Name: | BRULIN |
Type: | Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 31/07/1924 |
Completed: | 08/1924 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Hebburn |
Yard Number: | 949 |
Dimensions: | 2241grt, 1576nrt, 248.0 x 43.0 x 22.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (18, 30 & 49 x 36ins), 180nhp |
Engines by: | MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 148087 |
History: | |
27/08/1924 | Bruce Lindsay Bros Ltd (W Crawford & Co), Newcastle |
1931 | Managers became Carter & Wood, Montreal |
1932 | Registered at Montreal |
1934 | Manager became RA Carter, Montreal |
1940 | Quebec & Ontario Transportation Co Ltd, Montreal; renamed OUTARDE |
1960 | Buckport Shipping Co Ltd (James Buckler), Montreal |
1960 | Renamed JAMES J BUCKLER |
16/06/1960 | Sank |
Comments: | 08/1925: Grounded at the head of the Morrisburg Canal. Refloated |
15/07/1926: Collided with & sank tug EMMA L. Two tugmen died | |
16/10/1932: Grounded & holed on Seven Acre Shoal, Lake Ontario | |
Subsequently refloated, after a cargo lightening operation and repaired | |
30/11/1945: Damaged & sank at berth at Clayton NY during a storm | |
18/04/1946: Refloated & repaired at Kingston | |
1959: Sold for scrap but then resold for further service | |
13/06/1960: Stranded on Red Islet Shoal off the Saguenay River | |
On a voyage from Shelter Bay to Thorold with a cargo of pulpwood | |
Although she refloated herself she had to be beached again due to flooding | |
16/06/1960: Hull cracked in two during salvage operations and sank |
Above photo as BRULIN is copyright as per details on photo