Engineering:FV Silver King
| History | |
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 Canada
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| Name: | Silver King |
| Port of registry: | Wedgeport, Nova Scotia |
| Fate: | Collision with Ocean Rockswift on August 22, 1967 |
| General characteristics | |
| Length: | 55 ft (17 m)[1] |
| Sail plan: | Seiner |
The FV Silver King was a Canadian herring seiner based out of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia.
Collision and sinking
On August 22, 1967, the 233-ton tugboat Ocean Rockswift was heading back to its home port of Saint John, New Brunswick. Silver King was out at sea on a herring fishing trip.[2] Around midnight, the tugboat struck Silver King about nine miles off the coast of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.[3] Silver King immediately flipped on its side and took on water.[2] Crew members from the seiner Dunville boarded the submerged vessel and cut a hole in the bow to rescue the lone survivor.[4][3] Less than 24 hours later, two scuba divers, Andy Wallace and Jack Hatfield, entered the submerged vessel through the hole and recovered six bodies.[5][2]
Casualties
Six crew members died in the incident, all were from Wedgeport.[5] The lone survivor was 27 year-old Robert Bruce "Bobby" McDowell of Hackensack, New Jersey who was vacationing in Wedgeport with his family.[3][5] His uncle, Captain Roderick Boudreau died in the accident.[3][6][7]
| Name | Age | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Captain Roderick Boudreau | [5] | |
| Edgar Boudreau | [5] | |
| Vernon Boudreau | [5] | |
| Stanis Bourque | [5] | |
| Camille LeBlanc | [5] | |
| Raymond LeBlanc | [5] |
Inquiry
An inquiry was held before Justice L. Ritchie of the New Brunswick Supreme Court.[8]
References
- ↑ "Death boat". Ottawa Citizen: p. 11. August 24, 1967. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19670824&id=esgyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w-wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2227,1847111&hl=en.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sinking of the Herring Seiner, 'Silver King' Lost to the Sea Memorial
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "6 Fisherman Die in Collission Off Nova Scotia Port". Toledo Blade (Toledo, Ohio): p. 3. August 23, 1967. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19670823&id=_WwUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eQEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4781,18756&hl=en.
- ↑ "Six Die as Boats Collide". Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa Citizen): p. 1. August 23, 1967. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19670818&id=ecgyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w-wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3966,1467583&hl=en.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Un accident de mer fair six victimes" (in French). Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse: p. 1. August 24, 1967. https://novascotia.ca/archives/newspapers/archives.asp?ID=5078.
- ↑ "6 Fishermen Die In Boat Collision". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania): p. 1. August 24, 1967.
- ↑ d'Entremont, Laurent (March 16, 2013). "The unforgiving sea". Kings County Advertiser (Kentville, Nova Scotia). Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161012221048/http://www.kingscountynews.ca/Opinion/Columnists/2013-03-16/article-3196804/The-unforgiving-sea/1. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ↑ "Tug Captain Recalls Fatal Collision". Montreal Gazette (Montreal, Quebec): p. 21. November 1, 1967. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19671101&id=xKUtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vJ8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=7333,110492&hl=en.
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