Ship Details

DOS Explorer

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Photo Credit: George Schneider

 
 
Registry #1 (Liberia Registry) Registry #2 MSA.112 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1973 Lady Joyce (II) Name 6 (nk) Silver Star
Name 2 1974 Joyce Tide Name 7 (nk) Ramco I
Name 3 1988 Moresby (H.M.C.S.) Name 8 (nk) Ramco Express
Name 4 (nk) Malbun Name 9 (nk) DOS Explorer
Name 5 (nk) Echo Star Name 10
 
Year Built 1973 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer IOS/McLaren & Sons Measurement (imp) 191' x 43' x 17'
Builder Allied Shipbuilders Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 1076 Type 1 Tug, supply
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 1050bhp SF16RSF-4 engine Engine Manufacture Nohab Polar
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # MSA.112 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1973 she was owned by International Offshore. In 1988 she was purchased from Tidewater Liberia Inc. She was a Canadian Naval Anticosti-class minesweeping auxiliary vessel in service with the Canadian Navy 1989-2000, based at Halifax NS Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2002-00-00
 
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References
A.D. Baker (comp.) (1999); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Freeman, David J. (2000); Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1993);
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