Ship Details

Jean Francois de la Perouse

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Photo Credit: Neil McDaniel

 
 
Registry #1 348505 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1974 Pandora II Name 6
Name 2 1994 Jean Francois de la Perouse Name 7
Name 3 2000c Ocean Voyager (II) Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1974 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 180' x ? x ?
Builder Bel-Aire Shipyards Ltd. Measurement (metric) 58.2m x 4.6m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1377.72 Type 1 Research vessel
Registered Tonnage 619.78 Type 2 Diving Support Vessel
Engine 2-5200bhp diesel engines (1974) Engine Manufacture Nydqvist & Holm AB, Trollhattan Sweden
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign CZ3946
Pendant  # Masters Captain Robin A. Jones (1980);
 
Owner(s)
In 1974-1975 she was owned by Christensen Canadian Enterprises Ltd., Halifax NS Canada. In 1984 she was owned by Chemco Leasing Ltd., Toronto ON Canada. In 1985-1994 she was owned by Northlake Shipping Ltd., Halifax NS Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1993-01-28
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1975 while under Captain R. Dickinson, Master, this vessel made an West to East Transit of the Northwest Passage, (This was the first known transit through Fury & Hecla Straits. The vessel circumnavigated North America. Captain Robin Jones was her Master in 1975. He made a West to East Transit of the Norh West Passage. During this transit the vessel circumnavigated North America. In 1985 this vessel was chartered by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans from NorthLake ShippingLtd. and used specifically as a Pisces IV submersible support vehicle. This vessel was laid up in Victoria BC in 1988 until this vessel was sold to a French firm in 1994. This vessel foundered in 2002. Christian Krajewski (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 17/02/2021) stated " On July 5, 1976, at 1 p.m., a two-seater interceptor CF-101 VOODOO crashed at sea a few seconds after takeoff, 6 nautical miles off Cape Lazo. The next day, YSF 217 was requisition with her crew and equipped with a SIDE SCAN sonar, a deepwater camera, a LORAN receiver and the addition of 5 Regular forces personnel from MARLANT. After 6 days, YSF located the Voodoo that had crash, killing the pilot Capt Les Cox and the navigator Capt Roy Smith. The Pandora II, arrived on the scene, on July 11, with the Pisces V deepwater submersible in her hangar."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; MacFarlane, J.M. (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers (In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11865/888?r=0&s=5 ;
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