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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