Ship Details

Jean Steedman

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Photo Credit: State Library South Australia

 
 
Registry #1 134658 (Canada) Registry #2 (Egypt Registry) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1917 Jean Steedman Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1917 Place Victoria Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 245.7' x 43.8' x 21.0'
Builder Cameron-Genoa Mills Shipbuilding Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1558 Type 1 Schooner, five-masted
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 91nhp oil engine Engine Manufacture J. & C.G. Bolinders Co. Ltd., Stockholm Sweden
Repower Propulsion Sail/screw
Rebuilds Call Sign TMWN
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1917-1922 she was owned by Canada West Coast Navigation Co. In 1924-1927 she was owned by Ingrahim Bey Sid Ahmed, Alexandria Egypt.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1924 this vessel was in Egyptian registry. Rick James reports that, "This vessel made a lumber voyage to Sydney Australia in January 1918. In 1922 this vessel was laid up in Cardiff Wales where this vessel was sold to Egyptian interests (Ingrahim Bey Sid Ahmed, Alexandria Egypt).
 
References
Canada List of Shipping (1919); Gibbs, Jim A. (1968); Letter to the Editor from Rick James to Western Mariner March 2015: Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927; https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1373/43/16 (website viewed 07/01/2024);
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