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G.H.C. No. 1

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Registry #1 151174 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1924 Fort Ross (I) Name 6
Name 2 1931c G.H.C. No. 1 Name 7
Name 3 2004c V.P.D. No. 11 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1924 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 66.7' x 24.1' x 5.7'
Builder Crane, George H. Measurement (metric) 20.3m x 7.3m x 1.7m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 75.99 Type 1 Barge
Registered Tonnage 75.99 Type 2
Engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Non-powered
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1931 she was owned by Dan King, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1958-1961 she was owned by Vancouver Pile Driving & Contracting Co. Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada. In 1967 she was owned by Vancouver Pile Driving & Contracting Co. Ltd., North Vancouver BC Canada. In 1979-1980 she was owned by Seaforth Towing and Salvage Ltd., Port Moody BC Canada. In 2004-2010 she was owned by Graham D.L. Harder, Port Coquitlam BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2010-03-23
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
"We anchored at Holman Island on September 4 and I recognized Andrew and Jorgen Klengenberg's boats tied to the beach by the Hudson's Bay warehouse. I blew the whistle a couple of times but no sign of life, and this I found to be very strange. The reason for this cool welcome turned out to be the fact that the Hudson's Bay ship Fort Ross had been in port busily unloading cargo for the settlement, and everybody had worked around the clock and had just gone off to sleep. This was a little bit of history: two Canadian ships had met after a complete circumnavigation of the North American continent, for the Fort Ross had left Halifax three months before and gone through the Panama Canal, up the west coast to Vancouver and then continued until it reached the point where we now anchored, having come from Halifax via the northern route!" It became the most northerly post office in the world in 1932 when Craig Harbour was abandoned.
 
References
Larsen, Henry, Frank Sheer & Edward Omholt-Jensen (1967); Canada List of Shipping;
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