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Junks at Hong Kong 1941
by John MacFarlane 2016
Large Sea–going Junk at Hong Kong 1941 (Photo from the MacFarlane Family collection. )
These photographs were taken by my father from the deck of HMCS Prince Robert in 1941. He had never seen vessels like these except in books, so he recorded them on a tiny box camera.
Coastal Junk at Hong Kong 1941 (Photo from the MacFarlane Family collection. )
Wikipedia says that "Junks were used as seagoing vessels as early as the 2nd century AD. The term junk may be used to cover many kinds of boat—ocean-going, cargo-carrying, pleasure boats, live-aboards. They vary greatly in size and there are significant regional variations in the type of rig, however they all employ fully battened sails."
Junk at Hong Kong 1941 (Photo from the MacFarlane Family collection. )
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Site News: February 12, 2025
ANOTHER MILESTONE REACHED
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 95,146 vessel histories (with 16,409 images and 14,064 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
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My thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel 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 continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
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Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database.