Ferry name-game: town, person, other

[Low Light Mike]

Here's a fun game for recalling names of car&truck-ferries that have worked in BC or Washington or Alaska (freshwater or salt, past or present ships, any of multiple-names that a ship has used).

For each reply, try to name a ferry in each of 3 categories:
- named for a specific town (city, village, or province)
- named for a person
- named for an island or water-body or other specific geographic feature.
(and post them in that order)

Limit of 1 reply for each person, per day (hey, I think that limit is for me... ;D).

...and for those schemers, the answer is "No". (the question is: "can I use "Victoria" as a person's name?").
- You want to consider what the ferry name was intended to honour or recognize, not just a coincidence. Otherwise you'd be choosing a guy named Jervis...
- I'm assuming that the WSF ferries such as Spokane or Walla Walla were named so because they were "native words", not because they were names of a specific city that was being honored. I'll let a south-of-49th expert weigh-in on this one....


Lets see how long this can continue before we exhaust all the names.
- lets also see which categories runs-dry first.
- and be prepared to justify your response
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I'll start us out with some obvious easy ones:

- Queen of Vancouver
- Seaspan Doris
- Howe Sound Queen


(Seaspan Doris was named for Doris Yorke, presumably one of Lorne's children).

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The running tally sheet of qualifying names used:

Town, city, province, etc:
- Tsawwassen (twice),
- Vancouver (Queen-of and also Princess-of)
- Nanaimo (Queen-of and also Princess-of)
- Seattle
- Sidney
- Victoria
- Burnaby
- Nova Scotia
- New Westminster
- British Columbia
- Esquimalt
- Steilacoom
- Surrey
- Sacramento
- Needles
- Wahkiakum County
- Village of Cumberland
- Walla Walla
- Chilliwack
- Balfour BC
- Prince Rupert
- Spokane
- Bremerton
- Powell River
- Port Angeles
- Mill Bay
- Mt. Vernon
- Comox
- Oak Bay
- Coquitlam
- Langdale
- Clinton
- Saanich
- North Vancouver
- Mukilteo
- Lardeau (up near Trout Lake City)
- Bellingham
- Asbury Park
- Ballard
-




Person:
- Doris Yorke
- Albert Savoie
- Sealth
- Greg Yorke
- Cyrus Peck, VC
- George Pearson, MP
- Father Charles Pandosy
- Elaine Bennes
- Chief Chetzemoka
- Princess Marguerite
- Chief Leschi (thanks Bryan)
- Catherine Graham
- Ethel Hunter
- Martha Shain
- Sonia
- Bailey Gatzert
- Earle Westwood
- Lorraine Savoie
- John Atlantic Burr
- Jacob Henkel
- Skansonia
- Frances Barkley
- Crosline (for Captain Crosby)
- R.J. Breadner
- H.B. Kennedy
- Charlie Wells
- Rolf Bruhn
- Jacqueline something
- Dick Borch
- Harry W. Nice
- Lloyd Jones
- Patricia, someone's little princess
- Herbert R. O'Connor
- Bartlett
- M.R. Chessman
- Oral Freeman
- Crown Princess Victoria
- Charles Van Damme
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-



Geographic feature:
- Howe Sound
- Skeena River
- Vashon Island
- Bowen Island
- (Fraser River) Delta
- North Vancouver Island
- Vancouver Island (Spirit of and Princess)
- T'Lagunna (First Nations word for "Golden Ears")
- Salt Spring Island
- Mayne Island
- Pender Island
- Olympic Mountains
- Lake Chelan (thanks Bryan)
- Taku glacier
- Capilano River
- Guemes Island
- Sunshine Coast
- Elwha River
- Galena Bay, BC
- Mt. Klitsa
- Nimpkish Lake
- Hornby Island
- Kulshan
- Kwuna point
- Quillayute river
- Columbia glacier in Alaska
- Cascade mountains and/or inlet
- Puget Sound
- Omineca Mountains
- Tustumena glacier in Alaska
- Quadra Island
- Mt. Marcy
- Lake Quinault
- "the Islands" (that's pretty specific, huh)
- Mt. Garibaldi
- Klickitat (aka "Mt. Adams")
- Lake Superior
- Nisqually (river & glacier)
- Chilkat glacier in Alaska
- Point Defiance
-

[Ferryman]

Queen of Nanaimo
Albert J. Savoie
Skeena Queen

;D

[EGfleet]

Seattle from the city


Sealth From the chief of the same name.


