Story
This tug was built in 1914c in Hull.
Historical Notes
The Canadian steam tug Pharron was sold by the Metropole Transportation Co. to Ocean Foods Co., a new British Columbia fishing firm, and converted lo a long-line halibut power schooner with a 50-horsepower gas engine, renamed Cape Scott. (Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1915, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p.255.) In May 1933 this vessel was stranded in in the Sechelt Rapids. This vessel was dismantled in 1946 at British Columbia Marine Ways. Her engine was transferred to Pacific (Coyle) tug Newington. Her hull was beached at Oyster Bay for use as a breakwater.
Owners & Masters
In 1915 she was sold by the Metropole Transportation Co. to Ocean Foods Co.
She was converted to a long-line Halibut powered schooner. (She was a North Sea trawler owned by the Canadian Fishing Co.
She was owned by Captain B.L. ‘Barney’ Jones. In c1945 she was owned by Pacific (Coyle) Navigation), Vancouver BC Canada.
Masters
Captain B. Barry
Named Features
Celestial Bluff (BC)
Rebuilds
She was converted to a powered long-line Halibut schooner.
Repower
Repowered in 1915 with a 50hp engine
References
- Newell, G. (1977)
- Dalzell, Kathleen E. (1973)
- Newell, Dianne. (1989)
