BC Marine Shipbuilders

B.C. Marine Shipbuilders, Vancouver BC

This shipyard was originally established in 1898 as a subsidiary of B.C. Marine Railway Co of Esquimalt. When that firm was sold to Sir Alfred Yarrow in 1914, the Vancouver operation became independent and carried on under the name B.C. Marine Ltd. It was primarily a repair facility, located at the north end of Victoria Drive, in Vancouver, but it did build two sizeable wooden-hulled vessels at the end of World War One and sporadically built a few barges and scows, primarily for its own use. It was reorganized in 1962 and renamed B. C. Marine Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd., to take advantage of new Government subsidies. It was acquired by its neighbor, RivTow Marine, in 1982, along with West Coast Salvage & Contracting and John Manly, Ltd., and all four operations were merged, using B.C. Marine's Victoria Drive location. The new company was called RivTow Industries, but was generally known as West Coast Manly Shipyards. See the site from the air on Google here. Comments or queries, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.

See below for ships built by B.C. Marine Ltd and B.C. Marine Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd.

Most recent update: 16 July 2021.

Hull #	O.N.	Original Name	Original Owner	Vessel Type	GT	Built	Disposition
Built by B.C. Marine Ltd
	141709	Capilano	Union Steamship Co.	Pass/Cargo	374	1920	Later Bedwell 1949, scuttled 1951
	150428	Lady Kindersley	Hudsons Bay Co.	Schooner	714	1920	Abandoned in ice off Point Barrow 1924
Built by B.C. Marine Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd
1	320253	Georgia Straits	Straits Towing Co. Ltd.	Tug	71	1963	Now Island Navigator
2	320245	Haro Straits	Straits Towing Co. Ltd.	Tug	71	1963	Lost off Point Roberts 1970
3	322437	Malaspina Straits	Straits Towing Co. Ltd.	Tug	71	1964	Active
4	323209	Marion Rose II	Portland Canal Constn.	Boom Boat	3	1964	Closed 2004
5	322507	S.L. No.1	Straits Towing Co. Ltd.	Boom Boat	3	1964	Closed 1997
6	322508	S.L. No.2	Straits Towing Co. Ltd.	Boom Boat	3	1964	Closed 1997
7	323263	Bering Straits	Straits Towing Co. Ltd.	Tug	59	1965	Active
8	326544	Captain Cook	Deeks McBride Co Ltd	Tug	124	1966	Active
9	325633	W.S.	B.C. Marine Shipbuilders	Boom Boat	3	1965
10	325610	Dolphin Straits	Rivtow Straits	Tug	15	1965	Active
11				Boom Boat	3	1966
12	327104	Island Rustler	Island Tug & Barge	Tug	40	1967	Later Seaspan Rustler, Rustler II, now Jervis Titan
13							Not used
14	328958	Gulf Bee	Gulf of Georgia Towing	Tug	148	1968	Later Seaspan Breeze 1980, now Braveheart II
15	329465	Gulf Jean	Gulf of Georgia Towing	Tug	147	1968	Later Seaspan Navigator 1980, closed 2000
16	330364	Valerie L.	Lyttle Brothers Towing	Tug	9	1968	Suspended 2004
17	330366	Phyllis L	Lyttle Brothers Towing	Tug	9	1968	Later Saltspring Prince, now Delta Prince
18	330867	Gulf Marjorie	Gulf of Georgia Towing	Tug	146	1969	Later Seaspan Wave 1980, scrapped 2000
19	331309	La Fleur	Vancouver Tug & Bargen	Tug	74	1969	Later Seaspan Charger, scrapped
20	331955	Evco Foam	Ocean Cement Ltd	Tug	71	1970	Now Seaspan Foam
21							Cancelled
22							Cancelled
23	344613	Swiftsure III	B.C. Forest Products Ltd.	Tug	87	1970	Now Race Point I
24	347770	Nimpkish	BC Dept. of Highways	Ferry	266	1973	Active
25	347956	Edwin Lindberg	Arctic Nav. & Tptn.	River Tug	331	1973	Now Arctic Kugaluk
26	347818	Arcnav No.1	Adby Transportation	Tank Barge	808	1973	Later Raven IV, closed 2008
27	347819	Arcnav No.2	Adby Transportation	Tank Barge	808	1973	Later ITB 502, now Boss 502
28	347820	Arcnav No.3	Arctic Nav. & Tptn.	Tank Barge	808	1973	Active
29	347821	Arcnav No.4	H.M. Trimble & Sons	Tank Barge	808	1973	Active
30	347822	Arcnav No. 5	H.M. Trimble & Sons	Tank Barge	808	1973	Now PB 10
31	347823	Arcnav No. 6	Mercury Tanklines	Tank Barge	808	1973	Active
32	368712	Elliott Straits	Rivtow Straits Ltd.	Tug	149	1974	Later K. G. Hodder, now D. D. Catherwood
33	369558	Ballantyne Straits	Rivtow Straits Ltd.	Tug	149	1975	Active
34	348889	Arctic Sun	Arctic Nav. & Tptn.	Tug	145	1974	Closed 1998
35	348888	Ichabod	Arctic Nav. & Tptn.	Spud Scow	479	1974	Active
36	370187	Dawn Treader No. 1	D.L. Lansdowne	Fishing	62	1975	Now Dawn Treader III
37	368368	Canmar Barge No. 1	Canadian Marine Drilling	Tank Barge	1,789	1975	Now Canmar Barge No. I
38	370748	Canmar Supplier V	Canadian Marine Drilling	AHTS	627	1976	Later Anya, DF Discoverer (S. Africa) scrapped 2014
39	372628	Bundler No. 1	RSL Log Sorting Ltd.	Barge	65	1977	Active
40	383418	Rivtow 902	Rivtow Straits	Barge	842	1978	Active
41	383461	Pachena No. 1	Seaboard Trading Co.	Fishing	95	1978	Active
42	392754	Rivtow 903	Rivtow Straits	Barge	842	1979	Active
43	391844	Proud Canadian	John Manly Ltd	Fishing	88	1979	Hull only: completed as Manly's Hull 539
44	393479	B.C. Baron	John Manly Ltd	Fishing	90	1979	Hull only: completed as Manly's Hull 563
45	395400	Babine Itinerant	Babine Forest Products	Passenger	294	1980	Active
46	395909	Rivtow 904	Rivtow Straits	Barge	891	1980	Active
47	801015	Rivtow 1000	Rivtow Straits	Barge	891	1981	Active
48	801067	Rivtow 1001	Rivtow Straits	Barge	891	1981	Active
49	801524	Rivtow 1002	Rivtow Straits	Barge	891	1982	Active
50	802198	Rivtow 1003	Rivtow Straits	Barge	891	1982	Active
51	803635	Rivtow 1004	Rivtow Straits	Barge	891	1983	Active

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