Ship Details

Arctic Lady

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Photo Credit: Hartmut Hecht

 
 
Registry #1 156579 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1934 Dease Lake Name 6
Name 2 1963 Arctic Lady Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1934 Place Fort Smith Area NT Country Canada
 
Designer Captain John Matheson Measurement (imp) 80.9' x 20.0' x 5.8'
Builder Northern Boat Building Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) 9.4m x 6.1m x 1.8m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 95.04 Type 1 Tug
Registered Tonnage 37.49 Type 2 Passenger vessel
Engine 2-120hp 240hp engines (1934) Engine Manufacture Fairbanks Morse Co., Beloit WI USA
Repower Repowered in 1944 with 2-145bhp diesel engine (1958c) Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign VCWF
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1934-1948 she was owned by Hudson's Bay Co., London UK. In 1948-1963 she was owned by the McInnes Products Corporation Ltd., Edmonton AB Canada. In 1964-2008 she was owned by Robert E. Harcourt, Edmonton AB Canada.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2008-03-10
 
Named Features
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Anecdotes
Neil Gower (Email to Nauticapedia 06/07/2024) states "You mention it was owned by Robert Harcourt. That may well be legally but I am told by Gordon Gill that this tug was owned or at least operated by YT (Yellowknife Transportation). Gordon Gill refers to Earl Harcourt as majority owner but he doesn't know if that is the same person as Robert Harcourt. Gordon said Earl Harcourt was the captain of this tug at least for the summer Gordon Gill was the engineer. He doesn't recall which year. "It was the year they cut the trees for the phone line to Inuvik"." Jim Delancey (in a 2024 email to Neil Gower stated "Originally called the Dease Lake. In 1963 it was owned by Yellowknife Transportation Company on Great Slave Lake and operating under the name Arctic Lady. In 1966, it was planned to use the boat, together with the 'Liard River' boat, to ferry tourists from Yellowknife to the Frontier Fishing Tours camp near Snowdrift (Lutselk'e) on Great Slave Lake. It operated as a luxury tour boat for approximately five years and then sold to Menzies Fisheries as a fish cleaning station, first at Dawson Landing, Marnine Point and finally, in 1969, at Moose Bay on the North Arm of Great Slave Lake, where it was abandoned. Ruins of the boat are still visible today in Moose Bay. According to the official registry, from 1979 to 2004 it was owned by Robert Harcourt of Edmonton, Alberta."
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=6346485&q=ship%20registration%20156579&ecopy=e011449040 (website viewed 11/02/2025); George Duddy (research notes 2025) Vessels Designed or Built by Captain John Matheson;
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