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John Kirkendale worked as a deckhand on towboats at the early age of 15. During WWII, he was an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as navigating officer in corvettes and minesweepers in the Atlantic. By the end of the war he was a Lieutenant, RCNR. He later served as first mate on the Estevan and other vessels. John enjoyed building various ships and restoring them, notably the 68 foot D'Arcy Isle. He also compiled a very comprehensive archive of ships in which he gained a vast knowledge of commercial vessels on the Pacific Coast. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timescolonist/obituary.aspx?n=john-kirkendale&pid=157443334#sthash.hT44n8RI.dpuf

John Guzzwell is a noted small boat sailor originally from England who immigrated to Canada at the age 25 and built the yacht Trekka in Victoria in the early 1950s. He then sailed her around the world single-handed. When he returned to Victoria in 1959 his was the smallest sailing yacht to have completed a circumnavigation. John Guzzwell then went on to have a successful career as a boatbuilder.

27,894 gross/50,921 deadweight ton tanker built 1982. She was registered in Panama and was last in service in 2010.

Originally a Victoria-based towing company established by Harold Elworthy in 1924, the company acquired the large towing vessel Sudbury, a converted corvette, in 1954 that was BC’s most famous tug. It acquired another towing company, Young & Gore, in 1965 and Victoria Tug Company in 1958. McAllister Towing of Montreal purchased Island Tug in 1960 and then, in 1961, Griffiths Steamship Company. In 1969, Genstar Ltd. acquired Island Tug & Barge and in 1970 merged Vancouver Tug Boat Company and Island Tug to become Seaspan International.

HMCS Niobe is a former diadem class cruiser bought by Canada in 1910. She served on east coast from 1910 to 1915, was taken out of active service in 1915m and served as a depot ship in Halifax from 1915 to 1920.

HMCS Niobe is also the designation for a series of Royal Canadian Navy shore establishments in the United Kingdom in existence from 1941 to 1966. The establishment was located in London from 1946 to 1966 and accommodated Canadian Naval Liaison Staff.

Built as HMS Kempenfelt in 1930, HMCS Assiniboine was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939 and served as a destroyer during WWII. Under the command of LCDR John Stubbs, the Assiniboine rammed and sank U-210 off Newfoundland in 1942. She was paid off in 1945 and went aground on Prince Edward Island while under tow to a breaker’s yard in Baltimore, Maryland.

Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Donnacona is a reserve unit of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Montreal, Quebec. As with all Naval Reserve divisions, its approximately 200 sailors supplement the Royal Canadian Navy on board ship and at shore establishments on a part-time or contractual basis.

William Fitzherbert Bullen (1857 - 1921), a former employee at Albion Iron Works in Victoria, established the British Columbia Marine Railway Company in Lang Cove at the eastern end of Esquimalt Harbour in 1893. He was the managing director of the firm which he sold to Sir Alfred Yarrow in 1914.

Sir Alfred Yarrow, of Yarrow & Co. Shipbuilders in Scotland, purchased the B.C. Marine Railways Company in Esquimalt to create Yarrows Shipbuilding Ltd. Sir Alfred's son, Norman became Director in 1915 and Edward Izard, an Engineer trained at the parent firm in Scotland was the General Manager.

During WWII, Yarrows specialized in naval construction and produced 17 frigates. It expanded across Lang Cove in Esquimalt to create an additional building slip and fabrication shops at Munro Head. Yarrows was purchased by Burrard Drydock Company in 1946. Burrard Yarrows was purchased by Versatile Pacific in 1985. Versatile renamed the Esquimalt shipyard Yarrows Ltd. in 1991 when it sold its Vancouver assets but the shipyard closed in 1995.