Ship Details

Aurora Surveyor

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Registry #1 344923 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1970 Aurora Surveyor Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1970 Place Hay River Area NT Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 90' x ? x ? x ? x ?
Builder Alem Construction Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) 24.7m x 7.3m x 1.7m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 155.85 Type 1 Research Vessel
Registered Tonnage 105.98 Type 2 Freighter, ro-ro
Engine 2-240bhp diesel engines (1970) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
From 1970-1976 she was owned by Arctic Shallow Marine Ltd., Edmonton Alberta. From 1977-1983 she was owned by Arctic Transportation Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. From 1984-1990 she was owned by A.Frame Contracting Ltd. (Andy Frame), Saskatoon SK Canada. From 1990-1993 she was owned by Steve McGovern and Wendy Irvine, Yellowknife NT Canada. From 1994-2005 she was owned by Gary R. Vaillancourt, Yellowknife NT Canada. Her official registration was suspended 2005-07-12.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2005-07-12
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel and her sister ship had four posts supporting a wheelhouse so that a Caterpillar tractor could be driven underneath in a sort of landing craft vessel. Tom Horn ran one of them near Pelly Island. (Captain Sven Johanson 1992) Steve McGovern (2014) wrote: "my wife and I bought the ship from Andy Frame. It was in drydock in the NTCL at the time. We had it launched in June of 1990 and towed across Great Slave Lake by a small workboat, the Hearne Channel, owned by East Arm Freighting. The owners of EAF, Dave and Chris, were themselves houseboat owners. We lived on the vessel from the summer of 1990 to September of 1993, whereupon we sold it to Gary Vaillancourt. The ship was moored on the northwest corner of Joliffe Island during that time. After the sale, Gary towed the ship around the island to it's present location."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Johannsen, Sven (1992); Email Correspondence (Steve McGovern-John MacFarlane 08/11/2013);
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