Ship Details

Sea Pride II (H.M.C.S.)

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Registry #1 172296 (Canada) Registry #2 Z.126 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1940 Sea Pride II (I) Name 6
Name 2 1942 Sea Pride II (H.M.C.S.) Name 7
Name 3 1944 Sea Pride II (II) Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1940 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 55.5' x 16.6' x 7.5'
Builder Stanley Park Shipyards Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 48 Type 1 Fishboat, seiner
Registered Tonnage 31 Type 2 Patrol vessel
Engine 75bhp diesel engine (1940) Engine Manufacture Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co., Oakland, CA
Repower Repowered with a 182bhp diesel engine Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, IL (1956); Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Z.126 Masters In 1943 Henry A. McKinnell (Skipper RCNR) in command; In 1944 Henry A. McKinnell (Skipper RCNR (FR)) in command
 
Owner(s)
In 1940 she was owned by Alfred McKinnell, Lasqueti Island, BC Canada. In 1942-1944 she was chartered by the Royal Canadian Navy as a Canadian Naval Patrol Vessel, Fishermen's Reserve. . In 1944 she was returned to her owner. In 1944 she was owned by Olegg Stavrokov, Victoria BC Canada. In 1949-1956 she was owned by Norman Sigmund (MO), New Westminster BC Canada. In 1956 she was sold to Blaine Myers Fishing & Packing Co., Ltd., Vancouver, BC Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1960-01-25
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was crewed with Fishermen's Reserve personnel but was not a part of the Fishermen's Reserve. This vessel was employed as a D.E.M.S. Training Vessel at Esquimalt and was armed with an Imperial Stock Oerlikon. In 1943 this vessel was a tender to H.M.C.S. Givenchy II. On October 25, 1960 this vessel foundered off Cape Mudge BC.
 
References
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (1993); Canada List of Shipping; Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Freeman, David J. (2000); Rogers, A.C. (Jr.) Shipwreck Chart No. 1; List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document); Email (Bryon Taylor-Nauticapedia 23/01/2019); RG24D-1-c Volume 6732 File 8000-480/11 General Information - HMCS SEA PRIDE II; RG12 Reel T-11919 (1961) (Sea Pride II);
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