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Built as single screw C2 type merchant ship, USS Estes was taken over during construction by the United States Navy and completed as an Amphibious Force Command Ship, displacement 7,240 tons. She served in the western Pacific from 1944 to 45, and was in reserve from 1949 to 1951. She was again in active service from 1951 to 1969, and scrapped in 1977.

Gearing class destroyer, 3,460 tons displacement. She was modernized in 1960 and operated in the Atlantic except during service off Vietnam between 1969 and 1970.

The Department of Marine and Fisheries, created on July 1, 1867, was legally responsible for the seacoast and inland fisheries of the new dominion.

When British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871, the federal government recognized the need for a strong presence in the Pacific region to monitor fisheries and oceans. The Department established a headquarters in Victoria, and by 1875, the Dominion Commissioner of Fisheries recommended that the Fisheries Act be applied to British Columbia. In the following year, a proclamation was issued, extending the Act.

The Government Organization Act of 1979 resulted in the creation of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, under which the federal government's fisheries management and ocean science programs are now jointly located. The Constitution Act, 1982 reinforced this mandate by granting the Department federal jurisdiction over fisheries, public harbours, and navigation. Today, the mandate still calls for the Department to manage Canada's waterways so that they are clean, safe, productive, and accessible -- to ensure sustainable use of fisheries resources, and to facilitate marine trade and commerce.

(see also Department of Marine and Fisheries)

A United States shipping line that operated passenger and cargo vessels between the eastern seaboard of the United States and the Mediterranean. In 1964, the company was merged with the Isbrandtsen Company to become American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines.

A Philadelphia-based company that operated passenger and cargo vessels between Philadelphia and New York City, United States and between Liverpool and Southampton, United Kingdom. In 1902, the company merged with other shipping companies to become part of the International Mercantile Marine Company but the name American Line continued to exist until 1932 when it became part of United States Lines.