Ship Details

YSF-217

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Photo Credit: George Schneider

 
 
Registry #1 818988 (Canada) Registry #2 YSF.217 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1955 YSF-217 Name 6
Name 2 1997 John T. Nadin Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1955 Place Esquimalt Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 104.5' x 18.0' x ?
Builder Yarrows Ltd. Measurement (metric) 30.27m x 5.53m x 5.00m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 103 Type 1 Freighter
Registered Tonnage 30 Type 2 Yacht, power-cruiser
Engine 2-170bhp diesel engines (1955) Engine Manufacture Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria IL USA
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # YSF.217 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1955-1996 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1997-2003 she was owned by Rudan Developments Ltd., Powell River BC Canada. In 2011-2014 she was owned by Mark R. Clay, Roberts Creek BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2014-04-23
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel used to operate from HMCS Quadra for Sea Cadet training purposes. After being sold around 2004 this vesselworked as a live fish carrier in Baynes Sound BC. Christian Krajewski (British Columbia Nautical History Facebook Group 17/02/2021) stated " On July 5, 1976, at 1 p.m., a two-seater interceptor CF-101 VOODOO crashed at sea a few seconds after takeoff, 6 nautical miles off Cape Lazo. The next day, YSF 217 was requisition with her crew and equipped with a SIDE SCAN sonar, a deepwater camera, a LORAN receiver and the addition of 5 Regular forces personnel from MARLANT. After 6 days, YSF located the Voodoo that had crash, killing the pilot Capt Les Cox and the navigator Capt Roy Smith. The Pandora II, arrived on the scene, on July 11, with the Pisces V deepwater submersible in her hangar."
 
References
McLaren, T.A. & Vickie Jensen (2000); A.D. Baker (comp.) (1999); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
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