Radium King
preserved watercraft · Canada
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Radium King
- IMO number
- 5288906
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Vessel type
- preserved watercraft
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
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- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1937
- Builder
- Marine Industries Limited
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Radium King
The Radium King was built in 1937 to haul ore on the Mackenzie River, and her tributaries. This included uranium used in the US atom bombs of World War II. Later in her active career she hauled barges on Great Slave Lake. The Radium King, and a sister ship, the Radium Queen, were built in the Manseau shipyards in Montreal. They were then disassembled and the pieces were loaded on flatcars for shipment by railroad to Waterways, Alberta, which was then the northern terminus of the North American railway grid, to be reassembled and launched on the Mackenzie River. It required nine flatcars to completely load all the parts of the vessel. The Radium King was staffed by a crew of 10, and could carry 10 passengers. The shipping season was short during the working lifetime of the Radium King.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Radium King now?
- Radium King has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Radium King?
- Radium King is a preserved watercraft sailing under the flag of Canada, built in 1937 by Marine Industries Limited.
- Has Radium King been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Radium King appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).