Ship Details

Daerwood

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 
 
Registry #1 177605 (Canada) Registry #2 J.357 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 Daerwood (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1946 Daerwood Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 114.3' x 22' x 10.3'
Builder Vancouver Shipyards Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 189 Type 1 Minesweeper, Llewellyn-class
Registered Tonnage 94 Type 2
Engine 500hp diesel engine (1944) Engine Manufacture Vivian Diesel & Munitions Ltd., Vancouver BC
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign VYCT
Pendant  # J.357 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1944-1945 she was serving in the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1946-1949 she was owned by Jens C. Nielsen (MO), Vancouver BC Canada. In 1949-1953 she was owned by Kenneth Campbell and Karl Anderson, Prince George BC Canada. In 1953-1975 she was owned by Karl Anderson, Prince George BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1975-04-01
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
After the Second World War this vessel was placed in the ship boneyard at Bedwell Bay BC. On October 13, 1973 this vessel caught fire and capsized five miles west of Barbados WI. The master and two crew members drowned.
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t11861/273?r=0&s=5 ;
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