Along with M/V Queen of Tsawwassen, M/V Queen of Sidney is one of the first two ferries built for B.C. Ferries. The design was based on M/V Coho but was modified for bow loading. 3,127 grt.
2,453 gross ton, belonging to B.C. Ferries and operating on Gulf Islands service.
Publicly owned company established by the provincial government in 1960 to operate passenger and vehicle ferry services linking Vancouver Island and other coastal communities with the lower mainland. B.C. Ferries took over services formerly provided by the Canadian Pacific Railway British Columbia Coast Steamship Service and the Puget Sound Navigation Company's Black Ball Line.
A variety of agencies have maintained aids to navigation and provided coastal rescue services since long before Confederation. The Canadian Coast Guard was established in 1962 to take over the functions of the former Marine Service of the Department of Transport. It operated as part of the Department of Transport until 1994 when it was transferred to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. In 2005 the Canadian Coast Guard was designated as a “special operating agency” to give it greater autonomy under Fisheries and Oceans. Unlike the armed coast guards of some other nations such as the United States, the Canadian Coast Guard is a government marine organization without naval or law enforcement responsibilities. However, Coast Guard vessels can carry law enforcement personnel from other departments like the RCMP.
The High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte) was the battle fleet of the German Imperial Navy and saw action during the First World War. The formation was created in February 1907, when the Home Fleet (Heimatflotte) was renamed as the High Seas Fleet. In 1918, The High Seas Fleet was interned in Scapa Flow under the terms of the Armistice. It remained manned by reduced crews who successfully scuttled its ships in June 1919 when it was thought that the British intended to seize the fleet.
A term to describe the commercial shipping industry. The title “Merchant Navy” was bestowed on British merchant fleets by King George V after their crucial service in WWI. It recognized the importance of merchant ship crews and their vessels in war. It was applied to Canadian and other merchant fleets. The term “Merchant Marine” is used in the United States.
CGS Karluk was a wooden brigantine built in 1884 which, in 1913, after many years of whaling, was acquired by Vilhjalmur Stefansson for use in a planned Arctic expedition and sold to the Canadian government at cost. Karluk was refitted in the Naval Dockyard in Esquimalt in 1913 and sailed for the western Arctic in July as the main vessel in the Canadian Arctic Expedition but became beset in ice in August and was holed and sank in January 1914.
14,124 tons gross, U.S. passenger liner operated by Dollar Steamship Lines on Transpacific services until 1938, then by successor American President Lines. She was sold to Spain in 1940 and renamed La Salle. Her original name was Hoosier Stare, she was renamed President Lincoln in 1922.