This collection consists of ship plans from various vessels. Work on this collection is underway. Please consult the Collections Manager for plans for a specific vessel.
Sans titreFonds consist of documents relating to the marine service of Walter Hichens-Smith.
- Photocopy of typed biographical information of Walter Hichens-Smith starting in 1908 when he signed on as a machinist’s apprentice with the B.C. Marine Railway. This appears to have been compiled for Hichens-Smith’s retirement from Island Tug and Barge, possibly in 1957.
- Continuous certificate of discharge for seaman booklet for Walter Hichens-Smith (born 1893) listing the ships on which he served and ports of discharge during the period of 1913 to 1957.
- Certificate of competency as first class engineer of a steam-driven ship in a small booklet, dated 3 April 1939.
- Certificate of indenture of apprenticeship between Walter Hichens-Smith and B.C. Marine Railway for five years beginning 20 January 1908. Includes typed statement on the reverse certifying the completion of his service.
- Department of Marine and Fisheries certificate of discharge from the CGS Estevan, dated 25 July 1915.
- Department of Marine Fisheries certificate of discharge from the CGS Estevan, dated 31 December 1915.
- Handwritten letter of reference signed by John A. Sutherland, engineer of the CGS Estevan, dated 31 December 1915.
- Typed letter of reference signed by Ramsay’s Machine Works, dated 4 January 1916.
- Naval Service certificate of discharge from the CGS Lillooet, dated 4 November 1916.
- Certificate of Competency as third class engineer issued by the minister of public works for the province of British Columbia, dated 6 October 1922.
- Handwritten letter of reference signed by A. Borrowman, chief engineer, CGS Lilliooet, dated 4 April 1923.
- Typed letter of reference from Yarrows Limited, dated 14 April 1930.
- Typed letter of reference from MacFarlane Towning Company Limited for work on the Tug Daring, dated 11 February 1931.
- Typed letter of reference from MacFarlane Towing Company Limited for work on the Tug Restless, dated 11 February 1931.
- Typed letter of reference signed by A. Borrowman, Cameron-Genoa Ship Builders Limited, dated 12 November 1916.
- Certificate of discharge from the M/S Island King, dated 11 May 1934.
- Certificate of discharge from the M/S Shean, dated 11 May 1934.
- Certificate of discharge from the M/S Island King. Dated 11 May 1934.
- Certificate of discharge from the M/S Island King, dated 11 May 1934.
- Handwritten letter of reference signed by the chief engineer of M/S Shean, dated 26 July 1934.
- Handwritten letter of reference signed by the master of M/S Tees, dated 13 September 1934.
- Handwritten letter of reference signed by R. Barclay, Chief Engineer of M/S Island King, dated 3 October 1934.
- Certificate of discharge from the SS Anyox, dated 7 January 1935.
- Typed letter of reference signed by the chief engineer and the master of Pacific Salvage Company, Limited, dated 7 January 1954.
- Certificate of discharge from G.E. Foster, dated 19 September 1935.
- Typed letter of reference signed by the master of Westward Towing Company Limited, dated 11 October 1938.
- Typed letter of reference for work on the SS Salvage Queen, signed by the master and supt. Engineer of Island Tug & Barge Company Limited, dated 15 February 1939.
- Typed letter of reference for work on the SS Snohomish, signed by the master and supt. Engineer of Island Tug & Barge Company Limited, dated 15 February 1939.
- Typed letter of reference for work on the SS Salvage King, signed by the master and supt. Engineer of Pacific Salvage Company Limited, dated 18 February 1939.
- Certificate of nationality including photo and finger prints issued at Victoria, BC, dated 12 August 1940. This was a wartime document issued to merchant seamen that entitled the bearer to disembark in US ports.
- Certificate of service in the HMCS Stadacona, the name of base in Halifax that administered units such the Naval Control of Shipping organization, dated 30 March 1943.
