Naval Ships in the Royston Breakwater

Naval Ships in the Royston Breakwater In March 2011 local historian Rick James and INA Research Associate John Pollack, led a 9-person trip to the Royston Breakwater on eastern Vancouver Island, one of the most diverse and as yet unstudied ship graveyard... More

Naval Ships in the Royston Breakwater
In March 2011 local historian Rick James and INA Research Associate John Pollack, led a 9-person trip
to the Royston Breakwater on eastern Vancouver Island, one of the most diverse and as yet unstudied
ship graveyard sites on the west coast of North America.
Six members of the Underwater Archaeological
Society of BC (a 160-member society in existence for three decades) joined three INA members, to make
the first assessment of the vessels at the Royston Breakwater.
The site is shallow (<6 m) and dense, with
14 vessels packed into a 500 x 100-m area.
The original breakwater was designed to protect the Comox
Logging and Railway Company log dump and booming ground on the south-western side of Comox Bay
that dates from the early 20th century.
The earliest ship was scuttled in the bay in 1936, and the last, in
1962.
Many have partially collapsed due to corrosion and storms on this exposed site, but significant
portions are still three Less