Captain George E. Barnes served with the Royal Marine Artillery under Lt. Col. George A. Rawstorne for duty on Vancouver Island. He was attached to HMS Royal Arthur, flag ship of the Royal Navy Pacific Station, at Esquimalt, B.C.
ON 25790, built in Whitehaven, UK, 1828, registered Liverpool 168/38.
Wooden, four-masted barquetine built by Cholberg Shipyard in Victoria West as part of a WWI emergency construction program. She was owned by Victoria Ship owners Ltd. of Victoria, and in 1921, acquired by the Canadian Government Merchant Marine when Victoria Ship owners went bankrupt. In 1921, she was traded to Australia. In 1923, she was sold to British Columbia Mills Timber and Trading Company (Hastings Mill) in Vancouver, laid up in New Westminster, and converted to a floating herring saltery by Nelson Brothers. She was then laid up in Annacis Slough and later converted to a log barge by Green Brothers. She broke loose from her moorings at Ogden Point, Victoria in December 1923 and wrecked on Macaulay Point.
ON 25790, built in Whitehaven, UK in 1828. Registered Liverpool 168/38.
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.