Philippine cargo passenger ship, 5011 gross tons, built in Trieste. She was torpedoed by an Italian submarine and sank in the South Atlantic on 2 December 1942.
Two Dutch merchant ships have had this name. The vessel cited in the Ohnick Fonds would have been a 5,544 ton cargo vessel with passenger accommodation of the Vereenidge Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij (United Netherlands Navigation Company), built in 1922 and sold to Italian owners in1935. Klipfontein is a town in South Africa.
One of the oldest and largest shipping companies in the world. By the 1920s the company was operating regular passenger and cargo ship services linking Japan and Vancouver and Seattle, Southeast Asia, the Indies, and Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Now known widely as NYK. After losing all but one of its vessels in WWII, NYK re-emerged and now operates worldwide.
U.S. shipping company that provided primarily cargo service from Seattle to the Far East.
Steel screw sloop built with barque rig, 980 tons. Built in 1898, the Condor arrived in Esquimalt on her first commission in 1901. She foundered off Cape Flattery in heavy weather in December 1901 at the beginning of a planned passage to Hawaii. All 140 on board were lost. All 5 other ships of her class (which included HMS/later HMCS Shearwater) had their sailing rig removed after the loss of Condor.
Two brothers, Arthur and Fred MacFarlane of Mill Bay, started towing scows and logs around Mill Bay in 1910 using the small tug Victory. They soon acquired a larger wooden tug, the Wabash. When the brothers returned from service overseas in WWI, they purchased a tug named Bonilla. They subsequently owned the tugs J.W.P., Daring, Doreen M., Restless, and Swiftsure II. The company office was in the Yarrow building on Fort Street in Victoria. Fred MacFarlane sold his interest in the firm to his brother Arthur in 1934. The company closed when Arthur MacFarlane retired in 1947.
Wooden tug, 155 tons gross, built in Tacoma, Washington. She was owned by Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company, Victoria from 1918 to 1922.
Shipyard established with provincial government assistance on the Victoria Inner Harbour in 1916 by James D. and D.O. Cameron to build wooden lumber schooners as a subsidy of their Cameron Lumber Company. The lumber schooners were not a commercial success but in 1918 the yard received orders to build from the Imperial Munitions Board to four 2,800 ton wooden steamers for the war effort.
Wooden tug built in New Westminster as Restless. She was owned by Westminster Towing and Fishing Company, New Westminster from 1906 to 1908, and sold for fisheries patrol to the Minister of Marine and Fisheries in 1908 as CGS Restless. In 1914, she was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Restless and served as a training vessel for the Naval College of Canada in 1918. From 1920 to 1923, she served as tender to the Canadian Hydrographic Service. From 1927 to 1933, she was owned by MacFarlane Brothers Ltd., Victoria.
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.