Ship Details

Albion (II)

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Registry #1 107716 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1899 Albion (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1899 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 79.2' x 18.2' x 8.3'
Builder Wallace Shipyards Ltd. (False Creek), Vancouver BC Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 88 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 59 Type 2
Engine 24nhp steam reciprocating engine Engine Manufacture John Inglis Co. Ltd., Toronto ON
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain Edward C. Bridgman; Captain Walter C. Brewer (1920); Captain Herb Clifton (1923);
 
Owner(s)
In 1899 she was owned by Wurzburg Co. Ltd. In 1901 she was owned by The Albion Cannery Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1904 she was owned by Greer & Coyle Towing, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1904-1911 she was owned by The Pacific Towing & Lighterage Co. Ltd., Victoria BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1910-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
On September 9, 1910 this vessel was stranded at Black Point, Scow Bay in Malaspina Strait BC Canada.
 
References
Sessional Papers (Vol. 14) (3rd Session of the 11th Parliament of the Dominion of Canada (1911); ; Mansbridge, F. (2002); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Wilson, Hill (2005) The Marine Pilots of Canada's West Coast; Vancouver Daily World (Vancouver BC) Monday September 12, 1910 page 19;
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