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16,810 gross tons, passenger liner in Canadian Pacific Railway’s transpacific service from 1913 to 1914. She served as an armed merchant cruiser from 1914 to 1916, returned to Pacific service, then served as a troopship in the Atlantic from 1918 to 1919. After WWI, she resumed transpacific service until 1941, again served as troopship from 1941 1945, and was destroyed by fire at Barrow in 1945 and scrapped.

26,032 gross tons passenger liner. Originally named RMS Empress of Japan, she served in the Canadian Pacific Railway’s transpacific service from 1930 to 1939, and as a troopship from 1939 to 1948. She was renamed Empress of Scotland in 1942, and resumed Canadian Pacific Railway’s transatlantic service from 1950 to 1957, when she was sold to Hamburg Atlantic. She was destroyed by fire in New York City in 1966 and scrapped.

Captain Frank E. Unwin was a British Columbia coast pilot.

George Bradley Dyne came to Saanich, B.C., in 1896. Dyne trained at the Thames Nautical Training College and was a midshipman of the mercantile marine.

Commander G.H. Davidson was the executive officer of the Royal Canadian Navy Barracks, Esquimalt, B.C., in 1954. HMCS Naden was the name of the location of the naval barracks, training schools and housing in the Pacific Command, Esquimalt, B.C., before the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Captain G. R. Newell was a marine surveyor in 1962 and 1963 and resided in Victoria, B.C. In 1945, Newell was master of SS Bowness Park (liberty class).

Cargo ship built in 1943 in the United Kingdom as Hughli, 6,597 gross tons. Operated by Red Anchor Line, registered in London, she developed a leak in November 1962 when outbound from Crofton in to Japan with cargo of lumber. She returned to Esquimalt in distress and with 12 degree list, surveyed, repaired and resumed voyage.

Captain George E. Barnes served with the Royal Marine Artillery under Lt. Col. George A. Rawstorne for duty on Vancouver Island. He was attached to HMS Royal Arthur, flag ship of the Royal Navy Pacific Station, at Esquimalt, B.C.

George Edwards was born in Victoria and served in both the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy. Edwards served on both HMCS Rainbow and HMCS Niobe. He was an engine-man and Stoker Petty Officer.