Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Brookes Scrapbooks, January 1 to June 15, 1946, p. 12

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Infill III n« Kingston, March 28 «p^j£A 500-passenger steamer wiU^M^ Utructed in the Canadian Shipbudd-ing and Engineering Plant here > was announced today by W. H. Cov erdale, president of Canada Steam-Ship Lines, The keel of the all-tee! ship will be laid as soon as SLrial is available. The steamer will be permitted to carry 1,000 passengers, 500 of whom will be provided with stateroom accom-. modation. The ship will be of the twin sB Sast »-s,f nurses' quarters, a -^ ™""c room for dancing and meetings, wTd™ promenade decks, souvenir Ud gift shops, and deck space for Cargoes of freight and automobile^ placing of the ordei: with the local company, controlled by Can ada Steamship Lines, will mean hiring of additional mechanics, though the number has not been •LnnSnced. The work wil be tunder the direction of T. G. Bishop, General manager of the shipyards. g CaPt X. J. Reoch, operating manager and H. McClymont, technical adviser of Canada Steamship Lines, areln conference here today with Mr. Bishop and company officials I regarding the work on the new !Uhit> The new vessel will replace ' he steamer Kingston which has i operated for the past 40 years on the Rochester-Prescott route. Vessels Sail Early For Coal Cargoes _____«. oa r«!necia !Rrs+Vessel At Owen Sound Four days abeaa rn divl. Apnln°fP the Welland Canal, which sion of the vveno earliest would have been¦ one °f £e ^ ^ in recent years, the steamshlp Goderich °tCa™tlr berths be- ^al for Sa'ult Ste Mane The ear y °f ™fJ^and for iS due entirely to the a ^•r^ue'tocons^tlonatthe cargoes. Due to ^ v dock at Ontario Paper Company a Thorold, and other W»« April 5 or 7. Owen SoundMarch,28 (CP^ First vessel to am _ .Sound this yeaf-*htehe harbor late royal steamed mto the n rf trade EoHay. OwenSound ^ hat presented the traa skipper. to Capt. & MeLelian^ q£ ^ Departure a few ^ay Shaughnessy steamers Sir lnom opened and the Capt. C. v. a .navigation here ITry to Raise Freighter BUvme, March *$»«£Q Work has begun °nconrtrund I a second c°»enrtlf^ehter Outarde sunken Canadian ^"^ sank 8t ?X°t'ofwaterhin front of the in 30 feet oi. During the town docks, Nov^.*^ ^ and| winter a cofferdam^w fl<) on March 17 thei snip ln, bUVhteof°waTer The &000 ves-feilf ownTd by the Quebec^andl Ontario Transportation Co., Mon , real. NEW CANAL FREIGHJEE8 ^ NThree f»al"S in Montreal for of their type bmlt J tructed at manv years, W1U";; it has been an- I gSSktan Vickers L td.i ha nounced by ^^who ^™e Tef t°ne shipCSaondtaheir c6mPletion. BUILD NEW STEAMER adSaSf^e^ha^nlS ! that a>-Pt|-r £T S-ElE |RiThe vessel, largest ever to be built the? wTbe 3^fet long wih a 70-foot beam and 15 feet draugnt. ^ V

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