Ship Details

Ehkoli

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Registry #1 313121 (Canada) Registry #2 FY.12 (RCN) Registry #3 YMR.532 (RCN)
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1941 Ehkoli (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1976 Ehkoli (C.N.A.V.) Name 7
Name 3 1992 Northwest Explorer (I) Name 8
Name 4 1998 Pacific Spirit I (II) Name 9
Name 5 1999 Ehkoli Name 10
 
Year Built 1941 Place New Westminster Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 84.1' x 21.0' x 9.0'
Builder Star Shipyards (Mercers) Ltd. Measurement (metric) 24.14m x 6.13m x 2.53m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 122.61 Type 1 Patrol Vessel (Nenamook Class )
Registered Tonnage 34.76 Type 2 Torpedo Recovery Vessel/Bathythermographic Vessel
Engine 300bhp diesel engine (1941) Engine Manufacture Vivian Engine Works, Vancouver BC
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 2022 she was being rebuilt at Commodore's Boats, Richmond BC Canada. Call Sign CYQE
Pendant  # FY.12; YMR.532 Masters In 1942 James Patterson (Skipper Coxswain RCNR) in command with Harold Bunn (Coxswain RCNR); In 1943 Bjarne Arnet (Skipper Coxswain RCNR) in command with Joseph Kaye (Coxswain RCNR); In 1944 Bjarne Arnet (Chief Skipper RCNR (FR)) in command with John M. Ritchie (Coxswain RCNR (FR));
 
Owner(s)
In 1941 she was owned by His Majesty the King for the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve. In 1945 she was owned by The Minister of National Defence, Ottawa ON and and after 1962 placed on permanent loan to the Hydrographic Service. In 1991 she was declared surplus by the Minister of National Defence, Ottawa ON Canada. In 1992 she was owned by Ron Hope, D.W. Dyer & B.E. Leason, Victoria BC Canada. In 1998 she was owned by Sea Spirit Adventures, Victoria BC Canada. In 1999-2014 she was owned by Deborah Magnone, Brentwood Bay BC Canada. In 2015-2022 she was owned by Mitchell D. St. Louis, Cowichan Bay BC Canada. In 2022-2024 she was owned by L.R.A. Environment Group Inc., Drummondville QC Canada.
 
Fate Afloat in 2024 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Ehkoli is a Chilcotin word for "Whale".
 
Anecdotes
In 1941 this vessel was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve as HMCS Ehkoli. In 1942 this vessel was tender to H.M.C.S. Givenchy. In 1943 this vessel was tender to H.M.C.S. Givenchy II. In 1944 this vessel was tender to H.M.C.S. Givenchy. During the Second World War this vesselran aground on Macaulay Point, Esquimalt BC.
 
References
Sandilands, R.W. (1965); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Canada List of Shipping; Freeman, David J. (2000); Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 23/01/2019); RG12 Reel T-11580 (EHKOLI); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11863/530?r=0&s=5 ; https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/313121 (website viewed 24/08/2022);
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