Ship Details
La Reine (I) Photo Credit: Unknown

 

Registry #1	152540 (Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#	90842

 

Name 1	1924	La Reine (I)	Name 6
Name 2	1962	Ocean Tide	Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1924	Place	Vancouver	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	66.0' x 16.6' x 7.7'
Builder	Vancouver Shipyards Ltd.	Measurement (metric)	23.11m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage	56	Type 1	Tug
Registered Tonnage	14	Type 2	Fishboat, general
Engine	9nhp engine (1924);	Engine Manufacture	(nk)
Repower	13hp engine (1929); 320bhp F-M engine (1942); 275hp engine (1957c); 220bhp GM engine (1962);	Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign	VGXZ
Pendant  #		Masters	Jean Gonzalez (1977);

 

Owner(s)

In 1924-1961 she was owned by Vancouver Tug Boat Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1962 she was owned by Capital Iron & Metals Ltd., Victoria BC Canada. In 1962-1963 she was owned by Jack Egeland, Sidney BC Canada. In 1964-1965 she was owned by Emile Safarik, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1966-1976 she was owned by John F. Safarik, Burnaby BC Canada. In 1977-1978 she was owned by Flanders Fishing Co. Ltd., Richmond BC Canada. In 1979-1992 she was owned by Highland Fishing Co. Ltd., Coquitlam BC Canada. In 1993 she was owned by Leader Fishing Ltd., Delta BC Canada. In 1994-1995 she was owned by Carey J. Oliver, Courtenay BC Canada.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1995-03-30

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes

In 1960 this vessel was partially dismantled to a bare hull by Capital Iron & Metals Ltd., Victoria BC. In 1994 this vessel sank off Goose Island when forward planks popped off the hull. The crew battled for 24 hours to save the ship before this vessel was abandoned. Michael Crowe (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 16/12/2017) Sttates that "Gonzalez was an interesting skipper. He had left Chile when the leftists under Salvadore Allende took over. There was reading material on the boat for learning English which contained phrases like "Communism is the enemy of liberty" ["Communismo esso enemigo de libertad"} Jean was a European . A Walloon he said and he had been on the sea somewhere serving on the the axis side of WW2. [I think] but he was a good skipper and the ocean tide was a good safe boat with two blue cummings. I used to get up in the middle of every night and pump the bilges. I could pump and dream and watch the phosphorescence where the bilge water disturbed the ocean all at the same time. Other boats around us fishing were the Bering Sea [skipper nicknamed spaghetti] and the Lusty Lady."

 

References
Canada List of Shipping; MacFarlane, John M. (1990) Capital Iron: Scrap dealers in Lotusland. In Resolution (Newletter of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia); Sooke Region Museum (1989)
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