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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2012 12:37:22 GMT -8
Neil, I had forgotten Audrey's name. Using that to narrow the search I was able to find www.inmemoriam.ca/view-announcement-31527-gordon-leslie-croucher.html which gives a short biography at the time of his death April 28, 2009. I knew him in the reserves where we spent a year together is Vancouver's 15th Field Regiment back in the 70's. Interesting that he retired up near my home territory of Kamloops. I'll get checking with the Province to see if i can get a good copy of the picture.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 2, 2012 8:52:26 GMT -8
Today, I'm remembering the 3 people killed on the Queen of Victoria. - 42 years ago today.
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Post by Blisswood on Aug 2, 2012 18:02:09 GMT -8
I remembered the people, too: I phoned Royal Oak Burial Park to find out where the Hammonds were laid to rest. They sent me a PDF of the cemetery map, with the "section" and grid reference of the plots. Perhaps a pilgrimage is in order, especially for those of us who live in Greater Victoria, but I didn't want to do it on "the day" in case a relative was doing the same.
I wonder if the Old Cemeteries Society could put something together, based on the names we can provide for them. They mostly deal with Ross Bay Cemetery, but have done tours at Royal Oak. Just a thought...
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 5, 2012 20:34:39 GMT -8
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Post by Cat320DL on Aug 10, 2012 8:19:05 GMT -8
I don't know if I am posting this in the right place. So feel free to move it if it is not in the right place and sorry if it is. Any way I found this pic on the web and was thinking some of you may not have seen it. Now it is a "Sad pic" just so you know. Here is the link www.panoramio.com/photo/1746315Kyle
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 17, 2012 12:49:21 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Nov 2, 2012 9:09:50 GMT -8
Queen of Victoria, Swartz Bay bound, in Active Pass - 6 October 1972 - Fujichrome 72-14-04 - Nikon-VueScan photo © WCK-JST by Wett Coast, on Flickr[/size]
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Post by WettCoast on Jan 23, 2013 19:58:44 GMT -8
Queen of Victoria off of Village Bay, Mayne Island - 3 August 1982. When the V-class ruled on BC Ferries' route 1 (Tsawwassen - Swartz Bay). By 1982 all four V's in service on route 1 (Queens of Vancouver, Victoria, Esquimalt & Saanich) had been lengthened & lifted taking auto capacity from just over 100 (as built) to ~300. Today all of these ferries* have met the cutter's torch. *The Queen of New Westminster lives on and is for all intents & purposes a V-class ferry, though it started out as a B-class. The V's & B's are essentially the same class and are better named as the 'Seven Sisters'. photo © WCK-JST - Kodachrome 82-12-11 - VueScan by Wett Coast, on Flickr
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Post by mrdot on Jan 23, 2013 20:40:03 GMT -8
the quartette of the four regular vee class that served the first original BC ferry route for most of the last fifty years, were I believe, far and away the best value for tonnage/cost evaluation! mrdot.
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Post by Mike C on Jan 23, 2013 20:50:06 GMT -8
the quartette of the four regular vee class that served the first original BC ferry route for most of the last fifty years, were I believe, far and away the best value for tonnage/cost evaluation! mrdot. This is an interesting can of worms that maybe should not be opened in this particular thread, but I would be interested to see what the cost/tonnage ratio is for each of our vessels in 2012 dollars.
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Post by Ferryman on May 30, 2013 22:08:54 GMT -8
Some close up footage of the Queen of Victoria after she had been hit by the Freighter in 1970. The video appears to have originally been filmed from a projector which was projecting the picture on another screen, so there's no sound. There's additional general Ferry footage to note as well at the beginning as well.
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Post by WettCoast on Jun 7, 2013 19:23:14 GMT -8
A fresh scan of a photo that has been posted here before; the Victoria at Swartz Bay circa 1990... The ferry name on the stern is not clear enough for me to say with 100% certainty that this is the Victoria. The doubt is quantified at 0.1%. This is not a V-2 class vessel (e.g. QoE or QoS), but it is possibly the other V-1. Queen of Victoria @ Swartz Bay - c1990 [D.O. Thorne photo ©] by Wett Coast, on Flickr
Edit (2014 June 22): There is now no doubt; this is the Victoria. See newer scans of old Mr. DOT photos several posts below this one.
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Post by Ferryman on Jun 7, 2013 22:47:52 GMT -8
A fresh scan of a photo that has been posted here before; the Victoria at Swartz Bay circa 1990... The ferry name on the stern is not clear enough for me to say with 100% certainty that this is the Victoria. The doubt is quantified at 0.1%. This is not a V-2 class vessel (e.g. QoE or QoS), but it is possibly the other V-1 I would also agree that this would have been the Victoria. A sort of odd way of knowing the difference between the Vic and the Van was the thickness of the black band around the tip of the funnel. The Vancouver was Unique out of all of the V's with the fact that she had the thinner black band, as opposed to the other sisters who had a more defined black band around the tip of the funnel like we see in this photo.
