Vessels Built by Turner Boat Works Ltd.

compiled by John M. MacFarlane 2015

They were a boat building company located in Vancouver BC. It started on Coal Harbour about 1897. William Turner, Jr., was a boat builder who operated Turner's Boat Works with his father, William Harold Turner, Sr. (1867-1951). Turner, Sr. came to Canada in 1888 and established Turner's Boat Works in 1908. He retired in 1942, his son then operated the shipyard. In 1943, a fire destroyed the shipyard, but it was rebuilt and continued to operate until 1958, when the younger Turner retired.

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Name Registration Vessel Type Year Built
Mayfly (Canada) Yacht, speedboat 1945c
Mercury IX (I) 192042 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1949
Mercury V 197362 (Canada) Work Boat 1953
Mercury VI (I) 198096 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1954
Merlin III 198677 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1955
Nanaimo Sprite 198657 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1954
Oh-Oh II 194212 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1951
P.D.Q. 192885 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1950
P.D.Q. II (I) 188614 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1956
P.D.Q. II (II) 194689 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1948
P.G. Lady 179620 (Canada) Work Boat 1947
Peanut No. 7 192075 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1948
Phantom Lady V 198982 (Canada) Tug 1955
Placebo (I) 190285 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1948
Placebo II 195885 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1952
Portland Breeze 140918 (Canada) Fishboat, general 1918
Prowler (I) 190794 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1949
Robert Allen (I) 320158 (Canada) Work Boat 1953
Ruxton II 313214 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1948
Sea Minor 190582 (Canada) Yacht 1948
Sgian Dubh 190582 (Canada) Yacht 1948
Snow Goose II (I) 198678 (Canada) Yacht 1955
Strombolli II 194648 (Canada) Work Boat 1951
Sun Dance III 192042 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1949
Sun Dance IV 194644 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1951
Sundance V (I) 198089 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1954
T.24 194681 (Canada) Tug 1952
T.25 195910 (Canada) Tug 1953
T.28 188327 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1955
Tenfir 310422 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1958
Texada Moccasin 197719 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1954
Trader Roc 192862 (Canada) Yacht 1950
Tzonie 198924 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1955
Wales Island No. 9 140918 (Canada) Fishboat, general 1918
Wee Chapy (I) 198925 (Canada) Yacht, power-cruiser 1953
Westview Flyer No. 1 195247 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1946
White Arrow No. 1 198940 (Canada) Passenger Vessel 1955
Wilma K. 190626 (Canada) Tug, yarding 1949

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