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Ernie Cassels had a merchant navy background and served as an officer in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve from 1940 to 1945. He re-entered the Royal Canadian Navy in 1950 as a Lieutenant Commander and served until 1960. He commanded the minesweepers HMCS Brockville and HMCS Winnipeg when this ship was brought out of reserve for transfer to the Belgian Navy.

Composite full rigged ship, 963 tons gross. She served briefly in the tea trade and then in the Australian wool trade to the United Kingdom. In 1895, he was bought by Portuguese interests and was renamed Ferreira. In 1922, she became a training ship in the UK under her original name and has been used as a museum in dry dock at Greenwich, UK since 1954.

3,754 gross tons four-master barquentine sail training vessel of the Chilean Navy, built in Spain.

Frederick Victor Longstaff was born in Yorkshire, England, and came to Victoria, B.C., in 1911. He was prominent in the Victoria community as an author, historian, mountaineer, and activist Trained as an architectural draughtsman, he assisted in the design of St. John's Anglican Church and the James Bay Anglican Hall, and wrote a history of Christ Church Cathedral. Longstaff had been an officer in a Territorial (Reserve) regiment in England and served in the Canadian Militia between 1912 and 1915. He had to resign from active service in 1915 due to medical issues but he served in London with the Legion of Frontiersmen, a paramilitary organization active in several countries in the British Empire until 1918. During WWI, the Frontiersmen were involved in raising volunteers for the active army. Longstaff returned to Victoria with the rank of Major. He developed an interest in maritime history and wrote histories of H.M.C.S. Naden and Esquimalt Harbour. He was a driving force behind the creation of the Thermopylae Club in 1932, was active in many church and civic organizations, and influenced the creation of the Maritime Museum at Signal Hill in 1955. He was a recognized authority on the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.

Casey joined the S.S. Coquitlam 24 November 1911.

First Class cruiser. Served as flagship on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1893 to 1896.

Co-founder of Carne & Munsie and owner of several sealing schooners including Caroline and City of San Diego.