Ship Details

Comber (H.M.C.S.)

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Registry #1 155102 (Canada) Registry #2 FY.37 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN# 25811
 
Name 1 1929 C.S.C. No. 2 Name 6
Name 2 1942 Comber (H.M.C.S.) Name 7
Name 3 1945 B.C. Girl (I) Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1929 Place Steveston Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Yasujiro Nakade Measurement (imp) 53.5' x 13.8' x 6.0'
Builder Nakade Boat Works (Yasujiro Nakade) Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 30.97 Type 1 Fishboat, seiner
Registered Tonnage 20.99 Type 2 Patrol vessel
Engine 1 – 80bhp 3nhp gasoline engine (1929) Engine Manufacture Standard Gas Engine Co., Oakland CA USA
Repower Repowered with a 3nhp engine; 115bhp diesel engine Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, IL (1947); Repowered with a 1 – 4nhp 250bhp diesel engine Cummins Engine Co., Inc., Columbia, IN (1975); Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign VCST
Pendant  # FY.37 Masters Coxswain Lawrence S. Veitch RCNR (1943-1944)
 
Owner(s)
In 1929 she was owned by Yoshisaburo Inonye, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1934-1942 she was owned by Tokutaro Tanaka, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1942 she was seized from Japanese owners for service with the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1942 her ownership was transferred to His Majesty the King for the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve. In 1945-1949 she was owned by Louie D. Summers, Vancouver BC Canada. She was renamed as B.C. Girl. In 1949-1959 she was owned by Donald Baker (MO), Vancouver BC and Stanley H. Coughland, Vancouver BC Canada. In 1959-1971 she was owned by George Berg (MO), Nanaimo BC Canada. In 1971-1977 she was owned by Anthony Drpic (MO), Vancouver, BC Canada. In 1977-1989 she was owned by Frank E. Alfred, Alert Bay BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1989-11-16
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
In 1941 this vessel was seized from her Japanese owners by the Canadian Government. In 1942 her ownership transferred to His Majesty the King. At the time this vessel was seized her appraised value was $7,500. In 1942 this vessel was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve.
 
References
Harbour & Shipping (Progress Publishing Co. Ltd.) Vol. 12 (1929); Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee. December 1942. Report of Japanese Fishing Vessels Disposal Committee. Vancouver BC; Canada List of Shipping; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); Bryon Taylor (Email to Nauticapedia 23/01/2019); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11930/82?r=0&s=4; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11926/132?r=0&s=5 ;; RG12 Reel T-11842 (1942) C.S.C. No. 2) RG12 Reel T-11575 (B. C. Girl); RG24 Volume 6726 File 8000-471/17 General Information - HMCS COMBER ; http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11926/132?r=0&s=5 ;
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