List of retired BC Ferries ships

List of retired BC Ferries:

Unknown Year

• MV George S. Pearson (built in 1925 as MV Wollochet)^[1], later known as MV Fox Island.Retired in 1966.

1960s

• MV Quillayute (built in 1927)^[2]

• MV Cy Peck (built in 1913 as SS Daily, later known as Island Princess then even later as MV Cy Peck)^[3]

• MV Jervis Queen (built in 1928 as MV Bainbridge)^[4]

• SS Smokwa (built in 1946 as SS Scotian)^[5]

1970s

• Langdale Queen (built in 1903 by William Cramp and Sons of Philadelphia as the coastal steamer SS Asbury Park; purchased by the Monticello Steamship Company and moved to San Francisco Bay in 1918, where she was refitted and rebuilt as the car ferry SS City of Sacramento; transferred to Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries in 1925 and enlarged; purchased by Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSNC) in 1941 and moved to the Seattle-Bremerton route in Puget Sound; transferred to PSNC's Canadian affiliate, Black Ball Ferries, in 1952 and refitted and rebuilt as MV Kahloke to operate on the Horseshoe Bay-Nanaimo route across the Strait of Georgia; purchased by BC Ferries in 1961; renamed MV Langdale Queen and moved to the Horseshoe Bay-Langdale route in 1964; retired in 1976; hull intermittently used as a barge in the 1980s; scrapped in 2005)^[6]

• MV Sechelt Queen (built by Todd Shipyards (Seattle) in 1947 as MV Chinook, refitted and rebuilt in 1954 as MV Chinook II)^[7]

• MV Sunshine Coast Queen (built in 1951 as MV Vacationland; purchased as MV Père Nouvel in 1966)

• MV Dogwood Princess

1980s

• MV Pender Queen (built by Yarrows Shipyards of Esquimalt in 1923 as MV Motor Princess)^[8] Retired in 1980

• MV Princess of Vancouver (built in 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland, for the Canadian Pacific Railway)

1990s

• MV Queen of the Islands (built by Burrard Dry Dock in 1963)

• MV Salt Spring Queen (built by Yarrows Shipyards of Esquimalt in 1949 as MV Delta Princess)

• MV Vesuvius Queen (built by Victoria Machinery Depot in 1951 as MV Lloyd Jones, sold to R & G Importadora & Exportadora of the Dominican Republic in 1998)^[9]

2000s

• MV Queen of Sidney (built by Victoria Machinery Depot in 1960 as MV Sidney)

• MV Queen of Victoria (built by Victoria Machinery Depot in 1962 as MV City of Victoria, sold to R & G Importadora & Exportadora of the Dominican Republic in 2001)^[10]

• MV Albert J. Savoie Was a sister ship to the Nicola, Garibaldi 2 and Nimpkish. Retired in 2002.

• MV Queen of Esquimalt (built by Victoria Machinery Depot in 1963, sold to a Chinese operator in 2008)^[11]

• MV Queen of the North (built in 1969 as MV Stena Danica; renamed MV Queen of Surrey in 1973; renamed MV Queen of the North in 1976; sank in Wright Sound on March 22, 2006)

• FastCat Series (three high-speed catamarans built by a subsidiary of BC Ferries, the first two of which were in service in 1999 and 2000)
  • MV PacifiCat Explorer (built in 1998; sold to Washington Marine Group in 2003)
  • MV PacifiCat Discovery (built in 1999; sold to Washington Marine Group in 2003)
  • MV PacifiCat Voyager (built in 2000; sold to Washington Marine Group in 2003)

• MV Dogwood Princess II

• MV Albert J. Savoie

• Queen of Esquimalt

• MV Queen of Tsawwassen (built by Burrard Dry Dock in 1960 as MV Tsawwassen)^[12]

• V class ferrys
  • MV Queen of Vancouver (built by Burrard Dry Dock in 1962 as MV City of Vancouver)^[13]
  • MV Queen of Saanich (built by Victoria Machinery Depot in 1963)

• MV Queen of Prince Rupert was the last BC Ferry built at VMD.

Planned to be Retired

The Queen of Chilliwack is planned to be retired sometime in the next few years, to be replaced by the Northern Discovery. BC Ferries has not yet released any plans on how large the new ship will be, or if it will be built or bought second-hand.

Several of the K class ferrys that had served as Albion ferries are retired and for sale after the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge in 2009.

See also

• Sidney class ferry
• V class ferry

References

External links

• BC Ferries Milestone
• Black Ball ferries of Puget Sound transferred to British Columbia waters in the 1950s (Group 1)
• Black Ball ferries of Puget Sound transferred to British Columbia waters in the 1950s (Group 2)
• Ships of the BC Ferries fleet
• MV Albert J. Savoie

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