Ship Details

Yorkhome

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo E-1903_DHH

 
 
Registry #1 172312 (Canada) Registry #2 HC.124 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1940 Yorkhome Name 6
Name 2 1942 H.C. 124 Name 7
Name 3 1948 El-Kar Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1940 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Robert Allan Measurement (imp) 40.1' x 10.3' x 5.8'
Builder Vancouver Shipyards Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 18.9 Type 1 Work Boat
Registered Tonnage 16.92 Type 2 Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine 2 - 170bhp 2.7nhp gasoline engines (1943) Engine Manufacture Ford Motor Co.
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign VCNJ
Pendant  # HC.124 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1940 she was owned by Roy Hyndman Ltd., Vancouver, BC Canada. In 1942 she was chartered by the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1944 she was returned to her owner. In 1945 she was sold to Winnifred (Mrs. N.E. Varney) Varney. In 1946 she was sold to Henry Donley, Kenora ON Canada. In 1948 she was sold to Walter Swanson, Kenora Ltd., Kenora ON Canada. In 1955-1977 she was owned by Gerald M. Hechter (MO), Winnipeg, MB Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1977-05-10
 
Named Features
Significance of Name The Initials "H.C." stood for Harbour Craft.
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was crewed with Fishermen's Reserve personnel but was not a part of the Fishermen's Reserve. The RCN employed her as a harbour craft at Esquimalt BC. Robert Allan (Email to Nauticapedia 17/01/2020) states "The “Yorkhome” was designed by my Grandfather … I can recall well as a wee boy seeing pictures on the basement office wall of this very fast boat “in flight” . Clearly there is some muddling of the name in the various H&S articles and in the actual registry. I can vouch that the boat had the name “Yorkhome” as a single word on her hull, and that is used throughout our records. "
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Email (Bryon Taylor-Nauticapedia 2017); LAC RG 12 Reel T-11906 (1948) (Yorkholm); LAC RG 12 Reel T-11864 (1977) (El-Kar); LAC RG 24 Volume 6710 File 8000-401/124 General Information - Harbour Craft 124 (ex YORKHOLME); DHH 8000 Series Box 173 File 073 H.C. 124 - Naval messages, correspondence, information card, and photographs; Email (Bryon Taylor-Nauticapedia 23/01/2019); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11864/1107?r=0&s=5 ; Robert Allan Design Database (2020);
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