Ship Details

Kalamalka

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Photo Credit: Fishermen Publishing Society online UBC archive BC_1532_0887_001

 
 
Registry #1 190303 (Canada) Registry #2 J.395 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 Kalamalka (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1947 Kalamalka Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 114.6' x 22' x 10.3'
Builder A.C. Benson Shipyard Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 184 Type 1 Minesweeper, Llewellyn Class
Registered Tonnage 111 Type 2 Fishboat, dragger
Engine 600bhp diesel engine (1944) Engine Manufacture Vivian Engine Works, Vancouver BC
Repower Repowered with a 375hp engine (1947); Repowered with a 400bhp Deutz diesel engine (1965); Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds She was rebuilt as a trawler. Call Sign VDJM
Pendant  # J.395 Masters LT C.J. Hendrickson RCNVR (1944-1945); LT E.L. MacDonald RCNVR (1945); Captain Con M. Ethier (1966);
 
Owner(s)
In 1944-1947 she was owned by Royal Canadian Navy. In 1947-1956 she was owned by James E. Fiddler (MO), Vancouver BC Canada. In 1956-1964 she was owned by Norman W. Fiddler, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1964-1967 she was owned by Kalamalka Fishing Co. Ltd., West Vancouver BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1967-12-03
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Named for Vernon BC.
 
Anecdotes
At the end of the Second World War this vessel was laid up in the ship boneyard at Bedwell Bay in Indian Arm BC. In 1966 this fishboat, while under the command of Captain Con M. Ethier, was in collision with the Sea Prince at the Sandheads Lighthouse, near the mouth of the Fraser River. This vessel sank, was raised and repaired. Her crew of five escaped unharmed. On December 3, 1967 this vessel had an engine room fire and burned off Goschen Island in the northern Hecate Strait BC and sank in Willis Bay. This vessel was at anchor at the time of the fire and the crew abandoned ship and were rescued.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Rogers, A.C. (Jr.) Shipwreck Chart No. 3; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document) ; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11925/829?r=0&s=4 ; Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Monday July 18, 1966 page 2; The Province (Vancouver BC) Friday December 15, 1967 page 27;
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