The Vancouver Maritime Museum has a collection of more than 170,000 objects including 35,000 artifacts, 20,000 books, 262 original paintings/artwork and 114,000 photographs This online collection gives you access to just a few of our hidden and not so hidden treasures.

 

Category Index > Category: Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks
"Wreck of BEAVER" by Will Ferris
BEAVER went ashore at Prospect Point, near the First Narrows of Burrard Inle...
Bearing from BEAVER's Engine
This bronze bearing from BEAVER's engines (manufactured by the British firm ...
Beaver's Port Paddlewheel Shaft
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Bell from PRINCESS SOPHIA
Fixed firmly to the mast, the bell of the ill-fated Canadian Pacific Railway...
Boiler of the Steamer Boiler
Displayed outside the Vancouver Maritime Museum, this is the last (of seven)...
Cork from TITANIC's Collapsible Lifeboat "A"
One of the lifeboats was "Collapsible A," one of four wood, cork and canvas ...
Fragment from Wreck of PACIFIC with notation by S P Moody
The loss of the steamship PACIFIC, somewhere off Cape Flattery on November 4...
Latch from Wreck of CHEHALIS
On July 21, 1906, Vancouver witnessed its worst shipwreck when the CPR's PRI...
Lusitania "Medal"
Among the ranks of the world's great maritime disasters, certain names stand...
Painting of Wreck of SS BEAVER
This image of the wreck is painted on a piece of wood salvaged from the wrec...
Sandstone Column from the Wreck of the Barque ZEPHYR
The 38-ton column was quarried around 1870 on Newcastle Island, Nanaimo Harb...
TITANIC wood fragments
The best known maritime disaster of the 20th century, the sinking of the Whi...
Union Steamship COWICHAN
A rare view of the Union Steamship COWICHAN. Built in 1908 by the Ailsa Shi...
Valve from wreck of BEAVER
This brass gate valve, from the original machinery of the steamer BEAVER, wa...