Bingamon

This log barge, converted from an unfinished wartime freighter, was equipped with cranes and winches for unloading cargo and was designed to transport logs from the Queen Charlotte Islands to mainland mills during the winter months. Insurance on ordinary log rafts and Davis Rafts was difficult or impossible to obtain during the winter months. On July 06, 1928 this vessel suffered a fire at Muchalat Inlet, Nootka Sound BC Canada. On December 29, 1929, in tow of the tug Czar, this vessel went ashore near Sand Heads in dense fog while carrying a cargo of logs. River currents took her up on the sand. Some of the logs were removed and this vessel was temporarily freed only to ground again.

In 1928 while owned by Cape Scott (Coyle Towing Ltd., Vancouver BC) this vessel was sunk as a breakwater at Wreck Beach Vancouver. Kyle Stubbs stated (Email to Nauticapedia 26/02/2026) "Captain Wingate, dba Pacific Log Transport Co owned a barge converted from a WWI emergency program freighter called BINGAMON (Canada ON 152550). Though that hull was built by Sanderson and Porter at Raymond, WA Willapa Bay, according to The Seattle Star of July 5, 1919, the incomplete BINGAMON had been shifted from the Willapa to Seattle's "Lake Union yards," presumably with the intention to outfit her engines if she had ever been completed."