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A photo of 4 men on boat holding what appears to be a small harpoon gun. The image appears to have been enlarged. The photo is blurry.

Indianapolis was built in 1904 in Toledo, Ohio by Craig Shipbuilding Company as a passenger vessel for Great Lakes service. In 1906 she was transferred to Seattle and in 1907 she began service between Port Townsend, Seattle and Victoria. She was broken up in 1938 in Seattle. During her life she was owned by multiple owners including Puget Sound Navigation Co and Alaska Steam Ship Co.

Built by Albion Iron Works. The company was founded in 1865 by Joseph Spratt and operated until 1928.

Cheakamus was converted to a tug-classed British Corporation BS with Freeboard.

This print reproduction of Robert McVittie’s painting depicts the tender containing three people heading back to the Thermopylae. There is pen and coloured pencil on the margin of the print at the bottom near the title of the work. The artwork is signed on the bottom left of the painting. The Thermopylae was berthed in Victoria from 1891 to 1895.

The print reproduction of Edward Hooper’s 1941 painting depicts three sail boats on a windy day near a house on the coast. Hooper used minimalism to give viewers the opportunity to make personal connections to each piece. His aesthetic key to success was the emphasis on the horizontality of lines and light in selected scenarios. There is still a sense of stillness in this breezy scene.

The print reproduction of a painting depicts a coast guard ship with a helicopter, with mountains and a sailboat in the background. It is the 66th copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work. It was painted by Robert McVittie, CSMA, FCA.

This print of Alfred Howell’s artwork done in the hatching style depicts the profile of a ship with three people at the bow. The year is illegible next to his signature in the rough waves. It is the 75th copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work.

This print of Alfred Howell’s artwork done in the hatching style depicts the billowing sails on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It is the 81st copy of a 100 signed prints made of the work.

The information on the poster provided in English and French states: Destroyer landing: a Sea King helicopter over the flight deck of HMCS Iroquois, one of the new DDH 280 class destroyers. The photo is a DND photo taken in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The absence of hangar-top and hangar-face lines and other appropriate flight deck markings meant that the flight deck was not yet certified for landing at the time of the photo, as the ship had just been accepted into the CF. The image was taken by the DND