Vashon from the island of the same name.

[Scott (Former Account)]

Queen of Sidney ...named after the town of Sidney.
Seaspan Greg ...named after Greg Yorke.
Bowen Queen ...named after Bowen Island.

[mrdot]

:)how about these three, Q of Tsawwassen, Delta Queen, and Cy Peck. I was going to suggest Alex Fraser, who sat with me at the innaugral of Queen of Oak Bay, but his name lives on as one of BC,s first modern bridges. :)mrdot.

[Curtis]

Queen of Victoria
George S. Pearson
North Island Princess

[Scott]

Queen of Burnaby - I'll start with my hometown.
Princess Sophia - Probably named after Princess Sophia of England (1777-1848)
Spirit of Vancouver Island - Self-explanatory

[Low Light Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 12:56:57 GMT -8 Scott said:

Princess Sophia - Probably named after Princess Sophia of England (1777-1848)

How many cars or trucks could the Princess Sophia carry? ;D

- Does anyone known if the CP BCCSS naming-scheme was just to attach any female name to the Princess prefix? Or were they named with specific real-life princesses in mind?

[Neil]

Scotian
Pendozi
T'Lagunna

The Turner book says that the first 'princess' boat, the Princess May, was named for the wife of the Duke of Cornwall and York, so I'm assuming that other boats were also named for real women.

[Queen of Nanaimo Teen]

Queen of New Westminster -
Princess Elaine
Saltspring Queen

[FerryDude2012]

Spirit of British Columbia (obviously named after our province of BC)
MV Lady Rose (probably named after Lady Rose McLaren, a British aristocrat)
Mayne Queen (named after Mayne Island)

[Mike]

Queen of Esquimalt
Princess Charlotte
Pender Queen

[Low Light Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 14:51:48 GMT -8 FerryDude2012 said:

MV Lady Rose (probably named after Lady Rose McLaren, a British aristocrat)

How many cars or trucks could the Lady Rose carry in her work as a car or truck ferry?

;D

[Low Light Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 14:56:01 GMT -8 Mike said:

Queen of Vancouver

...already taken. Please choose a different ship...

[FerryDude2012]

Dec 4, 2010 15:04:11 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

Dec 4, 2010 14:51:48 GMT -8 FerryDude2012 said:

MV Lady Rose (probably named after Lady Rose McLaren, a British aristocrat)

How many cars or trucks could the Lady Rose carry in her work as a car or truck ferry?

;D

My mistake
I'd like to change my answer to MV Bainbridge (can be named after many people)

[SS San Mateo]

MV Steilacoom
MV Chetzemoka
MV Olympic

[Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 15:05:39 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

Dec 4, 2010 14:56:01 GMT -8 Mike said:

Queen of Vancouver

...already taken. Please choose a different ship...

Sorry, didn't even see it was taken.

Queen of Esquimalt it is then.

[Low Light Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 14:56:01 GMT -8 Mike said:

Princess Charlotte

How many cars or trucks could the Princess Charlotte carry in her work as a car or truck ferry?


There are many passenger-only steamships that were named for people. But the focus of this little game is on car & truck ferries. Sorry. Otherwise, you may as well go through all the CP BCCSS ships and a good portion of the Union ships too.
- but it's tougher for car & truck ferries, but not impossible.

And I'm not talking about hoist&stow ferries, I'm referring to ships that are somewhat Ro/Ro.

[Mirrlees]

Queen of Saanich - after the municipality of Saanich.
Lloyd Jones - former name of Vesuvius Queen on Lake Okanagan.
Queen of the Islands - after the Gulf Islands.

[Low Light Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 15:23:09 GMT -8 FerryDude2012 said:

Dec 4, 2010 15:04:11 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

How many cars or trucks could the Lady Rose carry in her work as a car or truck ferry?

;D

My mistake
I'd like to change my answer to MV Bainbridge (can be named after many people)

All right, it's time for you to explain how the ferry Bainbridge was named specifically in reference to a person.
- me thinks that it's obviously named for the island that it served.

......wow, moderating a game is as much fun as moderating the rest of the forum, hahah.
- we should use this as a test. ;D

[EGfleet]

Dec 4, 2010 16:08:46 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

Dec 4, 2010 15:23:09 GMT -8 FerryDude2012 said:

My mistake
I'd like to change my answer to MV Bainbridge (can be named after many people)

All right, it's time for you to explain how the ferry Bainbridge was named specifically in reference to a person.
- me thinks that it's obviously named for the island that it served.

