This page is to document BC seine boats including some historic boats. I have given a bit of info on each one but please do add your comments with more stories of builders, owners or crew of each boat. For BC seiners that I have missed please sent pictures to me that you have the rights for or that you have taken. They will go on a separate page. It would be nice to get a pic of each boat. Please credit the site and Alan Haig-Brown if you want to use any.
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- Paula May: Now in Blaine WA, taken off the Canadian register in 2003
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- Paulina II: Canadian Registry closed January 2012.
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- Pender Isle: Built 1981 by John Manly Shipyard, owned by Jim Pattison.
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- Princess Colleen built by Frostad 1975, owner TAA-WA Fish Company Ltd.
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- Progressor: Moored here in Lund for the krill fishery
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- Progressor built 1973 by Al Renke’s Shore Boats, probably one of his first seiners
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- Prosperity: Mcilwain-designed, Shore Built, for the late Byron Wright.
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- Quashala: built Mercers (Star) Shipyard 1944, New Westminster
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- Queens Reach: built Allied 1980, owner Legate Enterprises
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- Rebel Isle former BC seine boat sold foreign 2010, now in Warrenton OR
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- Renown: built 1957 by A.C. Benson, Coal Harbour, Vancouver
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- Royal Canadian: built 1968 for Radil. Recently sold so now owned one share by Radil and 63 shares by Pattison.
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- Royal City: Built 1963 by Star Shipyard (Mercer’s) Ltd
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- Royal City 2
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- Royal Pride built on Fraser North Arm in 1988 by Rivtow Straits
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- Ryuo II: Built 1929 by Bidwell Boatworks, Vancouver, BC, photo in Comox Harbour
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- Santa Cruz: in Johnstone Straits with Capt. Mark Assu
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- Salish Sea: Now in Washington State ex Canadian Ocean Reaper.
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- Semidi built 1977 by John Manly Shipyard, owned 2013 by Ocean Fisheries
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- Sandy Ann built by Benson Bros. Shipyard in Vancouver in 1968.
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- Savage Eagle: built John Manly 1978, owner 2010 J. S. McMillan Fisheries and Atchison Fishign Ltd.
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- Sea Master built Tri Star Industries (Frostad) Port Hammond BC 1977
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- Sea Rake was built in 1952 at Indian Point Nova Scotia by Clarence R. Heisler. I recall seeing the boat rigged for seineing in the 1990s.
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- Sea Biscuit: Built 1928 by Y. Nakade in Steveston and died on the beach in Alert Bay in 2005
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- Seiners Cape Mark, W No.9, Eastland, Blue Pacific No. 1, Kitlup at the Canfisco Scow
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- Shirley Lore: Caulking at Shelter Island, BC
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- Silver Dawn 1: Built Shore Boat Builders 1987, no longer on Canadian registry 2012.
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- Silver Dawn I built 1987 by Shore Boats, Richmond, now gone to the US?
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- Silver Dolphin: Built 1965 by Benson Bros. Shipbuilding, Vancouver. This pic Campbell River Aug. 2009
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- Silver Isle I Silver Isle I, Canadian registry closed April 11, 2012 now in US
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- Silver Totem was built by Frostad in 1972
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- Sleep-Robber: Built 1958 at Star Shipyard for Fred Kohse. For full story see my book Still Fishin’ available from Amazon etc.
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- Snowfall: Built 1937 by Boeing Aircraft of Canada, at Vancouver, BC
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- Snow Prince: Canfisco yacht coversion built Boeing Aircraft, Vanvouer 1937
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- Spirit Isle: Built by “Fergie” Ferguson, also built Vampys, 1963 See my book Fishing For a Living for Fergy’s story.
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- Splendour: Built 1940 by Tarabochia for Martinolich family. full story in Fishing for a Living
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- St. Joseph, long time BC seiner. Sold US and lost in 2012
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- St. Nicholas: Built 1945 by Harbour Boatyards. The New York looks American but I can’t find story unless it is one built in Coos Bay in 1915.
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- Star Shadow looking like a Shore-built Candian seiner converted for Alaska. Not on Canadia or US register.
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- Styrinan Knight: On sea trials in Indian Arm off Burrard Inlet prior to delivery in 1990s Now under new name in US,
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- Summer Hawk, built Shore in 1988 owned Jim Pattison
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- Sun Fisher: Built 1979 by K. Frostad Boat Building, Richmond
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- Supreme No. 1: At Steveston 2010 packing sockeye built 1917 at Tofino by Tofino Machine Ship, owned by Robin Marc Perrion, victoria
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- Susan Laverne: Daniel Billy of Cape Mudge is owner. built for him by Cyril Thames 1975
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- Tassaka: 1989 Shore built seiner on Fraser River
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- Tanu Warrior 1952, Candian registry says built by Nelson Brothers but looks like one of those Haida-built boats funded by Nelsons and later seized by them.
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- Tara Lynn built 1988 by Alu-Craft Products Ltd. in Surrey, BC
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- Gee Tee II yacht conversion by Ed Wahl May 1999, no longer on Canadian register.
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- Tenacious: I walked around Garry Pt. with Don Pepper and we reminised about the old days and puzzled about the present and had no ideas about the future.
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- Tenacious: Photo courtesy of Fred Anhorn who sys, “A great name for fishing boat.” Built 1980 by Allied
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- The Ocean Destiny, owned by Jim Pattison Enterprises Ltd., and the Taaska, moored on the Delta waterfront, were built by Al Renke’s Shore Boat Builders in 1989.
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- Tzoonie River: Billy Griffiths independent seiner at his place in Egmont
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- Vampy II, pic in 2001, suspended from Can registry 2008
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- VanIsle built 1980 by John Manly Ltd. Vancouver, both boats owned by Jim Pattison in 2012
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- Velma C built 1928 by Menchions in Coal Harbour, Vancouver, BC
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- Venturous: Wahl’s W.B. Boat building, delta, 1979
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- The Vicious Fisher (ex Lorenda Lynn) was a long time Canadian boat built in Delta in 1980. Canadian registry closed in Sept. 2009
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- Viking Cavalier: Built Allied Shipyards, North Vancouver 1978
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- Viking Leader came off the Canadian registry 2013-11-12
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- W10: Built at Menchions 1926
