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Post by EGfleet on Feb 9, 2015 12:23:16 GMT -8
Just picked up these nice little snapshots of the Kahloke taken in 1957. I particularly like the one of her backing out.   |
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Post by mrdot on Feb 9, 2015 13:02:21 GMT -8
:)another nice post of Kahloke in her Black Ball days, before BC ferries and her 'Langdale Queen days, hard to fathom that she is the ontime Asbury Park, etc! :)mrdot.
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Post by Mill Bay on Feb 14, 2015 10:17:25 GMT -8
A short glimpse of BlackBall's Kahloke in this video. - near the start Wow! even though it is brief, and rather fuzzy, one thing you can clearly see is her extremely large bow wave and the wake thrown off. I also noted a life-ring with the name Chinook. Wouldn't it already have been Chinook II since it is clearly in Canada in this movie? |
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 10, 2015 6:01:45 GMT -8
The Kahloke in her original state-- Asbury Park taken in 1910.  |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Mar 10, 2015 7:32:16 GMT -8
The Kahloke in her original state-- Asbury Park taken in 1910. Even though it's my scheduled turn to be post-less this week, I must break the rule and reply to this thread to say that this is such a lovely photo. I really like the original look of that fine ship, especially the bow area with it's covered top deck and the windows on the main deck. Gorgeous. Totally worth my breaking of posting-silence. |
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 27, 2015 9:43:38 GMT -8
Advertisement on the back of the Chinook, the on-board magazine, summer, 1953.  |
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Post by Starsteward on Mar 27, 2015 12:58:08 GMT -8
Advertisement on the back of the Chinook, the on-board magazine, summer, 1953. A fine looking ferry before they chopped her nose off. Same thing of course goes to the 'Chinook' before she suffered the same fate. 
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Post by Neil on Mar 27, 2015 13:31:16 GMT -8
Hey, wait a minute... I've never seen an actual photo of the old Kahloke looking like the vessel in that picture. Artistic license by Black Ball?
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Post by mrdot on Mar 27, 2015 13:41:24 GMT -8
:)every time I think about the Kahloke. I think of the time I was releif seaman at Swartz Bay, and was on the trip repositioned the Langdale Queen from Esquimalt back to Swartz Bay. she was a scarey boat to steer, but a remarkable conversion she was even in those late 1960's! that and the old 'Motor Princess' were still operating in those days. :)mrdot.
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Post by EGfleet on Mar 27, 2015 15:01:23 GMT -8
Hey, wait a minute... I've never seen an actual photo of the old Kahloke looking like the vessel in that picture. Artistic license by Black Ball? She only looked like that in the promotional drawings. She came out of the yard in the form we're all familiar with. |
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Post by princessofvanfan on Mar 27, 2015 21:00:15 GMT -8
Never had the chance to sail on her, regrettably. Anyone have any interior pics from her Black Ball/BCF days?
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Post by Neil on Mar 27, 2015 22:30:08 GMT -8
Hey, wait a minute... I've never seen an actual photo of the old Kahloke looking like the vessel in that picture. Artistic license by Black Ball? She only looked like that in the promotional drawings. She came out of the yard in the form we're all familiar with. Well, that was quite an exercise of artistic license. They added an entire deck... and I can't imagine that she could ever have carried 1000 passengers. This was a vessel only thirty feet longer than the Bowen Queen, and three feet less in beam.
Princessofvanfan... unfortunately, I've never seen a photo of the Kahloke/Langdale Queen's interior, on this forum or elsewhere. I only recall sailing on her once, and I really have no particular memory.
Starsteward, mrdot? Any insights as to her layout?
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Post by Starsteward on Mar 28, 2015 9:29:42 GMT -8
She only looked like that in the promotional drawings. She came out of the yard in the form we're all familiar with. Well, that was quite an exercise of artistic license. They added an entire deck... and I can't imagine that she could ever have carried 1000 passengers. This was a vessel only thirty feet longer than the Bowen Queen, and three feet less in beam.
Princessofvanfan... unfortunately, I've never seen a photo of the Kahloke/Langdale Queen's interior, on this forum or elsewhere. I only recall sailing on her once, and I really have no particular memory.
Starsteward, mrdot? Any insights as to her layout?
I 'think' I was aboard the Langdale Queen on one occasion, during the 1964 summer season. It wasn't a sailing, just dropping off a bag of company mail for the Chief Steward that had ended up on either the Queen of Sidney or the Sechelt Queen by mistake. Very hazily, I think there was a forward lounge, then lobby with stairways down to the car deck. Travelling along Prom deck there was a tiny Chief Steward's office, washrooms on both sides of the Prom deck hallway, then aft towards a toady wee coffee bar. Farther aft from the coffee bar, there May have been some sort of cafeteria which was probably a more gussy dining room in the old girl's earlier lives. I remember the whole interior of the ship being quite dark but I'm sure that newer lighting was installed a few years after I was aboard. One thing I do recall, is that the Langdale Queen, was no match in the interior design style and finish compared to the Sechelt Queen, ex-Chinook !!. In all fairness, the Langdale Queen was significantly older than the Chinook and had undergone more make-overs than many of the old-time Hollywood Actresses put together.
