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Post by hergfest on Dec 31, 2007 19:59:28 GMT -8
Curved railing tells me Sechelt Queen, plus from looking at your other pic the stripe looks to be in the right place.
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Post by Curtis on Jan 1, 2008 1:18:48 GMT -8
I Agree, Sechelt Queen.
If Not, the Lost Spaulding, Queen of Richmond, One of the Only Photos Ever Found Of Her Taken Onboard. That's Probably at the Bow and She's Backing Up With her Stern Engines Explaining the Wake/Wash. In the Pic.
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Post by Retrovision on Jan 5, 2008 9:01:41 GMT -8
I don't care where, I care who! Beautiful and extremely inspirational photography nonetheless
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Post by Retrovision on Jan 5, 2008 9:12:39 GMT -8
I'll leave my previous post as is as simple gutteral reactionary tribute to these photogrpaphs that I've only not had a momemt to swallow en-masse. This is the kind of photography that I and any similarly inspired photographer should (and I very much do) take note of! I've passed through a world of gems in my lifetime and I still contend that this inspirational photography, ferries as the subject or not, should be quite an influence upon us all! Take note!
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Post by pscurr on Jan 5, 2008 12:09:17 GMT -8
To continue the detail on the Sechelt Queen... I am sure glad the days of smoking inside have long gone. However it would be a gem to find one of the old ash trays to use as a plant stand! I am also starting to look through the old slides of the trip to Alaska in 1966 on the new Queen of Prince Rupert...
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Post by Shane on Aug 25, 2005 7:50:32 GMT -8
The Sechelt Queen was finally retired from the Ministry of Transportation and Highways in 1982. For a while she sat at the B.C. Ferries yard, awaiting to be sold. However, "Expo 86" the World's Fair held in Vancouver found the Sechelt Queen pulled out of mothballs, repainted, and pressed into service once again. By the early 1990's she'd been sold and moved back to American registry. Her owner moved her down to Eagle Harbor, Washington at the WSF shipyard for inspection for possible use on the international run to Sidney B.C. Washington State Ferries passed. In 1994 Dunes Casinos purchased the ferry. She was towed from Seattle to San Diego. After a brief stay there, she went under tow to Mobile, Alabama. Renamed Muskegon Clipper, while under tow her captain ordered a unique method of asbestos abatement: load it up into bag and chuck it overboard. Needless to say the crew balked at it, but some carried out the order. No one is sure how many tons of asbestos were dumped into the ocean and gulf of Mexico. Her captain was senteced to two years in a federal prison for violating internation pollution laws. The last record on the former Chinook is a Coast Guard certificate from 1997. After that, nothing exists in the official record. Rumors abound from her hull still being a float to her being towed to India to be scrapped.
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Post by Ferryman on Aug 25, 2005 9:57:25 GMT -8
I keep getting this mixed up with the Langdale Queen, unless they're the same....but I heard that the casino company that bought her couldn't afford to transform her into a casino. So they removed the superstructure and used her hull as a barge. But there is another rumor her hull was scrapped last year. But I don't know if this is true until clarification from everyone else on this board.
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Aug 25, 2005 21:50:14 GMT -8
probably scrap metal was with the old lady awhile ago
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Post by ferryguy on Sept 25, 2005 22:06:39 GMT -8
The Sechelt Queen sunk off the coast of Oregon. This ferry had a icebreaker hull and was extremely heavy and slow. Affectionalty known as the SUZY Q, her engines had been sold off and she was under tow in heavy seas when she went under. I knew a few people who worker on her and they loved her.
Ferryguy
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Post by ferryguy on Sept 25, 2005 22:07:57 GMT -8
I apologise i was speaking of the Sunshine Coast Queen.
Ferryguy
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Post by divcoles on Mar 18, 2006 16:28:15 GMT -8
The engines were never removed from the Sunshine Coast Queen... just a few of the artifacts from the pilot house, and some of the portholes which were sold by Chenco of Puyallup Wa, the exporter, for use in maritime decorated restaurants. I have one of her binnacles, a telemoter, and two telegraph stands.
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Post by Retrovision on Mar 18, 2006 20:18:49 GMT -8
Apparently the Suzie Q's prospects for financial success in BC waters were doomed from the start, as she had so much weight to her because of her necessary ice-breaking capabilities for her former stomping grounds, the St.Laurence River.
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Post by divcoles on Mar 18, 2006 23:13:03 GMT -8
BC Ferries spent a fortune with Cove and Dixon Marine Architects doing prospective drawings of various combinations to make the Suzy Q more efficient. They looked at making her a single-ender, a double-ender with a different superstructure and different engines, and even going to nozzle propulsion, but they just couldn't get around the shape and weight of the hull. Also, the hull was not only welded, but riveted, and in salt water they were having problems with the rivet holes beginning to leak. Re-welding all the rivets in a 360' hull would have been prohibitively expensive, so they surplussed her.
