1960’s
A Personal View
The Characters and the Companies
A Historical Perspective
Allen Fowlis
2013 BC Towboat Conference
Victoria BC.
Coal Harbour 1950'sHoffarsVan tugWright MarineHarbour groceryVancouver ShipyardsBurrard shipyard & Marine WaysBelaire ShipyardBensons Shipyard
Vancouver Tug Executives
The Big Five
Island Tug & Barge
Vancouver Tug Boat
Gulf of Georgia
Straits Towing
River Towing
Harold Elworthy
Jim Stewart
Jim Byrn
George McKeen
Cecil Cosulich
The people of the Big Five
Acquisitions 50's & 6o's
Vancouver Tug Dolmage Towing Vancouver Barge Transportation Pacific Tanker Western Tug & Barge
Island Tug & Barge Young and Gore Victoria Tug Griffiths Steamship Co
Pacific Tanker
Vancover Tug Engineer
Vancouver Tug Port Captains
Vancouver Tug Operations Manager
Oil Barge Operations
Early Memories
Seaspan Shipyards
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Vancouver Shipyards opened in 1902 and was purchased by Vancouver Tug in 1954
Original shipyard site was the Foot of Gilford St. in Coal harbour, Moved to present location in 1967
Vancouver Drydock’s roots go back to the Wallace shipyards on that site since the early 1900’s
Victoria Shipyards roots go back to the founding of the graving dock in 1920’s
Seaspan also previously owned and operated the Point Ellice shipyard in Victoria, Now Point Hope Shipyard
Vancouver Shipyards in 1967
Vancouver Shipyards
Vancouver Drydock
Victoria Shipyards
Vancouver Tug LaunchingStar Shipyards 1967
Gulf of Georgia LaunchingGulf Horope 1968
Seaspan Launching Le BeauStar Shipyards 1970
Naval Architects
Robert Allan Snr. Robert Allan Jnr Derek Cove Peter Hatfield Gerry Talbot George Forbes
Captive Towboat Companies
Forest Industry Kingcome Canadian Tug Swiftsure Chemainus Escott
Cement Industry Ocean LaFarge
Seaspan 1970 - 1996
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Seaspan acquired FM Yorke and Son Ltd. adding more rail barges and two self propelled rail ferries to the fleet.
Seaspan acquired Gulf of Georgia towing in 1977 adding tugs and barges to the fleet
Seaspan became a partner in ATL in the Canadian Arctic, Operated tugs on the Canadian Atlantic, and in the North Sea.
Seaspan’s offshore division also operated specialized heavy lift barges moving cargos world wide
Seaspan began ship assist work at Roberts Bank and then moved into Vancouver harbour competing with C.H. Cates directly in 1993
F M Yorke & Sons Ltd.
Arctic Transportation
Offshore Division
Seaspan Shipdocking
Launching of Seaspan Commodore 1976
Commissioning of Seaspan Rigger1980
My Early Computer Experience
Golf Connections
Point Grey Golf Club Rod Lindsay
Lorne Hurschman
Bill McIntosh
Bill Osborne
B C T O A Tournaments
Bob Hodder
Denny Wotherspoon
Industry Associations
B C Towboat Owners Association Rate Book Bill Sankey
Towboat Employment Agency Cyril Andrews Tony Mortlach
Council of Marine Carriers Alistair Pollock Peter Woodward
More Memories
VSY Yard Christmas Parties Coal Harbour and North Vancouver
National Marine Conferences Gordon Sinclair – Marine Administrator
CMC Ottawa visits
International Tug Conferences
Fishing Trips
Seaspan Chinook Fishing Trips
Shipyards Over the Years
Vancouver Area Burrard Drydock Allied Shipbuilders Bel-Aire Shipyard McKenzie Barge Osborne Shipyard Matsumoto Vito Steel Boat Star Shipyard Westcoast Manly BC Marine
Victoria Area Yarrows Victoria Machinery Depot McKay Cormack Point Ellice
Future of Vancouver Shipyards
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