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Post by princessofvanfan on Mar 28, 2015 19:54:48 GMT -8
Thanks for that, Starsteward. I missed out on Langdale Queen, Suzy Q, and Sechelt Queen. Thankfully, I did P.o.V twice, but would have liked to have sailed on her when she was re-fitted for Comox-Powell River. And, thankfully, M.V. Coho is still around for us retro-ferry nerds to enjoy.
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Post by Starsteward on Mar 28, 2015 22:57:15 GMT -8
Thanks for that, Starsteward. I missed out on Langdale Queen, Suzy Q, and Sechelt Queen. Thankfully, I did P.o.V twice, but would have liked to have sailed on her when she was re-fitted for Comox-Powell River. And, thankfully, M.V. Coho is still around for us retro-ferry nerds to enjoy. Yeas, we sure had some clunky classics running around in the 60's and 70's. The Suzie Q wasn't glamorous either. Of the three old girls, I think the beauty and glamour contest would have finished: Sechelt Queen, best make-up and hair, the Suzie Q, the first runner up, and proving that big and heavy, strong and slow Do have a place in beauty pageant. Sadly the Langdale Queen would remain sister ugly for the rest of her days, short, slow and very old had her doomed from the start. The Princess of Vancouver may have begun her career as a prim and proper C.P. R. steamship but at heart she had a blue collar identity. Her interior trappings were middle class at best, featuring her rowdy bar and pub, a decent cafeteria/dining room, coffee shop melee of eating joints. Her lower car deck was a hazard to navigate on two feet as grease or oil splotches jettisoned from rail cars and transport trucks could often and easily send ones' foot into a train track gutter. The amenity that allowed her to retain some of her 'steamship' glory days were her staterooms. Dark wood paneling prevailed along with fine bedding linens and a venerable C.P.R. crested wool blanket. Staterooms came complete with solid iron steam registers, the force and direction of the cold air blast that masqueraded for air conditioning could be controlled by turning the round porcelain wall nozzle in almost any direction, but I confess I could never get the damned thing to do what I wanted. A requested wake-up call from the purser's office, delivered by an old heavy black, no-dial phone was about as electronic as things got in those days but the wake-up experience seemed cool at the time. Throughout this Princess's service history, her dark panelled stateroom walls must have been privy to countless secrets, witnessed,but untold. That is, unless one could get those silly porcelain air nozzles to spill the beans.
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Post by gnaz on May 27, 2015 9:41:25 GMT -8
Sunshine Coast Living website. Photo Credit Jorgen Nielsen 1963 Very cool view, taken from the top deck of the Langdale Queen   |
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Post by dave2 on Jun 19, 2016 16:21:41 GMT -8
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Post by trainguru on Mar 21, 2018 2:33:31 GMT -8
Could anybody Explain why the Kahloke looked SO Damn Different between the Rendering and the Final Product? It's confused me for Years (Thought the Rendering was Gorgeous.)! And why did they keep using it on promotional material, afterwords? Also, what was her and the Chinook's respective Car Deck Height? Wayback Machine - Kahloke
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Post by trainguru on Mar 29, 2019 15:35:50 GMT -8
Question: What was the Kahloke's "exact" Car Deck Clearance? I've gotten conflicting reads on it.
Also, if anybody wants to take a stab at my previous question, I'd be most grateful.
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Post by dave2 on Nov 1, 2021 20:37:51 GMT -8
 Sign at Horseshoe Bay 1954. A screen grab from this video, which has some wonderful footage of the M.V. Kahloke. |
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Post by coastal memories on Jun 5, 2022 13:02:05 GMT -8
Photo of Kahloke displayed at Nanaimo Museum: Black Ball schedule: - The June 27th date on this means that this is the 1953 inaugral schedule advertisement. (read EG Fleet's post, a few before this post) - MV Chinook II isn't listed, because she's still working in Victoria, I presume.  Sharper version of the Vancouver Sun June 26 1953 Advertisement  New Fast Ferry Service Starts June 27 by Splashcat, on Flickr June 24 1953: Luxury. All Steel. Room for 100 cars, and of course, RAdio Detection And Ranging Equipment  "Luxury" MV Kaloke by Splashcat, on Flickr June 27 1953..  Kahloke_june_27_1953 by Splashcat, on Flickr The day travel to Vancouver Island changed forever warrents only a photo and caption. On page 51. The sad thing is "Fast Ferry" took on a whole new meaning decades later. |
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Post by Neil on Apr 22, 2023 13:15:38 GMT -8
Lot of these old clips seem to be surfacing...
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