Fonds 2022.029 - Capital Iron Fonds

• Cartographic material
• Technical drawing
• Textual record
• Graphic material

The fonds consists of photos, ship plans, maps, and lists and paperwork. Besides the maps, the rest of the material is related to Princess Marguerite and Princess Patricia, except for the 9 items below.

The fonds consists of:
2 series-Princess Marguerite; Cartographic
5 subseries-Princess Marguerite Manuals, Ship Plans, Reference Lists, Inspection Photos, Evacuation Raft Photos
9 items
Items: 0014-18, 0028, 0059, 0066, 0084

0014: 1 photograph : b&w ; 37.5 x 49.5 cm
Photo of 21 people on the deck but only 4 people’s faces are visible. The four are in uniform standing in front of a 6” gun behind the guardrail of the ship. There are people and a ship in the background that are blurs because they were moving at the time the photo was taken. There is a noticeable black hole in the hull of the ship and marks in the photo that transferred from the print making from the negative where it had been burned. The photo was made from a negative from the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Photographic Archive that was within the Harland & Wolff Collection.
Harland & Wolff is a British shipbuilding company who is most famous for their ocean liners, including the Titanic.

0015: 1 technical drawing : b&w mylar ; 37 x 50 cm
The technical drawing is the general arrangement of the TSS Cardena. The Cardena was built in 1923 and was broken up in 1961 by Capital Iron & Metals Co. Ltd.

0016: 1 technical drawing : 28 x 62 cm
This drawing from 1 September 1941 shows the repairs to the Williamshead Port Angeles Sub. Cable that was copied from the BC Telephone Blueprint No.-D14256. Submarine cables were laid on the seabed to carry telecommunication signals across the ocean. They were first used in the 1850s and have changed over time with developing technology.

0017: 1 map : b&w, annotations ; 61 x 49 cm
The 1948 map shows the William Head Port Angeles Cable Route that was taken from marine chart 6382. Submarine cables were laid on the seabed to carry telecommunication signals across the ocean. They were first used in the 1850s and have changed over time with developing technology.

0018: 1 booklet : 28 x 23 cm
The Diving Apparatus Manual from the John Date
John Date Diving company was the only diving company that produced diving helmets in Canada in the early 1800s onwards. The manual has a stamp from Brown, Fraser & Co., Ltd., who are the succesors to Dominion Equipment & Supply Co., Ltd for Mining, municipal and Contractors’ Machinery and Supplies.
It has 56 artist renderings that accurately depict the several types of diving related equipment that was once sold by the John Date Company. These period depictions show Helmets, Pumps, Helmet fittings, Diving dresses, Diver telephonic apparatus, Air hose and fittings, Weights and boots, Submarine electric lamps and lanterns, and other interesting items.

0028: 1 print: b&w and some colour; 42.5 x 35.5 cm
The print of a steering wheel and steering gear and part of rudder stock is a drawing adapted from A. Cambell Holms, Practical Shipbuilding (London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green & Co, 1908). On the print there is also information about a Steering Wheel from the Riversdale built by W. Hamilton & Co. at Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1894; and Steering Gear and Part of rudder stock from the ship Blairmore built by A. McMillan & Son in 1893 in Scotland. These were donated somewhere by Crown Zellerbach Corporation, and Morris Greene Industries and Capital Iron & Metals, Ltd. respectfully.

0059: 1 photograph : b&w ; 39.5 x 50 cm on card
This photo printed on a board shows a ferry in the water from above. The name is illegible because of the blur.

0066: 1 card: 15 x 23 cm
The card has a copy of the painting of “Pacific Swift” by Harry Heine on the front, with information about the artist and the ship on the back, with a blank interior. The painting was made in 1986, which is the year the ship was built, and it shows the square topsail schooner Pacific Swift at sea with a ferry in the background. The vessel was built as a working exhibit for Expo ’86 in Vancouver and was the newest addition to the SALTS fleet
The 1986 copyright for the image belongs to SALTS.

0084: 1 card: 15 x 23 cm
The card has a copy of the painting of “Swift” by Harry Heine on the front, with information about the artist and the ship on the back, with a some writing inside. The Swift depicted is a replica of the original (1778) which was built in 1938. Provided from the card: The Swift of Ipswich has voyaged successfully for many years and this rendering of her depicts many vessels of the period which first penetrated the rock-bound coves and inlets of British Columbia.
Inside is a note on a SALTS auction to someone who donated an oil lamp to the auction from John Darling on behalf of SALTS.
The 1986 copyright for the image belongs to SALTS.

• Princess Marguerite
• TEV Princess Marguerite
• Cardena
• Submarine cables
• Pacific Swift
• Swift

• Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

• Capital Iron and Metals Company Limited (Creator)
• Department of Marine and Fisheries (Subject)
• Department of Mines and Resources (Subject)
• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum (Subject)
• Harland and Wolff (Subject)
• John Date Diving Company (Subject)
• Sail and Life Training Society (SALTS) (Subject)
• Harry Heine (Subject)