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Post by FNS on Mar 29, 2006 21:00:32 GMT -8
I've seen the MV SECHELT QUEEN myself about a decade ago. She was moored for awhile next to Washington State Ferries' Vessel Maintenance Center in Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island, WA. She had a buff and black stack and had a half black hull, not the customary appearance Puget Sounders were used to seeing her when she was Black Ball's MV CHINOOK on the Seattle - Victoria - Port Angeles runs. She had a crimson, white and black color scheme here. WSF took a brief look at her next to VMC, but the car capacity was not to their liking. It was fun to see this ship from the deck of a WSF Jumboferry on the Seattle - Bainbridge run while it lasted.
-Seattle
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 30, 2006 9:02:12 GMT -8
I've seen the MV SECHELT QUEEN myself about a decade ago. She was moored for awhile next to Washington State Ferries' Vessel Maintenance Center in Eagle Harbor, Bainbridge Island, WA. She had a buff and black stack and had a half black hull, not the customary appearance Puget Sounders were used to seeing her when she was Black Ball's MV CHINOOK on the Seattle - Victoria - Port Angeles runs. She had a crimson, white and black color scheme here. WSF took a brief look at her next to VMC, but the car capacity was not to their liking. It was fun to see this ship from the deck of a WSF Jumboferry on the Seattle - Bainbridge run while it lasted. -Seattle I know this is a long shot...but you didn't happen to snap a photo of her, did you? I've found one, taken quite by accident by the DNR as part of a shoreline assessment for the state. Can't mistake that deck configuration. Just to be sure I got confirmation from a former worker at the yard who was working there at the time that it is indeed the Sechelt Queen sitting across from the Rhody on the right. He remembered her vividly because she looked so unlike anything that normally was tied up there.
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Post by FNS on Mar 31, 2006 16:21:51 GMT -8
Greetings, evergreenfleet!
Yes, I did take some pics of the SECHELT QUEEN (MV CHINOOK) from water level. I think I'll get a picture scan device for my pc soon.
Very neat picure. How neat it is that two 1947 ferries are seen together in a photo! The RHODODENDRON was built in Baltimore as GOVERNOR HERBERT R O'CONNOR. Interesting to learn if the RHODY was designed by the CHINOOK's same designer: Gibbs and Cox of New York? They have some sort of similar appearances (same kind of wheelhouse windows, slightly angled back).
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 31, 2006 18:24:20 GMT -8
Greetings, evergreenfleet! Yes, I did take some pics of the SECHELT QUEEN (MV CHINOOK) from water level. I think I'll get a picture scan device for my pc soon. Very neat picure. How neat it is that two 1947 ferries are seen together in a photo! The RHODODENDRON was built in Baltimore as GOVERNOR HERBERT R O'CONNOR. Interesting to learn if the RHODY was designed by the CHINOOK's same designer: Gibbs and Cox of New York? They have some sort of similar appearances (same kind of wheelhouse windows, slightly angled back). I hadn't thought of that but you're right! It would be great to see your photos. I've asked around from a few folks who remembered her there, but no one took photos.
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Post by WettCoast on May 1, 2006 21:36:51 GMT -8
Sechelt Queen backing out of Horseshoe Bay - 9 Sept 1972 photo - JST
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Post by EGfleet on May 2, 2006 5:34:19 GMT -8
Sechelt Queen backing out of Horseshoe Bay - 9 Sept 1972 photo - JST Cool photo! Thanks for posting it!
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Post by Curtis on May 2, 2006 6:42:43 GMT -8
Yeah thats a very good photo
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Post by Balfour on May 2, 2006 16:51:11 GMT -8
You never cease to amaze with those good old pics! Good work!
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Post by Mike C on May 2, 2006 17:36:13 GMT -8
That's some good stuff, right there, WestCoastKid!
BTW, what route did this astounding ferry do?
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Post by WettCoast on May 2, 2006 18:08:42 GMT -8
She handled the Langdale [Route 3] prior to the arrival of the SCQ.
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Post by Ferryman on May 2, 2006 18:52:57 GMT -8
She also did Route 2 (HSB-DPB) with the Langdale Queen, along with doing Route 1 once and a while. She was then sold the year the first three C-Class came, in 1976, and operated on the Comox to Powell River Route, until she was replaced by the Princess of Vancouver.
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Post by Mike C on May 2, 2006 20:06:29 GMT -8
Thanx for the info.
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