The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea, Part III
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part III Dorothy Cross, David Zink Yi, Fiona Bowie, Sonia Hedstrand, Troy Morgan, Terry Kerby, Zarh Pritchard, The Laboratory of Marine Obscuriosity and Spectaculars March 14 to April 22, 2012 Opening Tuesday March 13 at 7:30pm The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present The Voyage, or … Continue reading
Maritime Bibliography, Part II
Our recommended ocean themed reads (an ongoing list): –The Novel and The Sea, Margaret Cohen, 2010 –Oceonomania, Mark Dion, 2011 -Ships I Have Met, Told by Trusty the Tug, G.G. Jackson, 1960 -The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, 2000 –“The Enemy … Continue reading
The Wreck of the S.S. Princess Sophia
SS Princess Sophia Sunk October 25, 1918 Vanderbilt Reef 353 people dead At 2:10 am on October 24, 1918 the Canadian Pacific steamship Princess Sophia struck the Vanderbilt Reef in the Lynn Canal of the Inside Passage. The ship was traveling from Skagway to Vancouver and on to Seattle with 353 passengers and crew on … Continue reading
The Wreck of the S.S. Valencia
SS Valencia January 22, 1906 Near Pachena Point 117 people dead A thick fog plagued the passage of the steamer Valencia on its journey from San Francisco to Victoria in January 1906. Captain O.M. Johnson was forced to navigate using a system of soundings and dead reckoning from Cape Mendocino northwards. Through miscalculation Johnson passed … Continue reading
The Wreck of the S.S. Pacific – Sewell Moody
SS Pacific November 4, 1875 Off Cape Flattery 277 people dead Sailing from Victoria to San Francisco, the sidewheel steamer Pacific collided with the much larger Orpheus in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off Cape Flattery on the evening of November 4, 1875. The Pacific was in poor condition even prior to the accident, … Continue reading
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II – The Archives
S.S. Pacific (above) Courtesy of the Vancouver Maritime Museum Sewell Moody (below) (seated centre) Courtesy of the City of Vancouver Archives An incomplete and randomly organized list of the shipwrecks of coastal British Columbia.
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II – Artworks
The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II Karl Haendel, Nina Katchadourian, Slave Pianos, Bas Jan Ader, Matthew Benedict Karl Haendel Selection from the Shackleton Series 2008-2009, pencil on paper Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. From the collections of Zoe and Joel Dictrow, Lucy Mitchell Innes, Ellen Schweber, and … Continue reading
The Sea (and the wind)
Wind is full of this mystery. So, too, is the sea. Like wind, it is composite of nature; under the waves of water, which we can see, are waves of force, which we cannot see. Its constituents are — everything. Of all the jumbles of matter in the world the sea is the most indivisible … Continue reading
Barbara Sjoholm, Women & The Sea, Talk: October 18th, 7:30pm
Barbara Sjoholm October 18th 2011 7:30pm, Theatre Rm 301, South Building Emily Carr University of Art and Design A talk presented by the Charles H. Scott Gallery and the Vancouver Maritime Museum in conjunction with The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea Part II For some the ocean is a boundary, the … Continue reading
the voyage, or three years at sea 