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anchor, sold for scrapping in 1926. Grounded on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet, two years were spent in dismantling her. During that period, bits and pieces of her interior fixtures and furnishings came into private hands. Two folding lavatories - or washstands - were picked up by a young Vancouver man for $2.00 each____one going up to the Cariboo for installation in a summer cottage. Forty-odd years later, the original collector of these washstands saw that both of them were placed in the Vancouver Maritime Museum as a memorial to a lovely ship. A leaded stained glass window bearing the C.P.R. monogram, once part of the dining saloon alcove where the piano was recessed, was crated up and placed in storage in the Sechelt Peninsula. It remained there, unopened, until its present owner graciously presented it to the Museum a few years back. Her foremast bell, a beautiful piece of casting weighing approzimately 700 lbs. had been acquired from a second-hand store for $300.00, taken up and installed as the school bell in the school house at Blubber Bay. Years later - with the school no longer functioning but with the sound of the bell still ringing fond memories - the Company that owned the site and the bell very kindly presented the latter to the Museum. There are Vancouver buildings that contain fragments of her public staircases installed in them, and two leaded glass front bookcases from her social hall are in a house in West Vancouver. Until it was demolished recently, a commercial building in North Vancouver had its ceiling covered with pressed, patterned tin squares that came from the ship's own ceilings, and a few of her fancy cast iron swivel chairs are in establishments in communities scattered along the Sunshine Coast. Smaller items connected with her service and career have come into the Museum's keeping as a mark of her presence. Besides a number of photographs, these have included a finely-honed cutthroat razor with case from the Barber Shop, menu cards from the 1890's and a couple of log books, as well as a framed early promotional illustration in colour. A magnificent model of her is on loan from its builder, Mr. O.A. Claridge. Many B.C. men served on her and many of her masters were distinguished citizens of this city. All these aspects help to preserve the history and memory of a distinctive "Vancouver" ship. But the largest and most distinctive of all figurehead. her remaining relics is her The figureheads of all three "White Empresses" were, in their day, already singular - for figureheads, per se, v^ere part of the structure of sailing ships ......and sailing ships, as a class, were - by the time the "Empresses" were built - long advanced towards their last horizon. A figurehead on an engined vessel was an uncommon bit of whimsey - and on ones dedicated to commerce, even more so. Whatever its origins, the figurehead of the EMPRESS OF JAPAN (I) us.....albeit not too much in the form that it once had. is still with Let's recap its short history from the time of the scrapping of the ship in Burrard Inlet , 1926-28. The late Mr. Frank J. Burd, publisher of the Vancouver Daily Province, with the encouragement of a few local residents who were mourning the unmarked passing of a great and favourite vessel, decided on the saving of the figurehead. He had it rescued - from the wrecker's scrapheap. In co-operation with the Vancouver Parks Board, the newspaper, in 1927, had it mounted on a concrete stand and placed on the foreshore of Stanley Park, overlooking the entrance to the harbour where for so many years the ship had fulfilled her charge. A plaque stating that it was a present and memorial to the Citizens of Vancouver was mounted on the stand. But even then, the local authorities were largely in-