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Seaspan International Fonds
985.086.0001-0022, 986.039-986.040, 988.284.0001-0010 · Fonds · 1922-1979

Fonds consists of

985.086

  • Ship plans, correspondence, Lloyd’s register of shipping load, shipping, and surveyor’s certificates related to Island Tug & Barge vessels M/V Comet, M/V Island Forester and M/V Island Cedar, as well as a cost of building report and assorted certificates for SS Conchita.
  • Correspondence, reports, and certificates related to William Beardmore & Company Limited, Victoria Machinery Depot Company Limited, Yarrows Limited, and the Department of Marine and Fisheries dating from 1922 to 1956 and 1979,
  • Certificates for ship’s lanterns from the Netherlands Meteorological institute, in Dutch, dated 1924, and certificates of tonnage from the United States of Venezuela.

986.039

  • Time sheets dating from August 1947 to December 1956,
  • Motor Princess valve cage charts dated 1946 to 1948 (have been ripped in half and taped back together)
    -Blank envelopes and forms from Island Tug & Barge,
    -Booklet of engineering tables and plans titled "I.T.-4.",
  • 1962 marine digest,
  • Salvage agreement,
  • Loading specifications for log barges.

986.040

  • Quotation work sheets in alphabetical order which had been stored in a card catalogue style. Consists only of work sheets from 'A' to 'Mc',
  • 10 miscellaneous blueprints.

988.284

  • Fonds consists of documents, photographs, and blueprints relating to Seaspan engineering , TSS Conchita, and TSS Carlota. The documents include 3 copies of the stability investigation report from the Capsizing of Seaspan 921, two copies of a technical investigation and analysis report on the probable causes of capsize on 19 July 1974 of Seaspan 921, and statistical stability calculations from the capsizing,
  • loading scale sheets, calibration scales, transcript of register, load line certificate, and general correspondence dating from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Seaspan International Limited
David Gray Fonds
988.300.0003-0004, 998.015, 998.080, 999.082 · Fonds · 1920-1979

Fonds consists primarily of records relating to Island Tug & Barge dating from 1920s to 1970s.

Envelope 1:

  • Lloyd’s Register of shipping certificates for SS Conchita and for SS Stockless dating to 1920s, and a certificate of ship lanters? In Dutch, dated 1924 in Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Specification documents for Island Fir class self-loading log Barges

Envelope 2:

  • Newspaper clippings regarding building the Gorge Walkway and Island Tug & Barge, dating to the 1960s
  • A receipt dating 1979
  • Island Tug & Barge Christmas Dance invitation cards
  • Blank Yarrows Limited job cards
  • Blank Island Tug & Barge time slips.

Envelope 3:

  • Blank Island Tug & Barge time slips
  • Photocopy of 35 mm print of transverse cut away drawing of RMS Olympic
  • Blank envelopes with Island Tug & Barge return stamp
  • Pad of blank repair report sheets

Envelope 4:

  • Mid ship plan blueprint for Tamare class ships. (Extremely poor condition)
  • Photocopies of certificates and correspondences related to SS Conchita, and SS Casandra dating from 1920s to 1950s.
  • Pad of blank Island Tug & Barge supply check lists

Also includes a manoeuver document with handwritten note on reverse from Vancouver Island Power Boat Squadrons dated 1942, a clipping from the Daily Colonist, Victoria dated 25 July 1945, a 1942 and 1943 issue of P.B.S. News, a booklet titled "Vancouver Island Power Boat Squadrons 1944 Annual", and various signal messages. As well as, Island Tug & Barge Limited correspondence dating to 1961, an inspection certificate for SS Sudbury, and coasting trade (customs) regulations.

Island Tug & Barge Limited