The Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Limited (Papers to 1967)
The Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Limited is a company statement dated August 1962 reprinted on pages 1–3 of Papers to 1967, describing the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company plant and listing vessels built there.[1]
Key facts
- The plant was built in 1909–1911 at the north end of the Lakehead harbour; it covers 35 fenced acres with 76 buildings and has a dry-dock 728 feet long and 98 feet wide.[1]
- In the Second World War it built 9 corvettes, 6 Bangor-class and 20 Algerine-class ships plus aircraft components; employment peaked at 2,150 in July 1944.[1]
- Postwar work included seven pump barges for the Steep Rock Iron Mines, tankers and bulk carriers for Upper Lakes, vessels for the Canadian Navy and an icebreaker and buoy vessel for the Department of Transport; employment averaged 440 over the preceding five years.[1]
- The list of vessels built in 1911–1950s on pages 2–3 includes the lake freighters Nasookin and Calgarian, the passenger vessel Noronic, the Sicamous, Naramata, Donnacona and Rossport, the suction dredge J. T. Horne and war-built ocean freighters named War Fish, War Dance and others; the table is garbled in the digital copy and is not transcribed here.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "The Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Limited", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), p. 1. Archived: datum.locker.
- ↑ "The Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Limited", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), pp. 2–3. Archived: datum.locker.