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Duke Point (1995)

On 16 November 1995, Duke Point was towing a log boom upriver near Campbell River, British Columbia. While manoeuvring around a deadhead, the tug girded and capsized. The TSB records the event under M95W0205 in Appendix B of report M18P0230, a historical list compiled for the later George H Ledcor investigation. TSB M18P0230, Appendix B, p. 34

Classification

  • Incident Type: Capsize girding
  • Vessel Type: Tug

Vessel Details

FieldValue
Vessel NameDuke Point
Vessel TypeTug
Flag State
IMO Number
Gross Tonnage
LOA (m)

Incident Details

FieldValue
Date1995-11-16
LocationNear Campbell River, British Columbia
RegionCanada
Coordinates
Fatalities
Injuries
Missing

Key facts

Narrative

On 16 November 1995, Duke Point was towing a log boom upriver near Campbell River, British Columbia. While manoeuvring around a deadhead, the tug girded and capsized. The TSB records the event under M95W0205 in Appendix B of report M18P0230, a historical list compiled for the later George H Ledcor investigation. TSB M18P0230, Appendix B, p. 34

The appendix does not describe the towline arrangement, steering or line-handling actions, emergency response or final vessel condition. It gives no casualty counts, pollution consequences, damage assessment or financial losses. The reference to the deadhead describes the circumstances of the manoeuvre; it does not establish a detailed causal finding. The available evidence does not establish a human consequence, vessel loss, pollution outcome or damage estimate, leaving insufficient evidence to assign severity.

Sequence of events

Date/timeEvent
1995-11-16Duke Point girded and capsized while manoeuvring around a deadhead during log-boom towing. TSB M18P0230, Appendix B, p. 34

Investigation

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada identifies Duke Point as M95W0205 in Appendix B of M18P0230. The report's list of six earlier occurrences with published TSB investigations does not include M95W0205, so the appendix must not be presented as a Duke Point investigation report. A separate TSB public occurrence-data entry previously retrieved under that identifier concerns Swell at Ogden Point. The conflict remains unresolved: neither vessel nor location can be substituted for the other. TSB M18P0230, Appendix B and footnote 40

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