Talk:USS Pee Dee River

More information about the ship

Maritime Connector Database Record

IMO number	7337593
Name of the ship	FISH MAKER I
Type of ship	FISHING VESSEL
Gross tonnage	744 tons
DWT	1000 tons
Year of build	1945
Builder	TODD HOUSTON SHIPBUILDING - HOUSTON TX, U.S.A.
Last known flag	U.S.A.
Former names	WESTERN SEA until 2004 Dec SEA STAR until 2004 YUKON BLEU until 1979 GOLDRILL 4 until 1977 PETROMAR SALVOR until 1977 OFFSHORE SALVOR until 1966 PEE DEE RIVER until 1960 LSMR 517 until 1955 Oct SEA STAR until 1945 Jul

In turn, this record was sourced from grosstonnage.com which is now defunct.

Info from GT (retrieved 4 April 2014):

FISH MAKER I
not interesting for gt: DEAD SHIP
IMO NUMBER
7337593
STATUS: DEAD
VESSEL TYPE: FISHING VESSEL
GROSS TONNAGE: 744 tons
SUMMER DWT: 1.000 tons
BUILD: 1945
BUILDER: TODD HOUSTON SHIPBUILDING* HOUSTON TX - U.S.A.
LAST KNOWN FLAG: U.S.A.
LAST UPDATE: 2012 Nov 11
VESSEL DETAILS
DIMENSIONS:
BREADTH EXTREME: 10,42 m
BREADTH MOULDED: 10,37 m
DEPTH: 3,43 m
DRAUGHT: 2,92 m
LENGTH B/W PERPENDICULARS: 60,43 m
LENGTH OVERALL: 62,80 m

TONNAGES
NET TONNAGE: 593 t
STRUCTURE
HULL MATERIAL
STEEL
ENGINE
ENGINE BUILDER
GM ELECTRO MOTIVE
ENGINE POWER
2355 KW
PROPELLER
1 FIXED PITCH
There's a book, World War II U.S. Navy Vessels in Private Hands By Greg H. Williams, you can search inside it using Google Books by the call sign, WAA6421, and pull up a reference to the Western Sea and transition to Fish Maker I:

Registered in 2005 by Fish Maker, LLC, 1441 N. Northlake Way, Suite 105, Seattle, Washington, as the 744-ton fishing vessel Fish Maker I, call sign WAA6421. Out of documentation in 2008.

→StaniStani  03:45, 5 April 2014 (UTC)