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MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS - Canadian Merchant Service Guild: 1940 Annual (Yearbook)

Title: Canadian Merchant Service Guild: 1940 Annual (Yearbook)
Description: British Columbia: Canadian Merchant Service Guild, 1940. First Edition. Paperback. 28 pages. Index of advertisers. Report of President, Captain Jas. W. Watt; Photo of SS. Prince Rupert; Figures in the Cut Rate Wars - in the year 1884 the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company met its last spirited opposition; Photos/illustrations of Ten different styles of Seagoing Craft of the Pacific; The H.M.S. Algerine - did duty in war and peace; Pacific Future - the impact of faster vessels, air travel and possible military developments on Pacific shipping; A Voyage to Australia; Photo of a Pacific Terminal at Vancouver; The Sea in Our Language - a glossary of jargon used in the profession; Twenty years ago; Photo of the Canadian Coast Patrol Cutter SS. Lillooet; The Jervis Bay - a ship built in England in 1921-22; Honouring Vancouver's First Ship - The Royal Mail Steamship "Empress of India"; Sparks Family and the Quartermaster - a twenty-year-old story of shipmen, a cat and a parrot; Forty Years Ago; Some Casualties - an interesting look back at ship accidents 20 years ago, and the cost of their repairs; Photo of Canada's greatest west coast floating dock at Burrard Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in North Vancouver; S.S. Plumper - Early Survey Ship; Seven Men in a Boat - Roy Widdicombe recalls what happened to survivors of the Anglo-Saxon after it was sunk by the German raider Weser southwest of the Azores; Photo of the Union Bay Coaling Berths; List of members on active military service; Obituaries; Photo of the steamer Amelia, circa 1880s; Two inch by three inch piece missing from front cover. Fore-edge openings to first two pages.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Canadian Merchant Service Guild: 1940 Annual (Yearbook) Vancouver B.c. Captain Jas. W. Watt; Photo of SS. Prince Rupert; Figures in the Cut Rate Wars - in the year 1884 the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company met its last spirited opposition; Photos/illus. Fair .

Keywords: : 1940 () B.C. Nautical

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- Book number: 839c8398