Sankaty
Postcard image of the steamer Sankaty off of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.
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History | |
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Owner |
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Port of registry |
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Yard number | 192 |
Launched | February 2, 1911 |
Completed | April 1911 |
Out of service | 1964 |
Fate | Sunk in 1964 |
Canada | |
Name | Sankaty |
Acquired | 1940 |
Commissioned | September 24, 1940 |
Decommissioned | August 18, 1945 |
Fate | Returned to commercial service 1945 |
General characteristics as built | |
Tonnage | 677 GRT |
Length | 195 ft (59 m) |
Beam |
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Draught | 9.6 ft (2.9 m) |
Depth | 13 ft (4 m) |
Installed power | Triple expansion engine |
Propulsion | 2 propellers |
Speed | 14 knots (16 mph) |
Sankaty (a.k.a. HMCS Sankaty, a.k.a. Charles A. Dunning) was a propeller-driven steamer that served as a ferry to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; in Rockland, Maine; Stamford, Connecticut and Oyster Bay, Long Island in the United States from 1911 to 1940. During World War II, the ship was requisitioned by the Royal Canadian Navy for service as a minelayer and maintenance vessel along the Canadian Atlantic coast. Following the war the ship returned to a ferry, working the Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island and Caribou, Nova Scotia route in Canada from 1947 until 1964. While being towed to the breaker's yard, the ship sank off the coast of Nova Scotia on October 27, 1964.
Description
Sankaty was designed by Chauncey G. Whiton.
The ship was powered by a
Career
Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Ferry
Sankaty built by the
On February 20, 1917, she went ashore on Wilburs Point at Sconticut Neck near New Bedford, Massachusetts. The vessel was refloated, repaired and returned to service.[8]
1924 fire, Maine and New York Ferry Service
On the night of June 30, 1924, Sankaty caught fire and burned down to her steel hull while tied up overnight in
Sankaty was raised, sold and rebuilt with an open deck for use as a car ferry in
Canadian service and fate
In 1940 Sankaty was purchased by
After the war she was renamed Charles A. Dunning, and served from 1946 until 1964 in the waters between Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island and Caribou, Nova Scotia. During this period her capacity was twenty-three cars and four trucks.[14] She was sold for scrap in 1964, but sank en route to Sydney, Nova Scotia on October 27, 1964.[5]
The new Sankaty
In 1994,
Notes
- ^ a b c d Dayton, Fred Erving (1925), "Nantucket Sound", Steamboat Days, Frederick A. Stokes company, pp. 245–46
- ^ a b The Dukes County Intelligencer. Vol. 7, No. 4. May 1966
- ^ Douglas-Lithgow, Robert Alexander. Nantucket, A History G. P. Putnam, 1914.
- ^ a b c d The Dukes County Intelligencer. Vol. 24, No. 4. May 1983
- ^ a b c d e f g "Sankaty (2208399)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
- ^ "Steamer Tested by Naval Architects". The Technology Review. XIII (1). MIT Alumni Association: 173. January 1911.
- ^ "Records of the T.A. Scott Company, Inc". Mystic Seaport Museum Collections & Research. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
- American Neptune, 1941. Peabody & Essex Museum, Peabody Museum of Salem [1]
- ^ Sea Breezes. Vol. 56. Pacific Steam Navigation Company. November 1982.
- ^ Snow, Edward Rowe (1948). Mysteries and Adventures Along the Atlantic Coast. Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Morley, Christopher. Streamlines. Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1936.
- OCLC 4346983.
- ^ "P.E.I.'s Coastal Vessels and Ferries". islandregister.com. June 16, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
- ^ "Vessels". The Steamship Authority. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2018.