Ship Details
Colonel Lawson Photo Credit: John M. MacFarlane

 

Registry #1	176754 (Canada)	Registry #2	Z.78 (RCN)	Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1944	Colonel Lawson	Name 6
Name 2	1946	Robert Rachel	Name 7
Name 3	1959	Sea Mate II	Name 8
Name 4	1982	Okisollo	Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1944	Place	Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	53.9' x 16.0' x 6.1'
Builder	Vancouver Shipyards Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	16.43m x 4.88m x 1.86m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	50.97	Type 1	Work Boat
Registered Tonnage	34.66	Type 2	Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine	165bhp engine (1944)	Engine Manufacture	Gray Motor Co., Detroit MI USA
Repower	Repowered with a 240hp engine (1958)	Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #	Z.78	Masters

 

Owner(s)

In 1944-1946 she was owned by the Canadian Army (Royal Canadian Army Service Corps). In 1946-1958 she was owned by Robert V. Smith, New Westminster BC Canada. In 1959-1983 she was owned by Ridgway W. Wilson, North Vancouver BC Canada. In 1983-1998 she was owned by Ridgeway W. Wilson Jr., Ladysmith BC Canada. In 1999-2000 she was owned by Grant Addlington. In 2001-2004 she was owned by Okisollo Holdings Ltd., Brentwood Bay BC Canada. In 2011-2014 she was owned by Joel M. Cotter, Victoria BC Canada. In 2015-2017 she was owned by Edward J. Morton and Dorothy Morton, Campbell River BC Canada. In 2018-2024 she was owned by Edward J. Morton, Campbell River BC Canada.

 

Fate	Afloat in 2024	Date	0000-00-00

 

Named Features
Significance of Name	The significance of the name is that the name is a First Nations meaning of ‘fast water’.

 

Anecdotes
During the Second World War this vessel was operated by the Canadian Army Pacific Command Water Transport Company of the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps in service north to the Aleutian Islands. In 1947-1958 this vessel was used to fish tuna off the coast of Mexico. After the Second World War this vessel was laid up at the ship boneyard in Bedwell Bay in Indian Arm BC,

 

References
Canada List of Shipping; Email (Bryon Taylor - Nauticapedia 24/02/2016); LAC Reel T-11592 (Okisollo); Email (Bonnie Adie - Nauticapedia 19/04/2017);
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