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Escort carriers at the Vancouver Shipyard in 1943 The USS Gambier Bay CVE-73, an escort carrier that was made in the Vancouver Shipyard. The Kaiser Company (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Vancouver Shipyard, was an emergency shipyard constructed along the Columbia River in Vancouver, Washington, to help meet the production demands of the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II.
HMCS Vancouver is a Halifax-class frigate, of the Royal Canadian Navy launched on 8 July 1989, as the second vessel of her class. She is based at CFB Esquimalt on the west coast of Canada, and is the third vessel to be named after Vancouver , British Columbia .
Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America, [2] operating a fleet of 41 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 ...
2012 – Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards commences the $170 million Shipyard Modernization Project in preparation for federal shipbuilding contracts under the NSS program. [18] 2014 – Canada's largest permanent gantry crane arrives at Seaspan's Vancouver Shipyards. The crane weighs in at 300 tonnes, stands 80 metres (260 ft) high and spans 76 ...
MV Quinitsa is an automobile ferry operated by BC Ferries.It was built in 1977 by Vancouver Shipyards in Vancouver, British Columbia.The ferry was originally part of the Ministry of Transportation and Highways' (MoT) saltwater ferry fleet until 1985, when the MoT's saltwater ferries—including Quinitsa—were transferred to BC Ferries.
False Creek Ferries, a division of Granville Island Ferries Ltd, [3] is a privately owned and operated ferry service that operates on False Creek near downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The False Creek Ferry fleet has grown from the four electric ferries that formed the company to a fleet that now consists of 17 ferries divided into ...
Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. Vancouver, British Columbia October 1942 17 May 1944 Prince Rupert, British Columbia No Flotilla Sold 1945 as Malibu Tyee, later Nancy N. Seymour, Sogno d'Oro, active ML 123 Q 123 Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd. Vancouver, British Columbia October 1942 6 October 1944 Vancouver, British Columbia No Flotilla
The museum was founded in 1980 as the Ontario Regiment Ferret Club. Housed in a garage in north Oshawa, the collection began with nine fully restored surplus Canadian Ferret armoured cars. [1] Ferret Scout Car in Canadian UN detail, 1993 First parade: (From left) ONT R HLCol Wilton, with CO LCol Morin and USO Capt Wilkinson (8CH), Oshawa, 1981