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Queen Of Cowichan
MV ''Queen of Cowichan'' is a BC Ferries vessel, built in Victoria, British Columbia in 1976. It joined the other two C-class ferries built that year, and , and was followed by and . The ship, like all C-class ferries, is double-ended. This means the ship never has to turn around in port during regular service. The ship's two MaK 12M551AK engines turn out which gives it a service speed of . Like all the C-class ferries it is long. Almost identical to ''Queen of Coquitlam'', the vessel has a car capacity of 312 and a passenger capacity for 1,494 people. The ship has three car decks. A lower (main) car deck, for trucks busses and overheight vehicles, a gallery deck for overheight vehicles cars and bicycles, and an upper car deck for cars and motorcycles. She is named for the regional district of Cowichan Valley Regional District The Cowichan Valley Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that is on the southern part of Vancouver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowichan Valley, British Columbia
The Cowichan Valley is a region around the Cowichan River, Cowichan Bay and Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. There is some debate as to the origin of the name Cowichan, which many believe to be an anglicized form of the First Nations tribal name Quw'utsun. Communities Communities that lie within the actual Cowichan River/Cowichan Bay watershed include Duncan, Lake Cowichan, Cowichan Bay, Cowichan Station and Maple Bay. Other nearby communities are affiliated mainly through the Cowichan Valley Regional District. Crofton and Chemainus, lie within the Chemainus River Valley, while Cobble Hill, Shawnigan Lake, Mill Bay, and Ladysmith inhabit a coastal plain that includes the Cowichan and Chemainus River deltas. The Trans Canada Trail goes through the Valley, and there are numerous options for hiking enthusiasts. On January 7, 2010 an air quality monitoring station was installed. Agriculture The Cowichan Valley is the home of a growing number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BC Ferries
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., Trade name, operating as BC Ferries (BCF), is a former provincial Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation, now operating as an independently managed, State-owned enterprise, publicly owned Canadian company. BC Ferries provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Puget Sound Navigation Company, Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by strike action, job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America, operating a fleet of 41 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 locations on the B.C. coast. The federal and provincial governments subsidize BC Ferries to provide agreed service levels on essential links between the BC mainland, coastal islands, and parts of the mainland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departure Bay, British Columbia
Departure Bay is a bay in central Nanaimo, British Columbia, on the east coast of Vancouver Island. The surrounding neighbourhood is also referred to as "Departure Bay" —once a settlement of its own, it was amalgamated into the City of Nanaimo in the 1970s. __TOC__ Geography The bay is framed to the west by Vancouver Island and to the south-east by Saysutshun (formerly Newcastle Island), a provincial marine park with a long history of mining, quarrying, herring salteries, and tourism. Jesse Island () and the smaller Brandon Islands are located near the northern shore of the bay. Both islands, though quite small, have varied histories; Brandon Island being notable for a history of Japanese fish canneries and salteries. In 1853 both islands were named after sailors on HMS Virago. Snake Island is a located just outside the mouth of the bay. The "Departure Bay" neighbourhood surrounds most of the bay; though the north-eastern shoreline is referred to as Stephenson Point, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver
Horseshoe Bay (), formerly known as Whytecliff (1937–1945) and White Cliff City (1909–1937), is a List of communities in British Columbia, community in West Vancouver, in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia. It is part of the Greater Vancouver area and marks the entrance to Howe Sound. It is also the western terminus of both British Columbia Highway 1, Highway 1 on the BC mainland and the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway on the Canadian mainland. The Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal is one of BC Ferries' busiest terminals, serving an estimated 7 million passengers and 3 million vehicles every year. History The indigenous Squamish people of the area called the bay , meaning "sizzling waters", because they observed salmon pushing Shoaling and schooling, schools of herring to the surface, giving the appearance of bubbling or sizzling water. Howe Sound () was later charted in 1909 by an Admiralty Survey Expedition, which, upon seei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burrard Dry Dock
Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Together with neighbouring North Van Ship Repair and Yarrows Ltd. of Esquimalt, which were both later purchased by the company, Burrard built and refitted over 450 ships, including many warships for the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy during the First and Second World Wars. History * 1894 – Alfred "Andy" Wallace begins building wooden fish boats at False Creek area of Vancouver, British Columbia. These boatworks burned down in 1909 and was abandoned. * 1905 – Wallace Shipyards is incorporated. The following year the company establishes a new, larger shipyard at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver. * 1911 – July 11, the shipyard is destroyed by fire but is immediately rebuilt. * 1914–18 – During the First World War, Wallace Shipyards is contracted to make shells for 18-pounder guns, then builds 6 large cargo schooners and 3 freighters – th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the seventh most densely populated city in Canada with . Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, Harbour Air Seaplanes, seaplane, ferry, or the Clipper Navigation, Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and from Port Angeles, Washington, Port Angeles, Washington (state), Washington, by ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Named for Queen Victoria, the city is one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritime Call Sign
Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats. All radio transmissions must be individually identified by the call sign. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. History One of the earliest applications of radiotelegraph operation, long predating broadcast radio, were marine radio stations installed aboard ships at sea. In the absence of international standards, early transmitters constructed after Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901 were issued arbitrary two-letter calls by radio companies, alone or later preceded by a one-letter company identifier. These mimicked an earlier railroad telegraph convention where short, two-letter identifiers served as Morse code abbreviations to denote the various individual stations on the line (for instance, AX could represent Halifax). "N" and two letters would identify U.S. Navy; "M" and two letters would be a Marconi station. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-class Ferry
The C-class ferries (also known as ''Cowichan'' class) are a class of five double-ended roll-on/roll-off ferry, ferries operated by BC Ferries in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia, constructed between 1976 and 1981. When the vessels were first built, they were the largest ships of their kind in the world. The C-class ferries are long, with a car capacity of 316, and a crew and passenger capacity of 1494 persons. Each vessel's two MaK 12M551AK engines produce 11,860 horsepower, HP, which provides a maximum service speed of . C-class vessels The first two C-class ferries built were ''Queen of Coquitlam'' and ''Queen of Cowichan'', constructed in 1976. ''Queen of Oak Bay'' and ''Queen of Surrey'' were built in 1981. There were some minor modifications to the design of the two later ships compared to the earlier C-class ships; most noticeably, ''Queen of Oak Bay'' and ''Queen of Surrey'' both have longer passenger decks than their older sisters. The C-class vessels were design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowichan Valley Regional District
The Cowichan Valley Regional District is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia that is on the southern part of Vancouver Island, bordered by the Nanaimo and Alberni-Clayoquot Regional Districts to the north and northwest, and by the Capital Regional District to the south and east. As of the 2021 Census, the Regional District had a population of 89,013. The regional district offices are in Duncan. The current Chair of the Cowichan Valley Regional District is Kate Segall Geography The Cowichan Valley Regional District covers an area between the Stuart Channel and Saanich Inlet on the east coast of Vancouver Island and the southern part of the West Coast Trail, with Cowichan Lake and Cowichan Valley proper located in its central region. It includes the Gulf Islands of Thetis, Penelakut and Valdes. The total land area is 3,473.12 km2 (1,340.98 sq mi). Communities Incorporated communities * City of Duncan – pop. 5,047 * Town of Ladysmith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C-class Ferries
C class may refer to: Ships * C-class destroyer (other), multiple destroyers * C-class submarine (other), multiple submarines * C-class corvette (other), ships of the Victorian Royal Navy * C-class cruiser, Royal Navy light cruisers built just before the First World War * C-class ferry, Canadian ships * C-class lifeboat, British lifeboats * International C-class catamaran, sailing catamaran Rail vehicles Australia * C-class Melbourne tram * C-class Sydney tram * Commonwealth Railways C class, 4-6-0 passenger locomotives * MRWA C class, 4-6-2 steam locomotives * Victorian Railways C class, 2-8-0 steam locomotives * Victorian Railways C class (diesel), diesel locomotives * WAGR C class, axle load steam locomotives * WAGR C class (1880), steam locomotives * WAGR C class (diesel), diesel locomotives Ireland * CIÉ 201 Class, locomotives New Zealand * NZR C class (1873), tank locomotives * NZR C class (1930), steam locomotives United Kingdom * LB&SCR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Ships
Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. * January 27 ** The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state. ** The First Battle of Amgala (1976), First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara. February * February 4 ** The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. ** The 7.5 1976 Guatemala earthquake, Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured. * February 9 – The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
