Restorer (cable Ship)

The British cable ship Restorer, nominally based at Victoria, was transferred to Seattle in 1916, operating from that port throughout the war years and until 1921. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1916, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966., p. 266.

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Restorer (cable Ship)

A handsome steamship arrived at Victoria in 1908 to begin a career which was to place her among the most famous of the British Columbia vessels. The 1,280-ton cable ship Restorer, 337 feet in length, was built in England in 1903 and had operated out of Singapore before being brought to British Columbia to maintain the Pacific Cable, stretching from Bamfield, on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, through the Hawaiian and Fiji Islands to New Zealand and Australia. Except for two terms of war service, this trim, yachtlike steamer maintained her base at Victoria for almost forty years, being commanded by such well -known masters as Captains Basil Combe, W. T. Gagnon, Donald Cantell, James L. Thacker and J. H. Connelly. Gordon Newell, Maritime events of 1908, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: Superior, 1966.

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