Ship Details

M.427 B.C. Star (R.C.A.F.)

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Registry #1 172348 (Canada) Registry #2 M.427 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1940 B.C. Star (I) Name 6
Name 2 1942 M.427 B.C. Star (R.C.A.F.) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1940 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 67.0' x 18.3' x 6.4'
Builder Union Boat Works Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 70
Gross Tonnage 69.7 Type 1 Fishboat, seiner
Registered Tonnage 49.77 Type 2 Supply Vessel (Type II)
Engine 1 – 100bhp, 5.4nhp diesel engine (1940) Engine Manufacture Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co., Oakland, CA
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # M.427 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1940-1943 she was owned by Nicola Jurincick, Vancouver, BC Canada. In 1942-1943 she was chartered by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1943-07-23
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On July 21, 1943, the B.C. Star had left Vancouver with 41.5 tons of gravel, cement and other supplies for a RCAF construction detachment at Cape St. James off Kunghit Island on the southern tip of the Queen Charlotte Islands. This vessel carried a crew of ten and three passengers. Two days later, the ship put in at the RCAF Station Shearwater near Bella Bella where this vesseltook aboard 2.5 tons of cargo and three more passengers. On July 24, the vessel departed for Cape St. James but was never seen or heard from again. Local marine observers believed that an explosion might have sealed the fate of the B.C. Star and its 16 occupants.
 
References
Freeman, David J. (2000); Weicht, Chris (1997); Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 17/07/2018); LAC RG 12 Reel T-11902 (1943) (B.C. Star); LAC RG 12 Vol 772 File 9015-B12 Requisitioning of Ships – War Measures – B.C. STAR; LAC RG 24 Series D-1-c Volume 5823 File 8000-293/32 General Information – RCAF BC STAR; Dirk Septer (2018) The Disappearance of the RCAF Supply and Salvage Ship M427 B.C. Star in Nauticapedia http://www.nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/BC_Star.php (website viewed 13/01/2020);
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