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Trade Wind (I)

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Registry #1 (Norwegian Registry) Registry #2 225335 (US) Registry #3 (Japanese Registry)
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1919 Vancouver (VII) Name 6
Name 2 1920c Margaret F. Sterling Name 7
Name 3 1936c Trade Wind (I) Name 8
Name 4 1940c Seiki Maru Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1919 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 199.6' x 40.0' x 16.7'
Builder Cholberg Shipyard Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 988
Gross Tonnage 1036 Type 1 Barkentine (4-masted)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Sail
Rebuilds Call Sign MFWD; KNUI
Pendant  # Masters Captain Halvor Mikkelsen;
 
Owner(s)
In 1926-1927 she was owned by E.R. Sterling Co. Inc., Seattle WA USA. About 1927 Alaska Reindeer Corporation and Mrs. H. Petterson to Captain Herbert F. Haines of Seattle WA USA. About 1930 she was owned by Pan American Airways Company, New York NY USA. In 1935 she was owned by Arcade Shipping Co., Seattle WA USA.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1943-05-28
 
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Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
Her last registry was in Japan. On March 28, 1943 this vessel was torpedoed in the Pacific Ocean ( 50-38N, 155-15E) by the The USN submarine S-41 (Lt Irvin Hartman USN). From an anonymous entry in Flicker (in 2012 "this vessel was “the last of the famous fleet of Sterling multi-masted schooners which met with a remarkable series of misfortunes in the Australian trade”. A 4-masted schooner, MF [Margaret F. Sterling] was later renamed Trade Wind and converted to a floating base ship for the NZ service of Pan-American Airways." Gordon Newell stated "This vessel lay idle in Lake Union for nine years, was sold by the Alaska Reindeer Corporation and Mrs. H. Petterson to Captain Herbert F. Haines of Seattle. It was reported that he planned to install auxiliary engines and return her to service, but later in the year he sold her instead ot the Pan American Airways Company who renamed her Trade Wind. Fitted with diesel auxiliaries, this vessel was taken to Kingman Atoll, 1,100 miles southeast of Honolulu, where this vessel was used as a training ship in navigation and meterology for airline pilots. After subsequent service as a supply ship from Honolulu to company air fields at Wake and Midway this vessel was laid up at Honolulu in 1939 and transferred to Panamanian registry the following year." Gordon Newell stated "The schooner Margaret F. Sterling (ex - Vancouuer) was purchased at federal auction in Seattle for $ 4,300 by Burton J. Wheelan, a Seattle attorney."
 
References
Gibbs, Jim A. (1968); Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1937, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, p. 454-55; Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1927-28, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966, p. 388; Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927; Andrews, Ralph W. & Harry A. Kirwin (1955) This Was Seafaring. Bonanza Books: New York NY; Merchant Vessels of the United States (1935);
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