Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Brookes Scrapbooks, 1966, p. 49

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iiuiuueis, were an off-co lor II , versiornsf a new issue of 10s. I /*2l . n ¦ fl\X "cffi^-^fl ^Carrier pulled V' ! Take off cargo I , 0ff mudbanPt^ to free vessel from island mud Special to The Globe and Mail KINGSTON — Salvage crews yesterday removed part of the iron ore cargo of the freighter Hilda Marjane, aground on WolTe IslandTTnTin attempt to float the 730-foot vessel. Ore was taken from the starboard hold to lighten the ship. The vessel is owned by Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. of Toronto and was en route from Labrador to the upper lakes. The vessel ran aground on Thursday. s<^^^ near Kingston Special to The Globe and Mail KINGSTON — Two tugs pulled the 730-foot ore carrier Hilda Marjane off a mudbank southeast of Wolfe Island in Lake Ontario near here Saturday morning. It had gone aground about 3 a.m. Thursday. The freighter, owned by Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Shipping Co. of Toronto, was refloated after more than 2,000 tons of its 20,000-ton cargo was removed, c^\jj.3-<£l ' i&m^i QUEBEC (CP) — Police officials directing a * search for eight men still missing after a dredge sank near Quebec City last night today identified two bodies they had taken from the oil-slicked St. Lawrence river during the night. Dead are Lawrence Monbourquette, of Ardoise, N.S., and Real Parent, of Tracy, Que. They drowned when the dredge Manseau 1Q1 was swamped by a large wave'ana' sank near the Quebec City bridge, about 10 miles west of the city. ------------- ¦) Port authorities said 13 other I members of the 23-man crew of the dredge, owned by Marine Industries Ltd., of Sorel, Que., were rescued either by the tug Rene Simard. which had been "lowing the dredge, or by other ships dispatched to the scene. Survivors of the sinking said that they were swamped by a huge wave shortly after a large boat passed them while they were lowering large pylons the dredge uses to keep itself in place. "THE MINUTE I saw this big ship coming toward us at full speed, I knew we were going to have it," said John Reid, 35, of Saint John N.B., a winch man aboard title dredge. "The ship passed about 300 feet from us and I knew there would be a strong stern wake." Mr. Reid was interviewed in the lobby of a downtown hotel. He was wearing a waiter's jacket and had a towel wrapped around him — he lost all his clothing in the sinking. He said he kept his post at the winch until he felt that the dredge would capsize. "That ship — I couldn't see the name — passed us exactly like a Cadillac goes by a Volkswagen on a highway. warehouse or piei-uu^.. ICUNARD Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. of Liverpool will transfer the 22,000-ton liner Sylvania to Southampton-MontrfaT-service next year from its Liverpool-New York service, which will not be operated in 1967. Regular service from Montreal and Quebec City is planned using the Carmania, Sylvania ajid CarinJhia.~"Before entering the Montreal run, the Sylvania will be based at Gibraltar for a series of spring Mediterranean cruises with passengers flown between Britain and Gibraltar. ;l£e!^BOWATER Z/'^x Bowater Newfoundland Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. of Corner Brook, Nfld., has changed its name to Bowaters Newfoundland Ltd. The company is a subsidiary of Bowater Paper Corp. Ltd. of London. ViFROM THE TIME the water started to fill the dredge and from the time she started to list, there wasn't more than a minute or a minute and a half." The 135 - foot Manseau 101 sank at about 8.30 p.m. under clear conditions and strong westerly winds. The dredge was put into position to begin work on construction of a second bridge parallel to the present Quebec City bridge. The one known death raised to 85 the number of persons who have drowned while working on bridge construction on this section of the river. THE PREVIOUS deaths were in 1907, when 70 persons died, and in 1916, when 14 were killed. One of the rescued men was taken to hospital, but his condition was not serious. Two others, Andre Peloquin, 54, of He du Pas, Que., and Raymond j Demers, 30, of Deschaillons, | Que., were treated for shock ! and released. i They said that the dredge had left nearby Boucherville, Que., with a crew of 23, reduced from the normal 29 because six men were off for the weekend. Mr. Peloquin had been in the freezing waters for about 15 minutes when he saw a spotlight on a tug. "They threw me a rope and I grabbed it. They pulled and then someone grabbed me by the collar and I found myself on t h e tug."

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