1926 Charles R. Huntley 1968 (2003)
Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter
Built at Old Kilpatrick Scotland by Napier & Miller, Hull 255
Launched
261’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’1” beam, 20’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1000 IHP
Enrolled at Glasgow Scotland
253.1 x 43.2 x 17.9, 1760 GT, 1304 NT Br 148898 to:
Eastern Steamship Co., Port Colborne ON, Boland & Cornelius, Mgr. (home port Glasgow Scotland)
Entered service 1926
Enrollment transferred to Canada 1931 Can 148898 (home port to St. Catharines ON)
Sold April 1936 to Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Co., Toronto ON
Transferred 1952 to Leitch Transport Ltd. (home port to Toronto ON)
Sold 1960 to McNamara Construction Ltd., Toronto ON
Converted to sand dredge, Whitby ON
Remeasured to 1733 GT, 1186 NT
Repowered 1966 with diesel outdrive engines
Transferred 1968 to off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Renamed BV Rayna 1993
Scrapped 2003 Matane QC
IMO 5068772
See history in Scanner Jan 2004 (#281)
Also in Detroit Marine Historian May 1984 (#2)
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The M.V. Charles R. Huntley 148898 was purchased by Alexander Humes Ltd. in 1988 & was used for dredging the St. John, NB harbor in the fall/winter of 1988. She then make her way to Shelbourne to winter there. In the spring of 1989 she had the 2 harbor master drives (Detroit Diesel 12V71’s) replaced with Detroit Diesel V92 engines, she also had a 12 cyl. Caterpillar main drive as well as a 6 cyl Detroit Diesel bow thruster. The dredge pump was powered by a Detroit Diesel 16V71. A 100HP electric jet pump was added to the dredge head at the same time as the V92’s.. She spent the summer of 1989 dredging in the St. Lawrence seaway east of Quebec City. In October of 1989 while making her way to berth at Shelbourne, NS she encountered a storm somewhere off of the coast Halifax where in the hull was fractured in 4 areas due to the rough seas (this was the same storm which the movie Perfect Storm was based on, add the end of the movie their was not mention of the 13 Canadian fisherman that lost there lives in that same storm). She made her way to Halifax with a list to starboard for emergency repairs to the hull. After which she went on to Shelbourne where after which she was purchased by another company & was used for dredging for 1 more season I believe & then she was scrapped afterwards. I was the electrician onboard during this period of time.