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British Columbia Coast Pilot Boats
compiled by Captain Hill Wilson 2017
Pilots need to be transported to and from the vessels that they are piloting on the coast. Specialized vessels were either chartered or purchased to perform these tasks. This is a list of the vessels known to have been in service as pilot boats.
- B.C. Pilot No. 1 – #153378
- B.C. Pilot No. 2 – #150904
- B.C. Pilot No. 3 – #150901
- B.C. Pilot No. 4 – #133848
- Canada Pilot No. 20 – #153378
- Canada Pilot No. 22 – #157111
- Canada Pilot No. 10 – #158798
- Canadian Pilot No. 1 – #153378
- Carolena – #061309
- G.G.J. – #133848
- Claymore – (Un–registered)
- Colby – #116404
- D.W. Gordon – #100638
- Dawendenna – #100636
- Fraser Pilot – #158793
- Fraser Pilot No. 1 – #158798
- Hellen – #072672
- Juanita – (Un–registered)
- Keturah – (Un–registered)
- Mary Taylor – #083457
- M.E. Smith – #122389
- Pacific Navigator – #832252
- Pacific Pathfinder – #822068
- Pacific Pilot One – #331886
- Pacific Pilot Two – #345685
- Pacific Pilot Three – #190343
- Pacific Pilot Four – #347169
- Pacific Pilot Five – #158798
- Pacific Pilot Six – #802772
- Pacific Scout – #832934
- Pilot – #116439
- Pilot Boat No. 2 – #190343
- Pilot Boat No. 7 – #157111
- Pilot Boat No. 10 – #158798
- Pilot Station No. 1 – #150904
- Tymac Pilot Six – #802772
- Vivanna – #151132
- W.A.G. Young – (Un–registered)
- Winifred – #077972
References:
Author’s Note: This is a partial list (work in progress).
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.
To quote from this article please cite:
Wilson, Captain Hill (2017) British Columbia Coast Pilot Boats. Nauticapedia.ca 2017. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Fleets_Pilot_Boats.php
Site News: February 12, 2025
ANOTHER MILESTONE REACHED
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 95,146 vessel histories (with 16,409 images and 14,064 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 4000 images).
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.
Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database.