Ship Details

Northland Princess

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Registry #1 176497 (Canada) Registry #2 Q.071 (RCN) Registry #3 ML.071 (RCN)
IMO# 5257646 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 Q-071 (H.M.C. M.L.) Name 6 1974 Kona Winds
Name 2 1945 Troubadour III Name 7 2011c Knight Time II
Name 3 1952c Gulf Wing (II) Name 8
Name 4 1961c Nimpkish Princess Name 9
Name 5 1963 Northland Princess Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place New Westminster Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 107.6' x 17.9' x 6.9'
Builder Star Shipyards (Mercers) Ltd. Measurement (metric) 32.80m x 5.46m x 2.10m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 135.71 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 98.49 Type 2 Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine 2-320hp HP V-diesel engines 12kts (1944) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Repowered with 2-328kw diesel engines (2004c) Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds In 1952 she was rebuilt. Call Sign CGZP
Pendant  # Q.071; ML.071 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 19424-1945 she was in service with the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1946 she was owned by Gulf Lines Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1952-1958 she was owned by Tidewater Shipping Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1959-1962 she was owned by Union Estates Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1963-1972 she was owned by Northland Shipping (1962) Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1973 she was owned by 1321 Holdings Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1974-1975 she was owned by King Neptune Charters Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1976 she was owned by Seagull Electric Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1977-1980 she was owned by Pacific Adventures Enterprises Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1982-1985 she was owned by Winston Yacht Charters Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1986-2004 she was owned by Kona Winds Yacht Charters Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 2011-2024 she was owned by 0908312 B.C. Ltd., Powell River BC Canada.
 
Fate Afloat in 2024 Date 0000-00-00
 
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Anecdotes
George Duddy wrote (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 27/02/2017) that "Captain Terry of Northland Navigation Company lent the Northland Princess to a group headed by Scott Alexander, former St Roch crewman and inventor of Alexbow ice breaker bow in 1964 to do a 60 day, 6400 mile demonstration voyage in the NW Passage. Although highly publicized before time (eg Ottawa Citizen March 5 1964), the voyage failed because of mechanical difficulties in Alaskan waters without the vessel entering arctic waters." Nick Newell wrote (2014): "this vessel was once owned by Capt. Harry Terry and known as the Northland Princess. about 1961 or 1962 this vessel was used as the first "caroling ship" in Vancouver harbor. Bruce Kerr owned her for over 30 years. I believe this vessel is now somewhere up the coast being used as a logging camp." George Ewonus (Email to Nauticapedia 17/05/2020) stated "I was the only deckhand on the above ship (yacht) from 1965 to 1967. This was just after Captain Harry Terry lent her for the ill-fated "Arctic Expedition”. The Master during my time was a long time Northland Navigation employee, Jim Davidson. Jim was a true gentleman and an expert coastal mariner – a “jack of all trades” as many of the then old-timers were. He simply preferred to be called ‘skipper’. I was a student at UBC then and we were busiest during the summers. We also continued to do the caroling runs at Christmas in Vancouver. We often took local and foreign dignitaries on fishing expeditions up the inside passage. The longest trip we took was to Port Hardy, up the inside passage. The engines were twin GM Diesels. Jim called them ‘Jimmies’. Captain Harry Terry’s ownership was the pinnacle of the Northland Navigation days. Things changed dramatically after he left – and I graduated."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping
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