering Works Ltd., Montreal PQ
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign BKQD
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943-1945 she was owned by United States Wartime Shipping Administration on bare-boat charter to the Ministry of War Transport, London UK (Dodd, Thomson & Co. Ltd., mgrs.). In 1947 she was owned by Dominion of Canada on bare-boat charter to the Ministry of War Transport, London UK (Novocastia Shipping Co. Ltd., mgrs.). In 1949 call sign MAKC. In 1950 she was owned by the Dalhousie Steam & Motorship Co. Ltd. In 1952 she was owned by Transoceanic S.S. Co., Karachi Pakistan. In 1953 she was registered at Karachi Pakistan, Call sign AQBT. In 1953-62 she was owned by Trans Oceanic S.S. Co. Ltd.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Fort Aklavik was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post on the Mackenzie River delta.
 
Anecdotes
(The butts of the shell & deck plating were electrically welded.)
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Heal, S.C. (1999); Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1944-1945;
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