......wow, moderating a game is as much fun as moderating the rest of the forum, hahah.
- we should use this as a test. ;D

I'll jump in to the rescue with the answer to that...

"In 1841, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes visited the island while surveying the Northwest. Lt. Wilkes named the island after Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the frigate U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812."

[Low Light Mike]

Dec 4, 2010 16:11:39 GMT -8 EGfleet said:

Dec 4, 2010 16:08:46 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

All right, it's time for you to explain how the ferry Bainbridge was named specifically in reference to a person.
- me thinks that it's obviously named for the island that it served.

......wow, moderating a game is as much fun as moderating the rest of the forum, hahah.
- we should use this as a test. ;D

I'll jump in to the rescue with the answer to that...

"In 1841, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes visited the island while surveying the Northwest. Lt. Wilkes named the island after Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the frigate U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812."

Ok, so now when the ferry Bainbridge was commissioned, who or what do you think the officials had in mind, when they decided to name the ferry?
- the Island
- or a guy from the War of 1812 who had never seen Puget Sound.

This history is fun....

[EGfleet]

Dec 4, 2010 16:27:36 GMT -8 Low Light Mike said:

Dec 4, 2010 16:11:39 GMT -8 EGfleet said:

I'll jump in to the rescue with the answer to that...

"In 1841, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes visited the island while surveying the Northwest. Lt. Wilkes named the island after Commodore William Bainbridge, commander of the frigate U.S.S. Constitution in the War of 1812."

Ok, so now when the ferry Bainbridge was commissioned, who or what do you think the officials had in mind, when they decided to name the ferry?
- the Island
- or a guy from the War of 1812 who had never seen Puget Sound.

This history is fun....

Technically it was the island the ferry was serving.

There was actually a steamer by the same name, but when the ferry came along in 1928 the steamer was renamed to Winslow, after the city.

The Bainbridge originally served the Port Blakely-Seattle run.
The Vashon orginally served the Vashon Heights-Harper route.
The Kitsap was a multiple route boat, but was serving Kitsap county...but those three fit the rules for the game now that I think of it...Place, Person, and location.

Vashon Island was named for James Vashon, a friend of Captain Vancouver's in the Royal Navy...

Bainbridge we covered...

Kitsap was named after Kitsap County, which itself was named after Chief Kitsap. Always found that ironic as Kitsap was not at all friendly to the white settlers. Not to mention that the common belief of the tribes of the area did not speak the name of the dead...they believed it brought back the spirit of the deceased from their rest in the afterlife. While the whites considered it a tribute to Chief Sealth to name the city Seattle, he was likely properly horrified by the prospect. Kitsap was already dead by the time Kitsap County was officially renamed.
Originally the county was named Slaughter County after someone with that last name, but the negative connotation of the word led it to being rechristened Kitsap County a short time later.

[Low Light Mike]

Just to clarify for the herd of cats, that the name-game is intended to reflect what the ferry itself was named in reference to.
- This isn't a 2-degrees-of-separation game.

So if you think that it's most logical that the ferry Vashon was named for the island, then that qualifies for the island category.
- I think it's a stretch to say that the ferry Vashon was named in reference to James Vashon.

Although there is some sweet irony that a ferry like Queen of Vancouver could be seen to honour Capt. George Vancouver, but we all know that the ship was named for the city.

But hey, I'm waiting to see how tough this gets, especially for the "named for a person category", in a couple of days.

Again, there's no "x degrees of separation" for this fun game.

[Scott]

Dec 4, 2010 12:56:57 GMT -8 Scott said:

Queen of Burnaby - I'll start with my hometown.
Princess Sophia - Probably named after Princess Sophia of England (1777-1848)
Spirit of Vancouver Island - Self-explanatory

I stand corrected, and have started a bad trend it seems:) The Princess Sophia was not a car/truck ferry... I overlooked that detail.

I'll replace her with the Cy Peck. So my revised list is:

Queen of Burnaby - I'll start with my hometown.
Cy Peck - Named after British Columbian Cyrus Wesley Peck
, a recipient of the Victoria Cross and later an MLA in the Legistative Assembly.
Spirit of Vancouver Island - Self-explanatory