- Victoria Machinery Depot
Victoria Machinery Depot Ltd. was a ship builder located in
Victoria, British Columbia .Founded as Albion Ironworks in 1863, it changed the name to VMD in the 1880s.
The yards were one of several contractors to the
Royal Canadian Navy .The shipyard built ferries and naval ships, but it has since ceased operations.
hips Built
;Warships
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** warship|HMCS|Terra Nova|DDE 259*
** warship|HMCS|Saskatchewan|DDE 262;Ferries
Note: Ships without hull numbers were built for another company before BC Ferries.
* Hull Unknown MV "Vesuvius Queen" - 1951 Built as the MV Lloyd Jones.
* Hull 79 "MV Mill Bay- 1956
* Hull 85 MV "Queen Of Sidney" - 1960 The first ferry to be built
* Hull 94 MV "Queen Of Victoria" - 1962
* Hull 99 MV "Queen Of Saanich" - 1962
* Hull 100 MV "Queen Of Esquimalt" - 1963
* Hull 104 MV "Queen Of Nanaimo" - 1963
* Hull 105 MV "Queen Of New Westminster" - 1964
* Hull Unknown MV "Tenaka" - 1964 Built for the Ministry of Transportation
* Hull 125 MV "Queen Of Burnaby" - 1965
* Hull 129 MV "Powell River Queen" - 1965
* Hull 130 MV "Mayne Queen" - 1965
* Hull 131 MV "Bowen Queeen" - 1965
* Hull 124 MV Queen of Prince Rupert" - 1966
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