Also includes an Island Tug & Barge brochure titled "Salvage Ships at Work" c. 1954, consisting of photos of company vessels and salvaged vessels.
Sans titreFonds consists of ship plans and assorted documents and memorabilia relating to British Columbia shipbuilders, dating from 1918 to 1999.
008.031
- Victoria Machinery Depot Limited magazine detailing the building of SEDCO 135F, a semi-submersible oil drilling vessel built between 1965 and 1967
- Yarrows Limited magazine regarding ship building, ship repairs, and industrial fabrication
- Yarrows Limited plastic folder cover.
008.048
- VHS titled “The Legend of Gunpowder Gertie: Pirate Queen of the Kootenays”, 1999; and typed history of Gunpowder Gertie
- Tyrant Queen ship plan (missing)
- Dockmasters log book for Point Hope Dockings, dating from 1 January 1966 to 1 September 1969
- C.J. Hendry Co. complete marine, hardware, and fishermen’s supplies catalogue, 1945
- Two Yarrows Limited cost of docking, cleaning, and painting in the Esquimalt dry dock ledgers, one blank, one with one page filled out
- Master check list appendix to form DDP 408 time-schedule and man-hour estimates DDE 261-64. Published by the Department of Defence shipbuilding branch, dated 1 February 1965
- Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. cost accounts with memorandum introducing the associated documents dated 17 May 1989
- April 1987 issue of Victoria’s Marine Magazine (in the format of a newspaper)
- 11 January 1919 issue of The Foundation Shipyard Savings magazine/newspaper and a photocopy.
- Photocopy of a typewritten historical account titled “The Historical Background of Ship Building on the Point Hope Shipyard Site”
- Photocopy of book titled “Shipbuilding and Shipbuilders of British Columbia with Allied Industries”, edited by Aitken Tweedale, 1918
- British Columbia Toll Authority Ferry System, Vancouver-Victoria schedule effective 15 June 1960.
- Point Hope Shipyard Company Limited folder containing information and history of the Esquimalt Graving Dock facility and a photocopy of an informational booklet
- Bound book of lesson plans for Royal Canadian Navy ship builder apprentice
- Three blueprints for M/V Lady Sylvia and M/V Lady Rose
- Blueprint for TSMV Princess of Vancouver, printed on canvas
- Burrard Yarrows Corporation Estimation and analysis of Navy shipbuilding program disruption costs, authored by Captain Colin Hammon and Dr. David R. Graham, Center for Naval Analyses, 1984
- B.C. Ferries promotional magazine described as “a complete pictorial study of B.C.’s Ferry Fleet including sea and land maps)
- Yarrows Limited promotional magazine titled “Shipbuilding, Ship Repairs and Industrial Fabrication”
- Victoria Machinery Depot Company Limited promotional magazine
- Nine sheets of lined paper showing specs and sketches of different ships, all handwritten
22 - 23. Nine ship plans
Fonds consists of certificates for Charles Philip Smith for the Dominion-provincial war emergency training programme for courses in shipwright and blue print reading at Yarrows Limited school in 1942, a newspaper clipping of a photograph of picket lines at Yarrows, and a copy of a photograph of Charles Philip Smith in 1942.
Sans titreFonds consists of correspondence and documents relating to the professional life of Norman Turner, marine surveyor, dating from 1962 to 1964.
- Reports and Correspondence from Department of Transport, marine regulations branch, dating to 1962.
- Reports, correspondence, and certificates of markings from Department of Transport and reports and correspondence from National Revenue, Canada. Relating primarily to registries of shipping queries, dating to 1963.
- Surveyor’s reports, builder’s certificates, and certificates of survey from the Department of Transport.
- General correspondence with various contractors and businesses in the shipbuilding industry, dating to 1963.
- Correspondence, survey forms, and annual surveys from the Department of Transport, Ottawa, dating to 1964.
- Registrars of shipping from the department of Transport and correspondence from National Revenue, Canada, dating from 1964.
