Our Senior Volunteer Contributors include:


Bill Clearihue

Bill Clearihue

He has joined the Nauticapedia Project and has contributed his records of members of the University Naval Training Division (U.N.T.D.) that he has been researching for a number of years. He made a career in the Pharmaceutical Industry until his semi–retirement in 2005. He now (2014) resides in Oakville ON. He was appointed in 2010 as Assistant Editor of the UNTD Newsletter to which he brings great story–telling and computer skill to the task as well as a keen interest in naval heritage. He also is compiling the definitive Nominal Roll for the UNTD and assembling the Digital UNTD Archive. He was appointed as a Sub–Lieutenant RCN(R) 1968. He served in HMCS Donnacona as Divisional Officer of the Communications Division 1968–1969.


Our Victoria Waterfront Correspondent:


Our Military & Naval Vessel Correspondent:


Our US Military & Naval Vessel Correspondent:


George Duddy

George Duddy

George Duddy is a retired Professional Engineer. His 40 year working career was spent on hydro electric construction and construction planning with B.C. Hydro and as a consultant. Duddy was born in Fort St John where his father managed the Hudson’s Bay Company store. His family moved to Metchosin on Vancouver Island in 1944. His interest in maritime subjects was developed in his youth while living beside and fishing in the sea and observing log transportation, naval exercises and incoming ships calling at the William Head Quarantine Station at Parry Bay. He was active for many years with the Lower Mainland Yacht Coop at White Rock B.C. where he currently resides and was Commodore in 1989–1990. He actively enjoys historical research and has written several articles that are available on Nauticapedia.


Our Fraser River Correspondent:


Loch McJannet

Loch McJannett

Loch McJannett is retired and lives with his wife Elizabeth in Vancouver along the North Arm of the Fraser River. His sales and operations focused career has taken him primarily through resource industries: mining in BC, oil & gas in Scotland, Belgium and Texas, forestry in Canada and the USA and finally clean energy projects in BC (run of river hydro, wind, solar, biomass). His retirement priority is camera outings and traveling, particularly to the Yukon and Northwest territories with a 38’ 5th wheel RV. Ocean going vessels and tugs have always been savoured since being introduced to the Halifax Nova Scotia waterfront docks as a youth and then working passage aboard a Norwegian freighter from BC to Australia. Since moving to the North Arm in March of 2016 Loch has logged 87 different tugs passing by his riverside condo.

Nauticapedia

Site News: March 16, 2024

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 91,134 vessel histories (with 15,557 images and 12,826 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters). The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,612 entries (with 4,007 images).

In 2023 the Nauticapedia celebrated the 50th Anniversary of it’s original inception in 1973 (initially it was on 3" x 5" file cards). It has developed, expanded, digitized and enlarged in those ensuing years to what it is now online. If it was printed out it would fill more than 300,000 pages!

My 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.

Also my special thanks to my volunteer content checker, John Spivey of Irvine CA USA, who has proofread thousands of Nauticapedia vessel histories and provided input to improve more than 10,000 entries. His attention to detail has been a huge unexpected bonus in improving and updating the vessel detail content.


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