MAPLE LEAF Tall Ship
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 2:03 am
The MAPLE LEAF was designed and built in 1904 by William Watts as a wooden yacht at the Vancouver Shipyard in Coal Harbour for the lumber baron Alexander McLaren.
Displacement 81 tons, length 28m, length on deck 23m, length on waterline 21m.
She was a very expensive yacht; her ribs were made of coastal yellow cedar wood, the planking, decks and beams of coastal Douglas fir wood.
She was the first ship North of San Francisco to have electric light, and one of the first ships on the Pacific coast to have an external lead keel.
Carried a gaff rigged fore sail, a Marconi main sail, a jib, a staysail and a square fisherman’s staysail.
She was sailing for the Royal Vancouver yacht club with sail no 1, and she was the first vessel in an open race which fly the colours of the club.
During World War I her lead keel and brass were stripped for the war effort, and she was converted in a halibut fishing vessel at that time she carried the names first CONSTANCE B then later PARMAONSTANCE B and PARMA for the well known Canadian fishing companies Gosse & Millerd and Canadian Fishing Company.
1938 Was she bought by Harold Helland and in 1943 he rebuilt the ship completely at the CN Dry-Dock in Prince Rupert when building of new ships was prohibited due to the Second World War.
Until the mid-1970s was she used by him as a halibut fishing vessel in the Bering Sea. He took very good care of her and kept her in pristine condition.
1978 When Helland got with retirement the Canadian Government purchased her as part of the halibut license buy-back program.
1980 Was she bought by Brian Falconer and Susan Tweedie and after 6½ year restoring she reappeared again under the name MAPLE LEAF.
From 1986 was she then operated by Brian and partner Erin Nyhan in the Maple Leaf Adventures for sail training and cultural voyages in the remotest areas of the BC and Alaska coasts.
2001 The MAPLE LEAF was transferred to the ownership of Capt. Kevin Smith, which continues to operate these programs.
2002 She was chosen as the lead ship in the Parade of Sail at the Tall Ships Festival in Richmond, BC.
2014 In service.
Central African Republic 2013 300F sg?, scott? (on MS is depict the Indonesian KRI DEWARUTJI, wrongly spelled on the sheet)
Source: http://www.mapleleafadventures.com/elem ... ls-web.pdf
Displacement 81 tons, length 28m, length on deck 23m, length on waterline 21m.
She was a very expensive yacht; her ribs were made of coastal yellow cedar wood, the planking, decks and beams of coastal Douglas fir wood.
She was the first ship North of San Francisco to have electric light, and one of the first ships on the Pacific coast to have an external lead keel.
Carried a gaff rigged fore sail, a Marconi main sail, a jib, a staysail and a square fisherman’s staysail.
She was sailing for the Royal Vancouver yacht club with sail no 1, and she was the first vessel in an open race which fly the colours of the club.
During World War I her lead keel and brass were stripped for the war effort, and she was converted in a halibut fishing vessel at that time she carried the names first CONSTANCE B then later PARMAONSTANCE B and PARMA for the well known Canadian fishing companies Gosse & Millerd and Canadian Fishing Company.
1938 Was she bought by Harold Helland and in 1943 he rebuilt the ship completely at the CN Dry-Dock in Prince Rupert when building of new ships was prohibited due to the Second World War.
Until the mid-1970s was she used by him as a halibut fishing vessel in the Bering Sea. He took very good care of her and kept her in pristine condition.
1978 When Helland got with retirement the Canadian Government purchased her as part of the halibut license buy-back program.
1980 Was she bought by Brian Falconer and Susan Tweedie and after 6½ year restoring she reappeared again under the name MAPLE LEAF.
From 1986 was she then operated by Brian and partner Erin Nyhan in the Maple Leaf Adventures for sail training and cultural voyages in the remotest areas of the BC and Alaska coasts.
2001 The MAPLE LEAF was transferred to the ownership of Capt. Kevin Smith, which continues to operate these programs.
2002 She was chosen as the lead ship in the Parade of Sail at the Tall Ships Festival in Richmond, BC.
2014 In service.
Central African Republic 2013 300F sg?, scott? (on MS is depict the Indonesian KRI DEWARUTJI, wrongly spelled on the sheet)
Source: http://www.mapleleafadventures.com/elem ... ls-web.pdf