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Histoire
This yacht, power-cruiser was built in 1915 by George S. Lawley & Sons Corp. in Neponset, MA.
Notes historiques
On October 11, 1947 while under command of Captain Jack Craddock this vessel was wrecked off Powell River BC on Dinner Rock.
They left Westview at 7:30pm bound for Refuge Cove. At 8:30pm they hit the rock while the Second Mate was on watch. The vessel hit Dinner Roc k at speed and climbed high in the air as they came to rest with the stern submerged. In two and half hours 32 survivors were pulled off Dinner rock by the cool action of the crew of the fishboat Betty L. under Captain Robin West. Mrs. Katherine Elliott, Lyle Elliott; Mrs. Sylvia Fleck, Jeanie Pavid, and Douglas Lipsett were lost.
Propriétaires et capitaines
In 1915 she was owned by USA interests.
In 1917 she was commissioned as USS Wenonah.
In 1919 she was transferred to US Department of Commerce Coast & Geodetic Survey.
In 1922 she was transferred to the United States Navy on the west coast.
In 1928 she was removed from the Navy list.
In 1929 she was owned by H.W. Goodall, Santa Barbara CA.
In 1929 she was renamed as Stranger.
She was owned by Mrs. Marian Huntingdon, San Francisco CA.
In 1935 she was owned by Fred E. Lewis, Los Angeles CA.
She was purchased in the name of E.A. Riddell by the Royal Canadian Navy to be used as an armed yacht.
In 1940 she was commissioned as H.M.C.S. Wolf as Canadian Naval Yacht, Armed, on training and patrol duty.
In 1940-1945 she was attached to the Esquimalt Defence Force.
In 1943 she was an Examination Vessel.
In 1945 she was paid-off, sold and she was renamed as the Gulf Stream.
In 1947 she was owned by Gulf Lines Ltd. Vancouver BC Canada.
Capitaines
LT John Alexander Gow, RCNR (02 Oct 1940 - 21 Apr 1941); Chief Skpr James McNeil Richardson, RCNR (22 Apr 1941 - 18 Sep 1941); Skipper-LT Walter Raymond Chaster, RCNR (06 Oct 1941 - 21 Apr 1943); Skipper-LT George Francis Cassidy, RCNR (22 Apr 1943 - 22 May 1943); Skipper-LT Walter Raymond Chaster, RCNR (23 May 1943 - 16 May 1945); Captain Frank Peterson (1947); Captain Jack Craddock (1947);
Armement
one 12 pound gun and one two pound gun.
Reconstructions
In 1947 she was re-engined and re-built for conversion to passenger and small freight trade.
Remotorisation
In 1947 she was re-engined.
Références
- Merchant Vessels of the United States (1916)
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- Freeman, David J. (2000)
- Canada List of Shipping
- List of Shipping Casualties Resulting in Total Loss in British Columbia and Coastal Waters Since 1897 (undated manuscript document)
- The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver BC) Tuesday October 14, 1947 page 15
- The Province (Vancouver BC) Tuesday October 14, 1947 page 19
- Merchant Vessels of the United States (1935)
