Histoire
This schooner, five-masted was built in 1920 by Matthews Ship Building Co. (Matthews, George F.) in Hoquiam, WA.
Notes historiques
In 1935 this vessel was owned by City Mill Co., Honolulu Hawaii USA. This vessel was one of the last two working sailing ships in the Pacific Northwest. (with the Comodore). This vessel was fitted out with new masts in 1936 and after being laid up from 1938 to 1940. While under command of Captain John Vosper (Former master of the five-masted schooner Malahat) this vessel made a round trip to Sydney Australia. Her final voyage was made in November 1942 with lumber for South Africa. Unable to round Cape Horn Captain Vosper put back for Valparaiso. This vessel was condemned there and sold to Chilean owners, who installed a gasoline engine for handling sails. The City of Alberni was the last foreign-going deep-sea commercial sailing vessel to sail under the Canadian flag. The Government of Canada honoured her service and that of Canada's other five-masted schooners, with a commemorative twelve-cent stamp printed in 1977.
In 1946 this vessel was destroyed by fire at sea off the coast of Argentina.
Propriétaires et capitaines
In 1920-1927 she was owned by the E.K. Wood Lumber Company, San Francisco CA USA.
In 1940 she was owned by the Canadian Transport Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of the H.R. MacMillan Lumber Co., Vancouver BC Canada.
In 1942 she was owned by Chilean owners.
Capitaines
Captain R.E. Peasley (1920-1927); Captain Charles H. Mellberg; Captain John Vosper (1940); Captain Raúl Bennewitz (1945);
Reconstructions
She came out of lay-up in 1940 and was refitted.
Références
- Canada List of Shipping
- Newell, Gordon (Ed.) (1966)
- merchantships.tripod.com ↗
- Lloyd's Register Vol. 1 1926-1927
- Andrews, Ralph W. & Harry A. Kirwin (1955) This Was Seafaring. Bonanza Books: New York NY
- recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca ↗ (website viewed 20/02/2025)