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Post by edselboy on Jun 9, 2013 14:36:08 GMT -8
What did she hit something or get caught in bad weather?? I doubt it too! I dont think she would of sunk! I think the ol girl is still afloat!
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Post by edselboy on Jun 9, 2013 14:38:10 GMT -8
i love old ferries they had so much class and cool and feeling the ship move make smile i miss the queen of victoria
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Post by 7sisters on Oct 2, 2013 18:14:49 GMT -8
I just got an old Kodak slide I bought on e-bay of the Queen of Victoria today in the mail that was taken in May 1974.I have to say its one of the best colour pictures I have ever seen of the Victoria! A few years after the collision but before it was lifted. I am going to enlarge and frame it!
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Post by WettCoast on May 27, 2014 12:45:26 GMT -8
Here are two views of 'Miss Vickie' from the summer of 1982. These show the Victoria south bound in Active Pass off the Galiano Island shoreline. Note these are fresh scans of Mr. DOT original negatives. These have not been seen here before. For more of David's work please see his Flickr site. Both photos © Mr. DOT by mrdot., on Flickr I have now determined a means to differentiate the Victoria apart from its V-class sisters which I will explain over on this thread.
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Post by hullnumbers on Jul 22, 2014 21:47:55 GMT -8
Question, does anyone know the year when each Victoria Class ferry were stretched in order and when the four ferries that were lifted? When was the newly lifted ferries have the bow upper car deck modified for cars to load easily. This includes when the platform decks were added? I am doing some research on the ferries for the archives but it's hard to understand these huge changes that happened.
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Post by Dane on Jul 22, 2014 22:06:52 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Jul 23, 2014 9:04:18 GMT -8
Question, does anyone know the year when each Victoria Class ferry were stretched in order and when the four ferries that were lifted? When was the newly lifted ferries have the bow upper car deck modified for cars to load easily. This includes when the platform decks were added? I am doing some research on the ferries for the archives but it's hard to understand these huge changes that happened. The information provided by Dane is your best source. He has been revising it over time to reflect information that becomes available that pins down more precisely when changes occurred. I think that that is a continuing process. The years that the V/B class stretching took place are all as listed in Dane's info. The lifting of the V's plus QNWM are as listed. The Victoria & Vancouver were done over the off-season of 1981-82; the Esquimalt & Saanich the following off-season. The liftings were done one after the other; in other words they did one in the fall & early winter of 1980, & the other in the winter/spring of 1981. In the summer of 1981 Route 1 featured two lifted V's, the brand new Queen of Oak Bay, and one unlifted V. The other unlifted V may have been used as a fifth supplemental vessel. By the summer of 1982 all four V's were lifted and the Queen of Oak Bay had been sent north to Route 2. The bow modifications you talk about all took place (AFAIK) over the winter of 1983-84. There was an article in the BCFC corporate magazine 'The Dolphin' about those modifications and a copy of that can be found here on the WCFF in at least a couple of places. Modifications were also made at the stern though they were not as dramatic and fewer people seem to know about that. I think there is uncertainty on when the vessels first acquired 'ramps' on the MCD. Dane has dates showing as ~1968, in other words just a year before the first stretching was done. I thought these modifications were done a few years earlier, but I'm less than certain. For great detail from a Province newspaper article from 1981 please see the following: i90.photobucket.com/albums/k268/wetcoastkidjst/Seven%20Sisters/MarkWilson-Province4Jan811.jpg~originali90.photobucket.com/albums/k268/wetcoastkidjst/Seven%20Sisters/MarkWilson-Province4Jan812.jpg~originali90.photobucket.com/albums/k268/wetcoastkidjst/Seven%20Sisters/MarkWilson-Province4Jan813.jpg~original
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Post by Starsteward on Jul 23, 2014 11:25:08 GMT -8
Here are two views of 'Miss Vickie' from the summer of 1982. These show the Victoria south bound in Active Pass off the Galiano Island shoreline. Note these are fresh scans of Mr. DOT original negatives. These have not been seen here before. For more of David's work please see his Flickr site. Both photos © Mr. DOT by mrdot., on Flickr I have now determined a means to differentiate the Victoria apart from its V-class sisters which I will explain over on this thread. A beautiful and eternal classy design, accentuated with the Dogwood Flag on the funnel and of course the pastel blue markings. Ah for yesteryear
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Post by hullnumbers on Jul 23, 2014 18:38:28 GMT -8
Thanks Dane and Wett Coast, this will help.
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Post by chinook2 on Aug 2, 2014 14:40:02 GMT -8
re platform decks, 1967-69 for the Victorias and the Tsawwassen, 1972 for the sidney. I have seen a list of modification dates from a BCF document, possibly the ships and terminals booklet the VI regional library has.
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Post by EGfleet on Sept 12, 2014 12:51:04 GMT -8
Another slide here--a rather gray day and the Queen of Victoria back in 1974.
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Post by Kam on Aug 24, 2015 20:48:59 GMT -8
Found some rather stunning footage of the crash on Youtube that I've never seen before:
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