Ship Details

CIM006

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Photo Credit: John M. MacFarlane

 
 
Registry #1 800204 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 8020006 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1981 RivTow Hercules Name 6
Name 2 2011c Hercules III Name 7
Name 3 (nk) CIM006 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1981 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 400' x ? x ?
Builder Burrard-Yarrows Corp., North Vancouver BC Measurement (metric) 121.92m x 28.68m x 8.02m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 9043 Type 1 Barge, self-loading/self-dumping
Registered Tonnage 8333.85 Type 2
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Non-powered
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1981-1982 she was owned by Rivtow Industries Ltd., Rivtow Straits Ltd. and Rivtow Equipment Ltd. (JO), Vancouver BC Canada. In 1985 she was owned by Rivtow Industries Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1990 she was owned by Rivtow Straits Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1995 she was owned by Rivtow Marine Enterprises Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 2004 she was owned by Rivtow Marine Inc., Vancouver BC Canada. In 2010-2019 she was owned by Seaspan ULC, North Vancouver BC Canada. In 2023-2024 she was owned by Coast Island Marine Ltd., Campbell River BC Canada.
 
Fate Afloat in 2024 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name CIM for "coast Island Marine Ltd.,"
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was built as a replacement for the Rivtow Norseman Bill Carey states (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 08/10/2016) that "After the towboat strike in 1970 Rivtow and Straits towing amalgamated and became Rivtow Straits Ltd. (RSL) When the Rivtow Norseman was lost a loading works was setup in Kitimat to load chartered flat deck log barges Alberni Carrier and Powell Carrier plus two others. Rivtow now had the tug Gibraltar Straits with two towlines so this vessel was put on the run towing two flatdecks per trip. Log barge fleet now consisted of Rivtow Carrier, Straits Logger, single crane barges Great West 2 & 3, Straits Skidder, Straits Traveller, Straits Cold Decker. I don't know the story as to the whys, but many years later it was decided that Rivtow Straits would build a log barge with cranes and grapples capable of loading an entire log bundle ( truckload) in a single lift - the Rivtow Hercules was born, and a dedicated tug was built to tow it, named the Rivtow Capt Bob."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping
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