Ship Details

Flores (H.M.C.S.)

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Registry #1 172318 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1940 Cancolim II Name 6 1958 Gillian Lindsay
Name 2 1940 Cancolim II (H.M.C.S.) Name 7 1964 La Salle (II)
Name 3 1942 Flores (H.M.C.S.) Name 8 1969 Sea Fox II (II)
Name 4 1944 Cancolim II Name 9 1980 Pacific Oyster
Name 5 1956 Loligo Name 10
 
Year Built 1940 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 76.5' x 16.5' x 9.5'
Builder W.R. Menchions & Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) 24.7m x 5m x 2.9m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 82 Type 1 Patrol vessel
Registered Tonnage 35 Type 2 Barge
Engine 1 – 232bhp diesel engine (1940) Engine Manufacture W.H. Allen, Sons & Co., Ltd., Bedford UK
Repower Repowered with a 440bhp diesel engine (1957) General Motors Corp., Detroit, MI; Engine removed (1977) Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds In 1951 she was refitted at Star Shipyard for an Arctic exploratory trip for the Defence Research Board of Canada. In 1980 she was rebuilt as a barge. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Coxswain Wallace G. Grant RCNR in command 1942 with Coxswain John Sherlock RCNR as Mate. In 1944 Chief Skipper John S.T. Williams RCNR in command 1944. In 1944 Ray Pedersen (Skipper Coxswain RCNR)
 
Owner(s)
In 1940-1944 she was owned by Canadian Can Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1940 she was placed on charter at $370 per month and was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve. In 1945-1951-1954 she was owned by American Can Co., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1954-1956 she was owned by the Minister of Fisheries, Ottawa ON Canada. In 1958-1961 she was owned by Vancouver Barge Transportation Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1962-1968 she was owned by Vancouver Tug Boat Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1969-1970 she was owned by the Bute Towing Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1971 she was owned by Vancouver Tug Boat Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1972-1975 she was owned by Bute Towing Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1976-1977 she was owned by William T. Kelly (MO), Port Coquitlam BC Canada. In 1978-1985 she was owned by the Pacific Oyster Ltd., Burnaby BC Canada. In 1985 she was owned by Blue Line Shellfish Ltd., Powell River BC Canada. In 1986-2004 she was owned by George E. McBurnie, Delta BC Canada. In 2011-2012 she was owned by Andrew M. Clarke, Salt Spring Island BC Canada. In 2013-2024 she was owned by Richard A. Burr, Salt Spring Island BC Canada.
 
Fate Afloat in 2024 Date 1976-09-15
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Cancolim was for the Canadian Can Co. Ltd. Loligo is a genus of squid and one of the most representative and widely distributed groups of myopsid squid.
 
Anecdotes
During the Second World War this vessel served as a Canadian Naval Patrol Vessel, Fishermen's Reserve as H.M.C.S. Cancolim II. In 1941 this vessel was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve as H.M.C.S. Cancolim II. In 1942 this vessel was renamed as the Flores. In 1942 this vessel was listed as a harbour service auxiliary craft in the Canadian Naval List. In 1944 this vessel was tender to H.M.C.S. Givenchy II. On September 15, 1976 this vessel grounded and sank at Anchor Island, Slingsby Channel BC. On September 15, 1976 this vessel grounded and sank at Anchor Island, Slingsby Channel BC.Andrew Clarke reports that "In 2016 this vessel is now sunk at her moorings in Burgoyne Bay, Saltspring Island BC."
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Photo Courtesy of Nauticapedia Collection; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Email communication (Andrew Clarke-Nauticapedia 13/04/2017); Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 23/01/2019); RG12 Reel T-11865 (1977) (Sea Fox); RG12 Reel T-11592 (Pacific Oyster); RG24 Volume 6726 File 8000-471/10 General Information H.M.C.S. CANCOLM; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11865/1409?r=0&s=5 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loligo (website viewed 30/09/2024);
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