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Single screw, United States Navy tank landing ship configured as a repair ship for landing craft. She served in the western Pacific in 1945 and was laid up in reserve in Vancouver, Washington in 1946. In 1966, she was acquired by Canadian Pacific Railways and converted to carry railway cars and truck trailers as the 2,689 tons gross M/V Trailer Princess until 2008.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company entered into the shipping business in 1884, operating three ships on the Great Lakes. In 1901, with the acquisition of the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company, the C.P.R. Company had established shipping services between British Columbia and Asia, on inland waterways in British Columbia, and in British Columbia coastal waters. Transatlantic freight and passenger services started in 1903. Eventually, C.P.R.’s deep-sea fleet came to be managed in Liverpool and most of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s ocean-going vessels were registered in the UK and in the late 1970s, the company divested itself of its coastal and passenger shipping.

In 1971, the name of the deep-sea operation was changed to C.P. Ships. In 2001, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company was divided into four separate entities one of which was C.P. Ships. In 2005, C.P. Ships was acquired by a German conglomerate and by 2011, the C.P. Ships name had disappeared from commercial shipping.

The HMC Dockyard in Esquimalt is located on south side of Esquimalt harbor and was established by the Royal Navy to support warships on the Pacific Station. The dockyard was formally transferred to Canada 1910. The first structures, built in 1855, in what became the dockyard were wooden huts built on Duntze Head at its western end. In 1865, Esquimalt was recognized as an alternative base to Valparaiso for the Royal Navy’s Pacific Station. In that year a “small establishment for the custody of stores and provisions” was authorized. The start of repair facilities came in 1872 and the building of a graving dock by the Canadian government just to the east of the dockyard was done between 1876 and 1886. This addition greatly enhanced Esquimalt’s usefulness as a support base. Until around 1910, the dockyard was called HM Navy Yard. In 1940, The dockyard was expanded eastwards to meet wartime demands. The dockyard is still in operation today as part of Canadian Forces Base (CFB), Esquimalt.

Wood screw corvette, 2,187 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1856 to 1860 and then again in 1869.

E.A. Morris travelled from England to the United States and from the United States to the British Columbia coast in the 1870s and 1880s.

Born in England, Edward Izard started working for Yarrows Shipbuilders in Scotland at the age of 18 and was trained in then new technologies including marine turbines. He came to Esquimalt in 1914 as the assistant manager when the shipyard had been purchased by Sir Alfred Yarrow. Edward Izard became General Manager and remained with the shipyard until 1957.

Captain Cook was a noted British Naval officer who excelled as an explorer, cartographer, and navigator. He was on the northwest coast of North American from 1778 to 1779.

Admiral Finch-Noyes was a Canadian naval officer from 1926 to 1982. He served as Flag Officer Pacific Coast from 1960 to 1962, was Executive Officer on HMCS Prince Henry in 1943 and commanded HMCS Prince Robert in 1943.

HMS Excellent was a Royal Navy gunnery training establishment in Portsmouth harbour between 1830 and 1985. Training was initially done in the hulk of a wooden warship named Excellent built in 1797. In 1886, the school moved ashore to Whale Island in. The school finally closed in 1985. HMS Excellent re-opened in 1994 and is now the location of the Damage Control School.