Ship Details
Messenger II Photo Credit: Unknown (newspaper photo)

 

Registry #1	(Canada)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	1935	Messenger II	Name 6
Name 2			Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	1935	Place	New Westminster	Area	BC	Country	Canada

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	? x ? x ?
Builder	Huddlestone, Reginald	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	Wood	Displacement
Gross Tonnage		Type 1	Mission Boat
Registered Tonnage		Type 2
Engine		Engine Manufacture	(nk)
Repower		Propulsion	Screw
Rebuilds		Call Sign
Pendant  #		Masters	Dr. H.A. MacLean (1948);

 

Owner(s)
In 1935-1948 she was owned by the Shanteyman's Christian Mission for the Nootka Hospital.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	1948-01-02

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes
This vessel was owned by the Nootka Hospital as a mission boat and on 02/01/1948 this vessel was returning from Kyuquot with Dr. H.A. MacLean and his son Bruce on board. This vessel was wrecked in a storm at the mouth of the inlet. Bruce MacLean was drowned and the father clung onto a rock awash all night and was rescued by the Co-operative No. 2.

 

References
Nicholson, George (1965); Photo discovered by Christopher J, Cole;
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