Retired BC Ferries ships
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- MV George S. Pearson (built in 1925 as MV Wollochet), later known as MV Fox Island.Retired in 1966.
1960s
- MV Quillayute (built in 1927)
- MV Cy PeckIsland Princess (steamboat)The steamboat Daily operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years, Daily was renamed Island Princess and later Cy Peck.-Construction:...
(built in 1913 as SS Daily, later known as Island PrincessIsland Princess (steamboat)The steamboat Daily operated in the early 1900s as part of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. In later years, Daily was renamed Island Princess and later Cy Peck.-Construction:...
then even later as MV Cy Peck)
- MV Jervis Queen (built in 1928 as MV Bainbridge)
- SS Smokwa (built in 1946 as SS Scotian)
1970s
- Langdale Queen (built in 1903 by William Cramp and SonsWilliam Cramp and Sonsthumb | upright | 1899 advertisement for William Cramp & Sons William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company of Philadelphia was founded in 1825 by William Cramp, and was the preeminent U.S. iron shipbuilder in the 19th century. The American Ship & Commerce Corporation bought the yard in 1919 but closed...
of Philadelphia as the coastal steamer SS Asbury ParkSS Asbury ParkAsbury Park was a high-speed coastal steamer built in Philadelphia, PA, and intended to transport well-to-do persons from New York to summer homes on the New Jersey shore. This vessel was sold to West Coast interests in 1918, and later converted to an automobile ferry, serving on various routes...
; purchased by the Monticello Steamship Company and moved to San Francisco BaySan Francisco BaySan Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...
in 1918, where she was refitted and rebuilt as the car ferry SS City of Sacramento; transferred to Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries in 1925 and enlarged; purchased by Puget Sound Navigation CompanyPuget Sound Navigation CompanyThe Puget Sound Navigation Company was founded by Joshua Green in 1913. It operated a fleet of steamboats and ferries on Puget Sound in Washington and the Georgia Strait in British Columbia...
(PSNC) in 1941 and moved to the Seattle-Bremerton route in Puget SoundPuget SoundPuget Sound is a sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and one minor connection to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean — Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and...
; transferred to PSNC's Canadian affiliate, Black Ball FerriesBlack Ball LineBlack Ball Line or Blackball Line can refer to:* Black Ball Line , a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817....
, in 1952 and refitted and rebuilt as MV Kahloke to operate on the Horseshoe BayHorseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, British ColumbiaHorseshoe Bay is a West Vancouver community of about 1,000 permanent residents. Situated right on the western tip of West Vancouver, at the entrance to Howe Sound, the village marks the western end of Highway 1 on the British Columbia mainland....
-NanaimoNanaimo, British ColumbiaNanaimo is a city on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It has been dubbed the "Bathtub Racing Capital of the World" and "Harbour City". Nanaimo is also sometimes referred to as the "Hub City" because of its central location on Vancouver Island and due to the layout of the downtown...
route across the Strait of GeorgiaStrait of GeorgiaThe Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait is a strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is approximately long and varies in width from...
; purchased by BC FerriesBC FerriesBritish Columbia Ferry Services Inc. or BC Ferries is a de facto Crown Corporation that provides all major passenger and vehicle ferry services for coastal and island communities in the Canadian province of British Columbia...
in 1961; renamed MV Langdale Queen and moved to the Horseshoe BayHorseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, British ColumbiaHorseshoe Bay is a West Vancouver community of about 1,000 permanent residents. Situated right on the western tip of West Vancouver, at the entrance to Howe Sound, the village marks the western end of Highway 1 on the British Columbia mainland....
-LangdaleLangdale, British ColumbiaLangdale is a small community on the Sunshine Coast of southern British Columbia. It is set in a verdant environment characteristic of many small BC communities. Its main feature is the BC Ferries terminal that links the Sunshine Coast to Vancouver via Horseshoe Bay, with connecting foot-passenger...
route in 1964; retired in 1976; hull intermittently used as a barge in the 1980s; scrapped in 2005)
- MV Sechelt Queen (built by Todd ShipyardsTodd ShipyardsTodd Shipyards was an American soccer club based in Brooklyn, New York that was an inaugural member of the American Soccer League. The team was formed when the Todd Shipyard company decided to merge the Brooklyn Robins Dry Dock with Tebo Yacht Basin F.C....
(Seattle) in 1947 as MV Chinook, refitted and rebuilt in 1954 as MV Chinook II)
- MV Sunshine Coast QueenVacationland FerryThe Vacationland was an automobile ferry that operated in Michigan's Straits of Mackinac between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace.Vacationland was built in 1952 by Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan for the State of Michigan's Department of Highways at a cost of $4,745,000. She was...
(built in 1951 as MV Vacationland; purchased as MV Père Nouvel in 1966)
- MV Dogwood Princess
1980s
- MV Pender Queen (built by Yarrows Shipyards of Esquimalt in 1923 as MV Motor Princess) Retired in 1980
- MV Princess of VancouverMV Princess of Vancouver (1955)MV Princess of Vancouver was a passenger vessel in the Pacific coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway .The ship was part of the CPR "Princess fleet," which was composed of ships having names which began with the title "Princess"....
(built in 1955 in GlasgowGlasgowGlasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, for the Canadian Pacific Railway)
1990s
- MV Queen of the IslandsQueen of the IslandsM/V Queen of the Islands was a RORO ferry operated by BC Ferries between 1963 and 1991. Although the passenger areas provided for an enjoyable travel experience for the general public, she was much maligned by the crews that worked on her, and the Queen of the Islands quickly garnered a reputation...
