Story
This patrol vessel was built in 1913 by John I. Thorneycroft & Co. Ltd., Southampton UK in Woolston, Southampton.
Historical Notes
In 1958 this vessel was reported to have been broken up.
Owners & Masters
In 1913-1914 she was a Canada Customs & Excise Service Examination Vessel.
In 1914 she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as a Canadian Naval Patrol Vessel, In Royal Canadian Navy service 1915-1919.
In 1932 she was a Canada Customs & Excise Service Examination Vessel.
In 1932 she was owned by F.R. Zimmerman, Brooklyn NY she was acquired for the Brazilian state of São Paulo, which named her Ruth, during the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. Confiscated by the Brazilian government, she was renamed Rio Branco and was converted to a hydrographic survey ship for the Brazilian Navy in 1934. After serving as a coastal escort vessel in World War II, the Rio Branco returned to hydrographic work and was discarded in 1957 or 1958.
Masters
Captain Frederick Claude Coote Pasco, RN (1915); Cdr (Temp) Burrard Archibald Smith, RCN (1915); Lt Alfred John May, RNCVR (1917-1918)
Armament
Two six-pound until 1927, then one six-pound and seventeen rifles.
Repower
She was originally coal-burning but later converted to oil 1924-1925.
References
- Canada List of Shipping
- McDougall, David J. (1995) The Origins and Growth of the Canadian Customs Preventive Service Fleet in the Maritime Provinces and Eastern Quebec 1892-1932) (In The Northern Mariner October 1995)
- www.forposterityssake.ca ↗
- Email (Bryon Taylor - Nauticapedia 18/11/2018)
