Ship Details
Sea Pride II (H.M.C.S.) Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo DHH-NDHQ

 

Registry #1	172296 (Canada)	Registry #2	Z.126 (RCN)	Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1940	Sea Pride II (I)	Name 6
Name 2	1942	Sea Pride II (H.M.C.S.)	Name 7
Name 3	1944	Sea Pride II (II)	Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1940	Place	Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	55.5' x 16.6' x 7.5'
Builder	Stanley Park Shipyards Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	48	Type 1	Fishboat, seiner
Registered Tonnage	31	Type 2	Patrol vessel
Engine	75bhp diesel engine (1940)	Engine Manufacture	Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co., Oakland, CA
Repower	Repowered with a 182bhp diesel engine Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, IL (1956);	Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #	Z.126	Masters	In 1943 Henry A. McKinnell (Skipper RCNR) in command; In 1944 Henry A. McKinnell (Skipper RCNR (FR)) in command

 

Owner(s)

In 1940 she was owned by Alfred McKinnell, Lasqueti Island, BC Canada. In 1942-1944 she was chartered by the Royal Canadian Navy as a Canadian Naval Patrol Vessel, Fishermen's Reserve. . In 1944 she was returned to her owner. In 1944 she was owned by Olegg Stavrokov, Victoria BC Canada. In 1949-1956 she was owned by Norman Sigmund (MO), New Westminster BC Canada. In 1956 she was sold to Blaine Myers Fishing & Packing Co., Ltd., Vancouver, BC Canada.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1960-01-25

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes
This vessel was crewed with Fishermen's Reserve personnel but was not a part of the Fishermen's Reserve. This vessel was employed as a D.E.M.S. Training Vessel at Esquimalt and was armed with an Imperial Stock Oerlikon. In 1943 this vessel was a tender to H.M.C.S. Givenchy II. On October 25, 1960 this vessel foundered off Cape Mudge BC.

 

References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Freeman, David J. (2000); Rogers, A.C. (Jr.) Shipwreck Chart No. 1; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Email (Bryon Taylor-Nauticapedia 23/01/2019); RG24D-1-c Volume 6732 File 8000-480/11 General Information - HMCS SEA PRIDE II; RG12 Reel T-11919 (1961) (Sea Pride II);
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