She was sold again in 1906 for Seal hunting, then purchased by the Department of Marine & Fisheries where she guided freighters into New Westminster, British Columbia for 43 years.

When she sank at her mooring in 2002, the International Yacht Restoration School, Mystic Seaport and the Vancouver Maritime Museum, removed the vessel in pieces for the archeological teams to study and document the remains of her hull.

Thomas F. Bayard was a pilot schooner built in 1880, by ship designer William Townsend, superintendent of the C. & R. Poillon shipyard in Brooklyn, New York.

She sailed out to the Pacific Northwest around the Cape Horn and traded as far north as St. Michael's at the mouth of the Yukon River, Alaska and as far south as Seattle and Port Townsend, Washington.

In 1906, when the Gold Rush ended, she was sold to Captain Hans Blakstad, who used her as a sealer for seal and sea otter fishing out of Victoria, British Columbia.

[6] In December 1983, the Thomas F. Bayard Restoration Society was formed by a local group, headed by president Doug Ford.

[7] The city hauled the sunken boat out of the creek in pieces for the U.S. based International Yacht Restoration School, Mystic Seaport and the Vancouver Maritime Museum, for the archeological teams to study and document the remains of her hull.

[8] The Thomas F. Bayard collection, at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, includes photographs, textual records and negatives related to the history and preservation efforts.