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NORANGO

Shipbuildervessel built by John Lewis & Sons (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1907 - 1976)

Date1959

Object NameYACHT

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 135 1/3' x breadth 26 7/12' x depth 14 3/12'
Gross Tonnage: 453ton

Object numberABDSHIP000230

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Lewis & Sons.
Yard Number: 288
Subsequent Names: SEA SEARCH (1962); OCEAN SELECTOR (1979).

Fate: Destroyed by fire alongside at Vancouver, British Columbia, 2008.

Propulsion: Motor
Description: Yacht, machinery aft, 1 deck.

Owners:
1959: initial owners unknown, registered Panama.
Date unknown: F. Griffiths.
1968: Tri-Continental Investments, Montreal, Canad.
1974: H. Schmidt.
1979: Ocean Selector Fisheries Ltd, Vancouver.

General History:
Later used as a small passenger vessel between Miami, Florida and the Bahamas. Purchased by Mr Frank Griffiths of Vancouver, she was used for seabed oil exploration until she was wrecked at Aliford Bay in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1969.

She was converted in 1963 from a yacht to a side fishing vessel until 1969 when she reverted back to the name NORANGO.

1969: "NORANGO, 153-foot motor yacht owned by Tricontinental Investments of Nassau, struck rocks and sank in 40 feet of water while approaching the dock at Alliford Bay in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Capt. Ed Phillips and the three crew members were able to reach shore in a lifeboat.
(Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1969, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.71.")

1974: Raised by a Vancouver salvage team, the ship has been bought by Mr Henry Schmidt of Surrey, BC, who is having her converted to work as a trawler.
(Fishing News)

Still in register, 2003-04.

Note: Engine number 358, British Polar type M45M, classed L.R. until May 1963.