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Vessels Built by the Yamanaka Family

compiled by John M. MacFarlane 2012

Sadakichi Yamanaka established the Yamanaka Boat Works on the Phoenix Cannery site in Steveston BC. Yamanaka had previously worked for Tomiichi Mukai. The yard closed during the Second World War. It was re–opened at the J.H. Todd & Sons cannery. In 1979 the company (now operated by Oscar Yamanaka) was moved to Delta BC.

Vessels Built by Sadakishi Yamanaka

Vessels Built by Yamanaka Boat Works Ltd.

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.

Vessel Images: Can you help us fill gaps in the vessel images in the database? If you have pictures of missing vessels that you have taken and would be willing to contribute to the database to make it more complete all our users would be very grateful. Please send them to admin(at)nauticapedia.ca

To quote from this article please cite:

MacFarlane, John M. (2012) Yamanaka Boat Works Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Vessel_Builders_Yamanaka.php

Site News: December 21, 2024

The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,824 vessel histories (with 16,274 images and 13,929 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).

Vessel records are currently being reviewed and updated with more than 45,000 processed so far this year (2024).

The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 3996 images).

Thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of vessel histories in the 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 has contributed 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.

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