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SS Sudbury (salvage vessel)
Corporate body · 1941 - 1966

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.

SS Surinam (tanker)
Corporate body · 1929 - 1963

2,293 tons gross. Built as steel freighter Surinam, and converted to the log barge Island Cypress in 1954. In 1956, she was acquired by Island Tug and Barge Company of Victoria. She sank in the Pacific in 1963 after breaking in half while under tow by Sudbury II.

SS Tatjana (ship)
Corporate body · 1920 - 1924

Steel, 5,390 tons gross, single screw freighter built by Canadian Vickers of Montreal in 1920. On 26th February 1924, the 400 foot Canadian built Norwegian cargo ship Tatjana, sailing from the far east under charter to a Japanese company bound for Vancouver, was pushed off course by a gale and found herself on the rocks of Effingham Island in Barklay Sound (south of Ucluelet, on the west side of Vancouver Island). All 27 crew members were saved by the Bamfield lifeboat and the ship was abandoned as a total loss.

The Pacific Salvage Company, however, pulled her off the reef and towed her to Esquimalt where she underwent major repair to put her back in service.

SS Tees (ship)
Corporate body · 1893 - 1937

Steel single screw steamer, 679 gross tons, built in the United Kingdom in 1893 and bought by Canadian Pacific Navigation in 1898. She was acquired by Canadian Pacific in 1903, chartered to Pacific Salvage Company in 1918 and sold to them in 1925 when she was renamed Salvage Queen. In 1933, she was acquired by Island Tug and Barge and renames Island Queen. She was broken up 1937.