[BCMA] RCN Motor Cutter (HMCS Fraser) for Donation

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**A 25-foot RCN motor cutter, believed to be from the River Class 
destroyer HMCS Fraser, the first man-of-war lost in WW II, in June 1940. 
The boat carries two bronze roundels, port and starboard, with the 
stag's head, emblem of the Fraser clan, with a crown above. At eighty 
years old, the hull is in remarkably good condition. The famous naval 
architect Bill Garden designed and built a stand-up wheelhouse onto the 
boat in 1950 in such a way that its removal would return the boat to her 
original state if such were wanted for museum display. Perkins 4-108 
diesel engine, recently rebuilt, with very low number of hours. New mast 
and boom for custom-made boom tent, fitted cockpit cushions; bronze 
shaft, log and propeller; semi-balanced rudder hangs on a bronze casting 
which comprises the sternpost and lower gudgeon; both wheel and tiller 
steering, dual controls, fish-finder. Two-plate cast iron wood-burning 
stove for heat in the wheelhouse. Planked mahogany foredeck, teak 
cockpit rails, bronze fittings. Lapstrake planking on oak frames.

This boat is for donation to a museum (or private sale also).

Interested parties may contact David Phillips at 604-885-0706 for 
further details.
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