Category:H1 Canada (ship, 1886)

Ship edit

• Built by: Cochrane Hamilton Cooper Schofield - Beverley
• Yard Number: 14
• Launched: July 1886
• Length: 35.7 m
• Breadth: 6.8 m
• Draught: 3.4 m
• Tons Gross: 231
• Tons Net: 103
• Engine: C D Holmes, 50 hp
• Speed: 10 kn
• Off Number: 93089

History edit

• 1886.08.27 Named: CANADA H1 for Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd Flag: United Kingdom
• 1890.06.08 North Sea. Stay bolts gave way - agreed with SS Fishtoft of Boston to tow to Hull for 100.
• 1893.09.26 North Sea. Slight damage to deck & Bulk head burned. Coal caught fire spontaneously in the bunker
• 1895.02.08 Billingsgate London. Collision with steam tug.
• 1895.09.16 Lengthened 40.3 m Re registered 231 G tons - 126 N tons - Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd
• 1896.07.25 Collision North Sea. Starboard bulwark quarter stove in. The SS Nixe of Geestimunde struck vessel on the starboard quarter
• 1899.01.30 Collision Gravesend - Damage done to schooner H Thompson of Hull. Carried away his bowsprit. SS canada boat stove in and starboard quarter rail. Laid alongside the schooner H Thompson and leaving the schooner, his anchor caught the starboard rail dragging the ship across his bows.
• 1900.01.22 Collision Gravesend - Stern frame & one plate damaged. Driving astern into the Hull Trawler Swallow H97 the engines stuck & refused to work in time.
• 1901.10.26 Collision River Thames - Damaged port quarter plate. Thick fog, stern came in contact with the SS Gl[?]wood stern.
• 1902.01.09 Collision Entrance of River Thames. Damaged bows, SS Huguenot of Newcastle, colliding whilst riding at the anchor.
• 1903.04.06 North Sea. Lost the propeller. Tail end of the shaft broke.
• 1904.07.22 Collision whilst in the act of going alongside of the Hulk, Countess of Erne collided with the coal schooner Pet damaging her taffelrail and stern.
• 1904.12.23 Collision 5pm whilst coming up the River Thames collided with the sailing barge Northumberland slightly damaging the barges quarter it being foggy at the time
• 1907.10.03 Collision with the Norwegian Barque Constance
• 1908.01.31 North Sea. Lost mizen boom, cabin sky- light. Boat and slight damage to deck. Shipped a heavy sea.
• 1912.10.17 Collision. Run into by the Cornrake[?] of London she going at too great a rate of speed.
• 1916 Requisitioned by the Admiralty Renamed: CANADA II Owners 02 - 1917 - renamed Admiralty
• 1919 Returned by Admiralty to owners. Name reverted: CANADA H1
• 1919.05.28 Sold to W A Massey & Sons Ltd Hull
• 1919.06.07 Sold to William John & Sydney Peck , Herivel Guernsey Converted to Coaster ( W Howard Guernsey ) Renamed: CANADA
• 1919.07.12 Hull Register Closed - No longer fishing
• 1925.02.19 Abandoned and sank after hitting a ice floe on passage from Yarmouth Nova Scotia to Bermuda