Songhee & Vigorous, owned by Jim Roome at the time the photo reference was taken for this painting at his Dock in Maple Bay. Nauticapedia states she was built in 1944 at Star Shipyards for the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1953 she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1991 she was designated as a British Columbia Vintage Vessel by the by the Maritime Museum of BC. She is now owned by Queen Charlotte Lodge in Haida Gwaii and renamed “Driftwood”. Vigorous II was built by A.C. Benson Shipyard Ltd. In 1956. On October 6, 1972 she had an engine room fire off Fisherman’s Cove, Vancouver Harbour BC. In 1975 she burned and was salvaged and rebuilt by Jim Roome. She is now owned by Campbell Island Charters and Marine Service in Bella Bella I believe.
Photographer: Cal Gourley