(built by Burrard Dry DockBurrard Dry DockBurrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd...
in 1963)
- MV Salt Spring Queen (built by Yarrows Shipyards of Esquimalt in 1949 as MV Delta Princess)
- MV Vesuvius Queen (built by Victoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships...
in 1951 as MV Lloyd Jones, sold to R & G Importadora & Exportadora of the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
in 1998)
2000s
- MV Queen of SidneySidney class ferryThe Sidney Class consists of the original two ferries built for the British Columbia Ferry Corporation in 1960. The design for the ships was based on the MV Coho ferry with changes made to accommodate loading of vehicles through the bow of the vessel....
(built by Victoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships...
in 1960 as MV Sidney)
- MV Queen of Victoria (built by Victoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships...
in 1962 as MV City of Victoria, sold to R & G Importadora & Exportadora of the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
in 2001)
- MV Albert J. Savoie Was a sister ship to the Nicola, Garibaldi 2 and Nimpkish. Retired in 2002.
- MV Queen of Esquimalt (built by Victoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships...
in 1963, sold to a Chinese operator in 2008)
- MV Queen of the NorthM/V Queen of the NorthM/V Queen of the North was a RORO ferry built by AG Weser of Germany and operated by BC Ferries, which ran along a scenic 18-hour route along the British Columbia Coast of Canada between Port Hardy and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, a route also known as the Inside Passage. On March 22, 2006,...
(built in 1969 as MV Stena Danica; renamed MV Queen of Surrey in 1973; renamed MV Queen of the North in 1976; sank in Wright SoundWright SoundWright Sound is a waterway on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Wright Sound is south of Prince Rupert and lies at the southern opening of Grenville Channel and between Gil, Gribbell and Pitt Islands...
on March 22, 2006)
- FastCat Series (three high-speed catamarans built by a subsidiary of BC Ferries, the first two of which were in service in 1999 and 2000)
- MV PacifiCat Explorer (built in 1998; sold to Washington Marine GroupWashington Marine GroupSeaspan Marine Corporation provides marine-related services to the Pacific Northwest. Within the Group are three shipyards, an intermodal ferry business, and a tug and barge transportation company that serves both domestic and international markets. Seaspan Marine Corporation is part of the...
in 2003) - MV PacifiCat Discovery (built in 1999; sold to Washington Marine Group in 2003)
- MV PacifiCat Voyager (built in 2000; sold to Washington Marine Group in 2003)
- MV PacifiCat Explorer (built in 1998; sold to Washington Marine Group
- MV Dogwood Princess II
- MV Albert J. Savoie
- Queen of Esquimalt
- MV Queen of TsawwassenSidney class ferryThe Sidney Class consists of the original two ferries built for the British Columbia Ferry Corporation in 1960. The design for the ships was based on the MV Coho ferry with changes made to accommodate loading of vehicles through the bow of the vessel....
(built by Burrard Dry DockBurrard Dry DockBurrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd...
in 1960 as MV Tsawwassen)
- V class ferryV class ferryThe V Class Ferries, also known as Victoria Class, includes BC Ferries ships built between 1962 and 1963. These vessels were the backbone of service on the Tsawwassen – Swartz Bay route prior to the arrival of the in 1993...
s- MV Queen of Vancouver (built by Burrard Dry DockBurrard Dry DockBurrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia . Together with the neighboring North Van Ship Repair yard and the Yarrows Ltd...
in 1962 as MV City of Vancouver) - MV Queen of Saanich (built by Victoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships...
in 1963)
- MV Queen of Vancouver (built by Burrard Dry Dock
- MV Queen of Prince RupertMV Queen of Prince RupertM/V Queen of Prince Rupert was a RORO ferry operated by BC Ferries that provided the main surface transport link between the Queen Charlotte Islands and mainland British Columbia, connecting Skidegate with Prince Rupert across the Hecate Strait...
was the last BC Ferry built at VMDVictoria Machinery DepotVictoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.This was a historic metalworks and shipyard in Victoria, Canada. From the late 1850s on, with the Fraser Canyon and Cariboo Gold Rushes British Columbia was dependent upon Californian supplies and ships...
.
Planned to be Retired
The Queen of ChilliwackQueen of Chilliwack
The Queen of Chilliwack is a ferry owned by BC Ferries, built in Norway in 1978, then known as the Bastø I. The ferry route she was assigned to was from Moss, Norway to Horten, about 45 km south of the capital, Oslo....
is planned to be retired sometime in the next few years, to be replaced by the Northern Discovery. BC Ferries has not yet released any plans on how large the new ship will be, or if it will be built or bought second-hand.
Several of the K class ferry
K class ferry
The "K-Class" ferries are a group of similarly designed ferries operated by both BC Ferries and TransLink in British Columbia, Canada....
s that had served as Albion ferries
Albion Ferry
The Albion Ferry, also known as the Fort Langley Ferry, was a free passenger and vehicle ferry service that was sailing across the Fraser River from June 7, 1957 to July 31, 2009...
are retired and for sale after the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge
Golden Ears Bridge
The Golden Ears Bridge is a six-lane extradosed bridge in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. It spans the Fraser River, connecting Langley on the south side with Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge on the north side. The All Electronic Toll bridge, owned by TransLink, has a clearance of , and a total...
in 2009.