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Q071

Posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 in ---Q070 to Q079

H.W. Patterson collection

H.W. Patterson collection

Builder:

Star Shipyards (Mercer’s) Ltd.

New-Westminster, B.C.

Commissioned:

April 15, 1942

Launched:

October 6, 1941

Disposal:

November 7, 1945

Career:

Sold November 2, 1945 by WAC to Gulf Lines Ltd. Vancouver and renamed Gulf Wing (#176497).

Owner 1954:  Marine Express Lines Ltd., Vancouver, as passenger and small-freight service , West Coast and Gulf Islands.

Eng. :  2 Vivian Eng. Works, Vancouver oil engines 640 H.P.

Feb., 1958 – Sunk near Alert Bay, B.C. raised and sold.

Owner 19??: Oswald H. New & Co., Vancouver. Renamed Troubadour III.

Owner 19??: Tidewater Shipping Co. Ltd., Vancouver and renamed Nimpkish Princess.

Owner 1969:  Northland Shipping (1962) Ltd., Vancouver and renamed Northland Princess, as a yacht.

Owner 1980:  Pacific Adventures Enterprises Ltd., Vancouver and renamed Kona Winds, as a yacht.

Owner 2002:  Kona Winds Yacht Charter Ltd.( capt.Bruce Kerr), Vancouver.

website: www.konawindscharters.com

Sept. 2009-  Moored in Gibsons, B.C.

Owner June 3, 2011: 0908312 B.C. Ltd. Powell River B.C. and  renamed Knight Time II.  Used as a base camp for a log sort in Hotham Sound, B.C.

Dec. 2015: rumor heard recentky that the boat had sunk but no details.

Other pictures of Q071

Star Shipyards, New-Westminster, B.C., about 1942, H.W. Patterson collection

Star Shipyards, New-Westminster, B.C., summer 1942, H.W. Patterson collection

Gulf Wing

Origin unknown

Gerald Rushton collection-Illustrated History of the Union Steamship Company

Off Powell River B.C. origin unknown

Off Powell River B.C. origin unknown

West Vancouver Art Museum collection

Troubadour III

missing2

Nimpkish Princess

Vancouver Dec. 27, 1960. City of Vancouver Archives (CVA 447-7173) / Walter E. Frost collection

Northland Princess

July 17, 1964. City of Vancouver Archives (CVA 447-7173.1) / Walter E. Frost collection

Kona Winds

Don Houghton collection

Don Houghton collection

August 25, 1985. Cruising in Vancouver, B.C., René Beauchamp collection.

August 25, 1985. Cruising in Vancouver, B.C. René Beauchamp collection

Barbara Coast Marina, Vancouver, B.C. September 2002, Author collection

Barbara Coast Marina, Vancouver, B.C. September 2002. Author collection

Setember 2002, the author at the wheel on the way back from Indian Arm, Vancouver, B.C., author collection

Setember 2002, the author at  wheel of Kona Winds on the way back from Indian Arm, Vancouver, B.C. Author collection

Vancouver, B.C. Origin unknown

Vancouver, B.C. Origin unknown

Knight Time II


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