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Onerka (I)

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Registry #1 156635 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1930 Onerka (I) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1930 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Robert Allan Measurement (imp) 52' x 12' x ?
Builder Boeing Aircraft (Canada) Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement 15
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Patrol Vessel
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 105hp 6-cylinder gasoline engine (1929) Engine Manufacture Gleniffer Engines Ltd., Glasgow Scotland
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1930 she was owned by the Fisheries Protection Service of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1930-07-26
 
Named Features
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Anecdotes
This vessel was based in Fisheries District Number 2 (QCI and Skeena River). On July 26, 1930 this vessel exploded when her engine backfired in Masset Inlet BC two miles south of the Watun River Cannery, on Graham Island BC. Rescuers were beaten back by the intense heat of the flames. The fire developed so quickly the crew (Captain Smith and Engineer D. Woods) barely had time to get in the launch and row safely to the beach.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 14 (1931); List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); The Province (Vancouver BC) Saturday August 2, 1930 page 1;
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