- General correspondence and survey forms from the department of Transport dating to 1964.
- General correspondence with various contractors and businesses in the shipbuilding industry, dating to 1964.
- Forms, correspondence, and surveyor’s reports dating to 1964.
- Blank survey formula forms from Norman Turner, marine surveyor and ships plans by Raymond H. Richards, naval architect & marine surveyor.
- Correspondence between Norman Turner and Mr. Jack H. Pert regarding measuring survey request, dated January 1964.
- Correspondence between Norman Turner and Yarrows Limited. And Victoria Machinery Depot Co., Limited and ships plans from Yarrows Limited, dating to 1962.
- Correspondence relating to measuring surveys for the British American Oil Company Limited and architectural plans for mooring float for B.A. Oil and Royal Victoria Yachting Club.
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.
Fonds consists of assorted log books dating from 1848 to 1976.
L238:
Signals Log for HMCS Armentieres dating from 22 October 1928 to 28 May 1929.
L552:
Deck log book from HMCS Armentieres dating from 16 April 1931 to July 1931.
L553:
Log book for HMCS Naden dating from 1929 to 1930.
L750:
Log book containing handwritten meeting minutes of the committee on establishment of permanent and consumable stores dating from March to May 1912.
L857:
Log book containing Data on Warships and other vessels supported by HMC Dockyard 1898-1917. This ledger appears to have been compiled by a dockyard official and contains several sets of records including all warships and other vessels supported by the Dockyard from 1898 to 1917, colliers that arrived Esquimalt from 1914 to 1917 with quantities of coal discharged and sources (whether Welsh or local or Australian), names of Admiralty colliers and transports that called at Esquimalt in 1915, a brief descriptions of coaling stations on the BC coast, lists of personnel employed in Esquimalt Dockyard from 1911 to 1917, wages paid from 1914 to 1915, and record of times to coal ships on various dates in 1917 which records how long coaling took and the average rate per hour.
L859:
Shipwright's journal from HMCS Ontario. The original journal pages have been cut out and replaced with plans and diagrams.
L874:
Official Log book of the Canadian Sealing Schooner Dora Sieward dated 18 January 1898. Also includes general regulations.
L1410:
Visitor's book.
L1411:
Blank log book for Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, ca. 1920s.
L2811a-d:
Signal log books for HMS Triumph dating from January 1882 to August 1884 and a signal log book for HMS Swiftsure dating from August to November 1884.
L3316a-b:
Journals consisting of notes, messages, and reflections dating from 31 July to 5 October 1916 and 6 October to 24 November 1916.
L3540:
Log book of HMCS Patrician dating from 1 January 1928 to 28 February 1921.
L4505:
Telegram registers dating from 6 August 1914 to 22 November 1915
984.031.0001-0003:
HMCS Patrician night rounds books dating to 1927.
985.076.0001-0006:
Specification booklets for various vessels including SS Canada Maru, SS Sima, SS Chouk, SS Saga, SS Sind, and SS Sarak dating from 1916 to 1918 and 1941.
986.042.0006:
(In ARC 59, need info)
986.098.0001-0002:
Undated gunners' Ledgers for explosive and non-explosive torpedo stores.
993.003.0052-0053:
Captain's Night Order Books dating from 1955 to 1957.
993.003.0054-056:
(in ARC 52, need info)
001.004.0005:
Log book of HMS Trafalgar dating from 1848 to 1868.
2023.021.0001:
Pilot House log of the Princess Marguerite from 1976.
The fonds consists of correspondence from J.S. Marshall and Company (private researchers) requesting historical information on Yarrows Ltd., carbon copy replies from Izard, and Izard's notes on the topic as well as on the subject of naming ships. Also includes a draft of a manuscript titled "History Project - Yarrows A", with amendments and annotations by E.W. Izard.
Fonds also includes a binder containing an index of Yarrows projects dating from 1914 to 1965.
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