Composite (wood on iron frames) screw corvette, 1,420 tons. Served on the Canadian Forces Pacific Station from 1884 to 1885, and again from 1894 to 1897. Served as Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve drill ship on Rover Tyne from 1904 to 1947.
The Argonaut II was first launched as the Greta M. in 1922 at the Menchion's shipyard of Vancouver, B.C. She was the company yacht for the Power River company. In 1937, she was purchased by the United Church of Canada to serve the needs of the church in accessing members located in remote communities along the northern coast of the province. She was renamed the Thomas Crosby IV at that time. Her most famous skipper was Peter Kelly, son of a Haida chief from Haida Gwaii. He served for 16 years as her captain. The Thomas Crosby IV served the spiritual and physical needs of church members until the mid 1960s.
With better roads and air transportation in the 1960s, reliance on mission boats waned. In 1966, she was sold to Blackmore Marine Service Ltd., renamed the Argonaut II, and pressed into the role of a drudge workboat. During this period, she experienced considerable damage, but, beginning in 1970, she underwent years of painstaking restoration.
Vessel was owned by the Canadian Fishing Company, fished B.C. coastal waters in 1949 with repower from a Caterpillar D13000 marine diesel engine generating 115hp at 900 rpm.
Steam powered sternwheeler, 1,363 tons gross. Built in Whitehorse. She was operated by British Yukon Navigation Co. from 1937 to 1955 and transferred to the Canadian Government in 1960. She is now preserved in Whitehorse as a national historic park.