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Vessels Owned by the MacFarlane Family
compiled by John M. MacFarlane 2012
One writer has called this the "Shamrock Fleet". The funnels of the MacFarlane brothers’s vessels were painted black and decorated with a white band on which was appended a green shamrock. The funnel of the Daring was left entirely black. The MacFarlane brothers were Captain Fred MacFarlane, Arthur MacFarlane (Chief Engineer), and Captain George A. MacFarlane.
Vessels Owned by the MacFarlane Brothers
- Victory – Number
- Wabash – #126247
- Wabash No. 1 – #130610
- Beatrice (on charter) – #100194
- Restless (on charter) – #117159
- J.W.P. – #150670
- Bonila (I) – #138681
- Doreen M. – #153326
- Chief Skugaid (on charter) – #133736
- Ispaco No.2 (on charter) – #156445
- M.C.M. – #134119
Vessels Owned by Francis Arthur MacFarlane
- Topaz – #122162
Vessels Owned by Douglas MacFarlane
- Demac – #314007
- Demac 2 – #323866
- Sooke Prince – #348630
Vessels Owned by Robert Frayne
- Ellwood – #121989
- Gabriola San Pan – #nk
Note to Reader: Vessel names containing Roman numerals in parentheses (e.g. Floater (II)) indicates more than one vessel in the database with the same name. The numerals in parentheses are NOT part of the vessel name but are used to distinguish one vessel from another in the database.
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MacFarlane, John M. (2012) Vessels Owned by the MacFarlane Brothers Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Fleets_MacFarlane_Bros.php
Site News: January 14, 2025
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,957 vessel histories (with 16,337 images and 13,935 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
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My thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.
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Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database.