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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.

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.