Ship Details

Northern Dawn

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Photo Credit: Bernard Remmem

 
 
Registry #1 313063 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN# 21488
 
Name 1 1961 Northern Dawn Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1961 Place Dollarton Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 72.0' x 20.5' x ?
Builder Matsumoto & Sons Shipyards Ltd. Measurement (metric) 23.56m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 122 Type 1 Fishboat, general
Registered Tonnage 83 Type 2
Engine 2-340hp diesel engines (tandem mounted) Engine Manufacture General Motors Corporation, Detroit MI USA
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters Captain John Johnson (1961); Captain George H. Olafson;
 
Owner(s)
In 1961-1977 she was owned by Bounty Fishing Co. Ltd., Prince Rupert BC Canada. In 1978-1984 she was owned by Neptune Fishing Ltd., Olafson Enterprises Ltd., and Bounty Fishing Co. Ltd., Prince Rupert BC Canada. In 1985-1987 she was owned by Olafson Enterprises Ltd., Prince Rupert BC Canada. In 1988-2001 she was owned by Jusden Fishing Ltd., Prince Rupert BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2001-10-18
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel is considered by many to be the last (or one of the last) big wooden fishboat to be built on the BC coast. This vessel was christened by Sonja Hansen (cousin of the skipper). Lenny Olafson (Email to Nauticapedia 06/12/2021) stated "Their halibut catches broke records that remain today." James Mackovjak (Gustavus, Alaska) stated "Believed to be the largest catch of halibut yet to be landed on the Pacific Coast, 182,000 lbs. was unloaded at Prince Rupert in May for nearly $60,000. This vessel (Northern Dawn) not only delivered the top catch this season, but last July set the previous record, with a catch of 162,300 lbs. Northern Dawn’s catch was made near the Shumagin Islands, in Western Alaska. The vessel stayed in Area 3B for 46 days and landed her first catch of 120,000 lbs. at Sand Point, Alaska, for the account of the Prince Rupert Fishermen’s Co-operative Association, which also bought the record load a few weeks later. Price paid for the catch averaged 32 cents a pound. (“‘Northern Dawn’s’ 182,000-lb. Trip Sets New Halibut Record,” Pacific Fisherman (July 1962): 15.)"
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Armitage, Doreen (2007); Western Fisheries June 1961 Page 15;
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