Nauticapedia Project

Nauticapeda 2025 Year End
Total Vessel Names Represented: 98,475
Unlike library stacks or shelves of artifacts the database holdings are not transparent, so I have compiled some statistics to give a glimpse of the rich diversity of records held in the Nauticapedia.
Total Shipwrecks and Disasters Recorded: 17,655 records
Total Images on site: 18,920 from 1,297 different donor sources
Full-rigged Ships – 550 records
Barks – 990 records
Barkentines - 220 records
Brigs - 330 records
Brigantines – 165 records
Schooners – 3,740 records
Tugs – 10,950 records
Fishboats – 23,815 records
Yachts – 21,340 records
Passenger Vessels – 4,345 records
Work Boats – 3,905 records

Vessel database query Try typing in a name or keyword such as - Princess, or Princess Maquinna (the more you type in the more narrow the search results will be) - and follow one of the links for details. (Try different spellings for greater success.)

https://nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/dbsubmit_Vessel.php

Nauticapeda 2025 Year End

Total Vessel Names Represented: 98,475

Unlike library stacks or shelves of artifacts the database holdings are not transparent, so I have compiled some statistics to give a glimpse of the rich diversity of records held in the Nauticapedia.

Total Shipwrecks and Disasters Recorded: 17,655 records

Total Images on site: 18,920 from 1,297 different donor sources

Full-rigged Ships – 550 records
Barks – 990 records
Barkentines - 220 records
Brigs - 330 records
Brigantines – 165 records
Schooners – 3,740 records
Tugs – 10,950 records
Fishboats – 23,815 records
Yachts – 21,340 records
Passenger Vessels – 4,345 records
Work Boats – 3,905 records

Vessel database query Try typing in a name or keyword such as - Princess, or Princess Maquinna (the more you type in the more narrow the search results will be) - and follow one of the links for details. (Try different spellings for greater success.)

Introduction to the Nominal List of Members of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve

There is no publicly available nominal list of the personnel who served in the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR). This is a ’work in progress‘ that is continuously being updated. It currently contains more than 7,300 names and it is hoped that eventually it will be more or less complete.

Introduction to the Nominal List of Members of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve There is no publicly available nominal list of the personnel who served in the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve (RNCVR). This is a ’work in progress‘ that is continuously being updated. It currently contains more than 7,300 names and it is hoped that eventually it will be more or less comp...

Southpaw X
Nautical photographer Ray Warren captured a great photo of a new vessel on the coast - the Southpaw X

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Confusing Ship Names
There must be a story behind the misnaming of the Sansum Point! The builder seems to have painted on Samsum Point - but that's not the official name. I have found many similar cases where the owner gave their vessel a long name which was later found to be cumbersome - or expensive to have painted on the vessel. Sometimes they make unofficial name changes which don't correspond to the official record. It can make for confusion in the historical record! See

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Vessels Built by Harris Built Products Ltd.
A lesser known builder located in Lantzville, Harris Built Products created a line of small boom tugs. Capturing these more obscure stories has always been a goal of The Nauticapedia. They are just as interesting - and sometimes more so than the big companies. See

Vessels Built by Harris Built Products Ltd. Roberta Eisler recalls "Harris Built Products Ltd. was founded in 1965 in Lantzville, BC by my Dad, Sheldon J. Harris. The plant was located in the Metromart Industrial Village (8 miles north of Nanaimo on Island Highway) at Lantzville BC. He had the company until he retired in 2007. He started out....

Freshwater Fleet in Manitoba
The Nauticapedia covers the vessels of western Canada in detail - and I received input from a reader from Manitoba that reminds us that there is also a significant freshwater fleet in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Johnny Saunders sent me images of the cra/passenger ferry Joe Keeper at the York Factory First Nation. See

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