after considerable remodelling and redecor- The P.M.L. 14 is 92 feet, 9 inches over-
ating. Her skipper is Sergeant Harold Ray- all with an 18-foot beam and 18-foot
bone. draft. She is registered as 60.39 tons and
Incidentally, when one uses the term has a gross tonnage of 109.36. She was
“skipper” in referring to the officer in originally built in Nova Scotia in 1930. Her
territory includes the West Coast of Van-
couver Island from Victoria to Kyoquot.

OTHER POLICE BOATS

The P.M.L. 6 is stationed at Ganges Har-
bour on Salt Spring Island, where Corporal
Fred W. B. Boyt, her skipper, is the senior
representative of the khaki and green. His
engineer is Constable N. J. Fiander. The
P.M.L. 6 is 45 feet long, has an 11-foot
beam, 5-foot draft, and is powered with a : ; ;
50-horsepower Vivian Diesel engine. She Gulf Islands, as far north as Nanaimo, pete
was built by Hoffar-Beeching in 1928. The prise the territory for Constable Boyt’s
7 patrol.

Constable Victor Bond is the skipper
aboard the P.M.L. 7, stationed at Ocean
Falls. Constable N. C. B. Nelson is en
gineer and Constable W. W. Deans is
wireless operator. This crew covers the!
territory south to Rivers Inlet and Smiths
Inlet and north as far as Butedale, includ
ing coastal islands, but not across Hecate
Strait to Queen Charlotte Islands. The “7”
is 52 feet long, 12-foot beam, 6!/2-foot
draft, and is powered with a 75-horsepower
Eastern Standard. She was built in Van-

Off the Skeena River

—Photo by Sergt. H. Raybone

charge of a police launch it is by no means
a misnomer, for each ship carries a skipper
with a coast certificate.

Constable T. B. Gurney, engineer; Con’
stable F. H. Brooksbank, quartermaster;
Probationer L. C. Scott, radio operator, and
Constable D. Armstrong, cook, complete
the complement of the “14°. She has first
class accommodation for her crew and ade-
quate room for prisoners. The after hold

has been converted into a courtroom where couver.
justice is ministered at lonely island points Winter patrol, Skeena River. Her sister ship, the P.M.L. 8, is stationed
where there are no courtrooms available. —Photo by Sergt. H. Raybone at Prince Rupert and was built by Yarrows,

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