Ship Details

Radium Franklin

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Photo Credit: Dirk Septer

 
 
Registry #1 194887 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 5288889 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1951 Radium Franklin Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1951 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer German, Milne & Gilmore Measurement (imp) 69.0' x 24.7' x 4.6'
Builder Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. Measurement (metric) 21.03m x 7.50m x 1.40m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 102.59 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 69.76 Type 2
Engine 2-oil 452bhp diesel 4-cylinder 2SA engines (1951) Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1951-2014 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 2016-2019 she was owned by The Commissioner of the NWT Department of Public Works & Services, Yellowknife NT Canada. In 2019 she was donated to the Hay River Museum Society, Hay River NT Canada.
 
Fate Museum collection Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel had an aluminum superstructure. This vessel towed barges on the Bear River and on Great Bear Lake and the Mackenzie River carrying supplies in to mine sites and uranium out. This vessel appears to have been built in Vancouver BC by Allied Shipbuilders and assembled by Western Bridge & Steel Fabricators Ltd. This vessel appears (in 2019) to be dryberthed.
 
References
McLaren, T.A. & Vickie Jensen (2000); Canada List of Shipping
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