Category:IMO 5388158
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Ship
[edit]- Type: YMS-1 class minesweeper, then fishing vessel
- Built by: Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington
- Yard number:
- Keel laid: 1943.01.07
- Launched: 1943.04.24
- Completed: 1943.09.20
- Length overall: 41.46 m
- Beam: 7.5 m
- GT: 246.94
- DWT:
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- www.navsource.org
- www.nauticapedia.ca
- www.nauticapedia.ca
- archives.richmond.ca
- Mercantile Navy List and Maritime Direct, 1949
History
[edit]- 1943 Named YMS-297; Flag: United States
- 1946.10.08 Struck from naval register
- 1947 Renamed Western Express; Flag: Canada
- Official number: 179082
- Call sign: VYXX
- Port: Vancouver
- Owner: Nelson Brothers Fisheries Ltd., Vancouver
- 1967 Owner: Unknown
- 1970s Owner: British Columbia Packers Ltd., Richmond, British Columbia
- Call sign: VYXX
- Port: Vancouver
- 1984 Owner: Unknown
- 2004 Owner: Timo Kaakinen, Delta, British Columbia
- 2011 Registry closed
- 2017.01 Sank at berth in Fraser River, Delta, British Colombia
- 2017.08 Scrapped in place
Subcategories
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- Western Express (ship, 1943) (1 F)