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Post by WettCoast on Aug 14, 2008 7:02:17 GMT -8
Yes, carpets were not installed on the V's/B's until they were stretched. The Queen of Esquimalt was considered quite something when she first appeared freshly stretched and carpeted in 1969.
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Post by Dane on Aug 14, 2008 7:22:51 GMT -8
I remember the SuzyQ had platform car decks, but have not found any reference to BCF installing them. Anyone know if the ship came to BCF with them already installed? If BC Ferries installed them I would guess it was done in 1968; she along with a few other vessels was given a rebuild to bring "standardization" into the fleet. These were fairly comprehensive from what I can gather, and could have potentially included platform decks.
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Post by Neil on Aug 14, 2008 10:30:53 GMT -8
Yes, carpets were not installed on the V's/B's until they were stretched. The Queen of Esquimalt was considered quite something when she first appeared freshly stretched and carpeted in 1969. I'll defer to you guys. Obviously my carpet memories are faulty.
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Post by Mill Bay on Aug 14, 2008 12:59:19 GMT -8
I remember the SuzyQ had platform car decks, but have not found any reference to BCF installing them. Anyone know if the ship came to BCF with them already installed? If BC Ferries installed them I would guess it was done in 1968; she along with a few other vessels was given a rebuild to bring "standardization" into the fleet. These were fairly comprehensive from what I can gather, and could have potentially included platform decks. Again, our good friend Les Bagley has the answer... After a quick touchup at Deas, Sunshine Coast Queen was taken to McKay-Cormak Shipyards in Victoria, where she was modified into the ultimate passenger and auto ferry, per BC Ferries specifications. The contract comprised 150 pages. The blueprints took up an entire room. Since she would no longer need overnight accommodations for crew or passengers, many of the cabins, including the captain's suite on the spar deck, were removed to enlarge passenger space. New stairways were installed where crew-only access was before. The original wide staircases leading from the car deck to her end lounges were removed to make room for platform ramp hydraulics on the car deck
The platforms, mounted at a mezzanine level between the floor and ceiling of the 14.5-foot car deck, provided parking for 30 additional cars. The outer lanes folded up for more over height truck space. The ramps could be raised with cars on them, so more cars could be parked below.
www.stignacenews.com/news/2008/0306/columns/047p4_xlg.jpg
Other interesting snippets from the book...: The Queen of Alberni's grounding actually helped keep the Susy-Q in service longer, because she was needed to stay running as a spare on the Langdale run. And, one for Donella: this is why they sometimes don't have reall plates and cutlery... At one point in her career, passengers complained when the galley switched from stainless and china to plastic utensils and paper plates. When asked why the change, a galley worker replied, "the hippies steal them."
Edited to make link clickable
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Post by chinook2 on Aug 14, 2008 15:51:42 GMT -8
Interesting---did not know the SuzyQ was reactivated to cover for the Alberni. Probably would have ran from early August until Labour day weekend.
I do recall the previous winter that when the Hood Canal bridge collapsed in late 1978, BCF offered to lend WSF the Suzy and one other ship (the old Surrey maybe) to provide extra capacity while the bridge was being rebuilt. WSF declined on the grounds that the BCF ships did not have sewage tanks.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 14, 2008 16:54:27 GMT -8
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Post by SS San Mateo on Sept 14, 2008 17:04:29 GMT -8
I believe it's the Pender Queen. The tall black mast at the stern is the giveaway.
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Post by Variable Pitch on Sept 14, 2008 20:13:04 GMT -8
No doubt that it is the Pender Queen. From the picture provided, you can see the form of the hull, the ships breadth and height, as well as the large square portholes on the car deck (a clear giveaway) and the funnel leaves no room for doubt..as well as the aft mast
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Post by Mike C on Sept 17, 2008 12:19:03 GMT -8
I was about to say George S Pearson...
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Post by lmtengs on Jun 26, 2009 1:53:58 GMT -8
what was the deal with the double stacks?
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 26, 2009 4:10:54 GMT -8
what was the deal with the double stacks? What's the deal with any ship's double-stacks? I wonder if it's just simpler to put a vertical pipe above each side's engine, instead of a connector pipe between the 2 engines for the exhaust.
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Post by D'Elete BC in NJ on Jun 26, 2009 5:12:49 GMT -8
lmao...it's early on the West Coast and Flug's on fire! ;D
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Post by Mill Bay on Jul 13, 2009 22:15:44 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Jul 13, 2009 22:23:34 GMT -8
WoW!!! That is an amazing photo! my guess would be maybe around '74? give it up for R.R Horne!!!
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Post by Curtis on Jul 14, 2009 10:52:38 GMT -8
This photo has me stunned; it's so beautiful. Sure doesn't get much better then that...
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 14, 2009 19:28:49 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 14, 2009 19:29:19 GMT -8
Taken from Dorman Point before the trees happened??
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 15, 2009 15:24:53 GMT -8
Sunshine Coast Queen, near Gunderson Slough in North Delta, about twenty years ago. I believe it had "Canarctic Explorer" painted at one end, as it had been briefly owned by Canarctic Ventures of North Vancouver, and there was some plan to use it as a supply ship up north. Don't think that ever happened. And, it wouldn't have been long after those photos were taken that this story appeared:
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 15, 2009 17:22:31 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 15, 2009 17:40:24 GMT -8
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 15, 2009 18:26:28 GMT -8
Kind of an interesting deck shot I just got of the Vacationland/Sunshine Coast Queen that I thought I'd share.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Nov 15, 2009 19:27:54 GMT -8
A few interesting bits of ephemera added to the collection.
A schedule from 1952 from the Michigan State ferries, featuring the Vacationland/Sunshine Coast Queen. The artist left very little doubt as to her ice-breaking capability...As always, if anyone would like a larger scan of these sent to them, let me know and I'll email it to you.
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Post by lmtengs on May 20, 2010 15:08:35 GMT -8
I like the look of the Suzy Q. She seems big, probably because of her in-sloping bow and other-bow.
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Post by acseagle on Oct 9, 2010 10:54:36 GMT -8
My grandfather was the last Captain of this ferry when it operated in the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan. Vacationland. It was nice reading this forum. I also just watched the video "A Ferry's Wake" Very interesting. My grandfather suspected the sinking may have been an insurance fraud.
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Post by mrdot on Oct 9, 2010 14:15:26 GMT -8
in my historic photo's found in wettcoast's flickr file are one of the Suzie Q. and Langdale Q. both of which have served on two coasts and have many lifes to tell! I did one shift on Langdale Q/ Kalokie, but only vued Suzie Q. from afar. If some of the ships that served the Sunshine Coast could talk, what stories they could tell!mrdot.
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