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591 gross tons steel freighter built in Brevik, Norway as steamship Granit. In 1929, she was renamed Columbia and in 1930, she came to British Columbia and was renamed Island King. Here, she was owned by British Columbia Cement Company and reengined as a motor vessel. In 1944, she was sold to Waterhouse, taken over by Union Steamships 1948, renamed Chilliwack 1954, sold to Northland Navigation Company of Vancouver in 1958, renamed Tahsis Prince, and sold again to Sannie Transportation Company of Vancouver 1961. In 1962, she was sold to Northwest Shipping of Vancouver, sold as accommodation vessel for oyster fishermen in 1968, and finally, in 1976, she was abandoned near New Westminster.

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.

Displacement 1,519 tons. Built in 1927 as the San Francisco Bay ferry Peralta, she was rebuilt as a Puget Sound ferry and renamed in 1935. She operated as a ferry with futuristic art deco streamlined superstructure from 1935 to 1967. She sailed on Puget Sound and later on Port Angeles to Victoria run for Black Ball Line from 1945 to 1960. In 1967, she was sold to American Freezer Ships Dutch Harbour Alaska to become a fish cannery. In 1998, she returned to Washington State and was scrapped in 2015.