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Cypress Mist: Views of a Floating Forestry Cookhouse and Accommodation Barge
The Cypress Mist (Photo from the Terry Coomber collection. )
Two different contributors saw this barge on the ways in Nanaimo Shipyard, (at 1040 Stewart Avenue) and took pictures which we share here.
The Cypress Mist (Photo from the Terry Coomber collection. )
The Cypress Mist was built in 1974 in Fort Nelson BC by Sikanni Oilfield Construction Ltd. as the S.B.M.T. 803. The original name is thought to be an acronym for Streeper Brothers Marine Transport. In 1975-1992 she was owned by Keen Industries Ltd., Edmonton AB. In 1993-1994 she was owned by Delta North Transportation Ltd., Edmonton AB. In 1995-2013 she was owned by International Forest Products Ltd., Vancouver BC. In 2013-2017 she was owned by Interfor Corporation, Vancouver BC. 51.05m x 13.72m x 1.98m steel hulled 441gt/rt.
The Cypress Mist (Photo from the Terry Coomber collection. )
The vessel functions as cookhouse and accommodation for Interfor at logging shows up the coast.
The Cypress Mist (Photo from the Terry Coomber collection. )
The Cypress Mist (Photo from the Allen Felker collection. )
The Cypress Mist (Photo from the Allen Felker collection. )
Site News: April 24, 2024
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 92,289 vessel histories (with 15,634 images and 13,293 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters). The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,616 entries (with 4,013 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 a semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Also my special thanks to my volunteer content accuracy checker, John Spivey of Irvine CA USA, who has proofread thousands of Nauticapedia vessel histories and provided input to improve more than 11,000 entries. His attention to detail has been a huge unexpected bonus in improving and updating the vessel detail content.