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The Dollar Steamship Company was an American shipping company in operation from 1901 to 1938. The company was established by a Scottish-born California lumber baron Robert Dollar (1844-1932) who, in 1903, expanded his business interest to British Columbia. His initial interest in shipping was to transport lumber across the Pacific to markets in China but by the 1920s, Dollar Line ships were offering round the world passenger and cargo services.

Dollar expanded his company by buying out competitors. In 1925, he took over the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. This firm operated passenger a cargo vessels named for U.S. presidents and the Dollar Steamship Lines carried on with this convention. For several years in the 1920s, the Dollar Steamship Company operated several ships registered in Vancouver with British officers and Chinese crews. In 1937, the company went bankrupt and was sold to the United States Maritime Commission who created the American President Line which was in turn absorbed by Neptune Orient of Singapore in 1997.

King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India and the first Head of the Commonwealth. Father of Queen Elizabeth II.

591 gross tons steel freighter built in Brevik, Norway as steamship Granit. In 1929, she was renamed Columbia and in 1930, she came to British Columbia and was renamed Island King. Here, she was owned by British Columbia Cement Company and reengined as a motor vessel. In 1944, she was sold to Waterhouse, taken over by Union Steamships 1948, renamed Chilliwack 1954, sold to Northland Navigation Company of Vancouver in 1958, renamed Tahsis Prince, and sold again to Sannie Transportation Company of Vancouver 1961. In 1962, she was sold to Northwest Shipping of Vancouver, sold as accommodation vessel for oyster fishermen in 1968, and finally, in 1976, she was abandoned near New Westminster.

420 gross tons freighter built in Birkenhead, United Kingdom. Notably, she was the first all-welded cargo ship and was intended as an experiment. She came to British Columbia in 1925, owned by British Columbia Cement Company. She had previously been named Fullagar, and Caria, and was renamed Shean in 1930. In 1934, she was sold to Mexican owners and renamed Cedros. She sank after a collision off Ensenada, Mexico in 1937.

A volunteer naval reserve that was organized into units in several locations around the British Isles. The volunteers were unpaid civilians who bought their own uniforms and paid for travel expenses. The Royal Naval Reserve (Volunteers) was a separate organization that recruited men from the mercantile marine. The Royal Naval Artillery Reserve was disbanded in 1892, but the Naval Forces Act of 1903 established the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) whose recruits were civilians without seagoing experience. The Royal Naval Artillery Volunteer Force was thus a forerunner to the RNVR.

Salvage vessel. Single screw steel tug built as corvette in 1941. Acquired by Straits Towing Ltd. and Island Tug and Barge Company, and converted as a salvage tug in 1949. She was dismantled for scrap by Capital Iron Victoria in 1966.

ON 16187, 921/904 tons, built by M.S. Harris in Moncton, New Brunswick, registered in Liverpool 135/555, owned by Steward & Douglas 1854, condemned 1860s.