Originally known as “British Columbia Salvage” and associated with the Bullen yard (B.C. Marine Railway) in Esquimalt. The company became Pacific Salvage Company Ltd in 1916 after Arthur and Newton Burdick assumed full control. Pacific Salvage and its predecessor were involved in many notable salvage operations, successful and unsuccessful, on the B.C. coast between 1906 and 1942. In the 1920s, the company moved to a location to the West of the Burrard Drydock Company in North Vancouver where, in addition to ongoing salvage jobs, it operated a shipyard that built 11 scows and two patrol vessels between 1929 and 1938. Early in WWII, the shipyard was expanded and commenced business as the Pacific Dry Dock Company. It began construction of 10,000 freighters and was sold to Burrard Dry Dock Company which operated it as North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd. Pacific Salvage was sold to Straits Towing in 1948.
Kent Line is a shipping operator and service provider that has been in business since 1952. Their office is in St John, New Brunswick and they are a member of the Irving Group.
Liner in B.C. Ferries' V-class. stretched in 1969, upper deck added in 1982 to increase vehicle capacity, and sold for scrap in 2011.
Wood fishing vessel, 37.85 tons gross. Owned by Henry Dorion of Vancouver from 1931 to 1949. From 1956 to 1961, she was owned by Richard Pallant of North Burnaby. From 1980 to 2004, she was owned by Brenpar Trading. Her registry closed in 2004 while owned by Moon Dancer Fishing of Nanoose Bay.
Steel twin screw passenger steamer with turbo-electric machinery, 5,911 tons gross, operated by Canadian Pacific Railways from 1950 to 1978. She served as a floating hotel in Vancouver in 1986, and was scrapped in 1995.
Steel, 5,390 tons gross, single screw freighter built by Canadian Vickers of Montreal in 1920. On 26th February 1924, the 400 foot Canadian built Norwegian cargo ship Tatjana, sailing from the far east under charter to a Japanese company bound for Vancouver, was pushed off course by a gale and found herself on the rocks of Effingham Island in Barklay Sound (south of Ucluelet, on the west side of Vancouver Island). All 27 crew members were saved by the Bamfield lifeboat and the ship was abandoned as a total loss.
The Pacific Salvage Company, however, pulled her off the reef and towed her to Esquimalt where she underwent major repair to put her back in service.