Ship Details

Bacicin

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Registry #1 168446 (UK) Registry #2 (Italy Register) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 Fort Acton Name 6
Name 2 1948 Bacicin Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Prince Rupert Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.6' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Prince Rupert Dry Dock & Shipyards Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7133 Type 1 Freighter, (North Sands-type)
Registered Tonnage 6705 Type 2
Engine Triple expansion 3-cylinder steam engine Engine Manufacture John Inglis Co. Ltd., Toronto ON
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign BKPP; IBSE;
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943 she was owned by the United States War Shipping Administration (Haldon & Phillips Ltd., mgrs.), London UK on bare-boat charter to Ministry of War Transport, London UK. In 1948 she was registered at Genoa Italy, call sign IBSE. In 1948-1962 she was owned by Comm. Giuseppe Bozzo, Genoa Italy.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1968-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Fort Acton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post on the North Saskatchewan River at the mouth of the Clearwater Rver.
 
Anecdotes
In 1968 this vessel was broken up.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Heal, S.C. (1999); Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1944-1945;
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