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Belgian Minesweeper. Algerine Class Minesweeper transferred to the Belgian Navy from the Royal Canadian Navy in Esquimalt under the NATO Mutual Aid Program in 1959. Built in Port Arthur, Ontario in 1943, she served as HMCS Winnipeg from 1943 to 1959. She served in the Belgian Navy until 1966.

Edwin William Boulton was a Marine Engineer for the Royal Navy. Boulton is listed in the Royal Navy Lists (1886) as Assistant Engineer from 1842 until retirement in 1872.

Major Eric Leslie Hammer was a wireless telegraph operator in Canada's merchant marines, shipping out of Vancouver and Victoria. He worked predominantly for Canadian Pacific foreign-going Empress liners and served on the R.M.S. Empress of Japan when she was a troop ship.

Frederic James was born in Worcester, England, and served 27 years at sea, both in the mercantile marine and the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy. He served as the Harbour Master in Hong Kong from 1901 to 1903. He served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War I.

Frederick Ernest Grubb served as a naval officer in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1928 to 1960. Commander Grubb served on the staff of the Flag Officer Pacific as Assistant Chief of Staff (Training and Administration) from 1956 to 1960 and retired in the rank of Commander. During his career, he commanded two corvettes during World War II, one of which, Chambly, helped sink U-501 off Greenland in 1941. Commander Grubb was well known in the Navy in the 1950s and 1960s for his succinct notes providing guidance for junior officers on naval etiquette. In retirement, Commander Grubb was registrar and curator at the Maritime Museum of B.C.

Five masted barquentine built in 1919 in Aberdeen, Washington as a lumber carrier, 1,614 net tons, 243.4x44.x19 feet. Registered in Port Adelaide, Australia in 1928, and subsequently bought by Island Tug and Barge Company of Victoria and converted as a barge to carry sawdust and hog fuel. She was condemned in approximately 1950. The hulk remains as part of the breakwater at Royston near Comox, British Columbia. There are images of the vessel at the B.C. Archives and at the South Australian Maritime Museum.