Ship Details

Vic Ingraham

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Photo Credit: Loch McJannett

 
 
Registry #1 344735 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# 8635241 MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1970 Vic Ingraham Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1970 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Robert Allan Ltd. Measurement (imp) 149.5' x 50' x 8.5'
Builder Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. Measurement (metric) 45.66m x 15.24m x 2.62m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 711.21 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 483.62 Type 2
Engine 4-4,500bhp diesel engines (1970) Engine Manufacture Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria IL USA
Repower Propulsion 4 Screws
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1970-1994 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 1995-2011 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Hay River NT Canada. In 2012-2016 she was owned by Northern Transportation Co. Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 2017-2019 she was owned by the Department of Public Works and Services, Commissioner of the NWT, Yellowknife NT Canada. In 2020-2022 she was owned by the Government of the Northwest Territory, Department of Infrastructure, Yellowknife NT Canada.
 
Fate Afloat in 2022 Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Vic Ingraham, a pioneer Yellowknife businessman of the 1930s–40s.
 
Anecdotes
Her deckhouse was constructed by Bel-Aire Shipyards Ltd. On a subcontract for Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. This vessel was built for Mackenzie River service. The Scouts website states "Vic Ingraham Vic Ingraham was born an American in 1896, like many others, he came north to seek his fortune. Whilst barging supplies to Port Radium on Great Bear Lake in 1933, the tug carrying Vic Ingraham and three other men hit rough weather. When they tried to refuel, gasoline sloshed against a red-hot exhaust pipe and the tug caught fire. Ingraham plunged into the engine room to try and rescue two crewmen trapped below, and his hands and feet were severely burned. Ingraham and the surviving mate went over the side in a rubber life raft built for one man. For two days they drifted in an icy gale before reaching shore. Ingraham lost both his legs to that misadventure. With the first gold strikes in Yellowknife, Ingraham was back in the North. He set up and prospered as a trader in the new community, building Yellowknife's first hotel, then a bigger one, and a third. They called him "Old Cedarfoot" for his creaky artificial wooden limbs. Ingraham drank with bush pilots, celebrated with lucky prospectors and grub-staked down-and-outers. He never learned how to turn a man down."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; http://www.ykscouts.ca/ScoutProperties/IngrahamTrailHistory/tabid/74/Default.aspx; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingraham_Trail;
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