SS Jasper Park

SS Jasper Park 1943
History
Canada
NameJasper Park
NamesakeJasper National Park
OwnerPark Steamship Company
BuilderDavie Shipbuilding
Launched12 August 1942
Completed24 September 1942
FateTorpedoed by U-177 on 6 July 1943
General characteristics
TypePark ship
Tonnage
Length315 ft 5 in (96.14 m)
Beam46 ft 5 in (14.15 m)
Depth22 ft 9 in (6.93 m)
Installed powerTriple expansion steam engine
PropulsionScrew propeller
Crew34, plus 4 DEMS gunners
Armament

SS Jasper Park was a Park ship freighter, built in 1942. She was sunk by torpedo from German submarine U-177 on 6 July 1943, the first Park ship lost to enemy action.[2] She was completed on 24 September 1942, by the company Davie Shipbuilding in Lauzon, Quebec. Her hull number is 537. Davie Shipbuilding is now called Chantier Davie Canada Inc. The ship was owned by the Park Steamship Company, which was owned by Canada's Federal government. The government had built 400 vessels during World War II. Built as a merchant steamship constructed for Canada’s Merchant Navy in 1942. She was named after Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta, Canada.[3][4]

She was operated for the Government by Canada Shipping Company.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ merchant ships, Park armament
  2. ^ wrecksite.eu, Jasper Park
  3. ^ shipbuildinghistory.com Park Ships
  4. ^ mariners, Park ship A to M
  5. ^ Syd C. Heal (1999). A Great Fleet of Ships: The Canadian Forts & Parks. Vanwell Publishing. p. 285. ISBN 9781551250236.
  6. ^ Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering News, Volume 18. Maclean Publishing. 1946. p. 29. Retrieved 2017-03-29. Then there was the famous Greenhill Park, now sailing the seas again as Phaeax II under the flag of Greece.
  7. ^ Robert G. Halford (1995). The unknown navy: Canada's World War II merchant navy. Vanwell Publishing. pp. 39, 144. ISBN 9781551250168. Retrieved 2017-03-29. The badly damaged ship was sold by War Assets to Greek interests who had her rebuilt to sail again as the Phaeax II.