Bulkarier

1929                                              Bulkarier                                             1968 (1980)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size self-unloading bulk cement carrier

Built at Haverton Hill-on-Tees England by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Hull 147
Launched

258’ LOA, 253’ LBP, 43’2” beam, 25’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1250 IHP

Enrolled at
253.0 x 43.3 x 23.9, 2376 GT, 1392 NT     Br 160726     to:
Canada Cement Transport Ltd., Montreal QC  (home port Middlesborough England)

Entered service 1929

Enrollment transferred to Canada 1930     Can 160726     (home port to Montreal QC)

Remeasured 1947 to 43.4 beam and 2408 GT, 1413 NT

Remeasured 1948 to 2399 GT, 1245 NT

Lengthened 1961 at Lauzon P.Q. by Davie Shipbuilding Ltd.
Remeasured to 326.0 length and 3114 GT, 1694 NT

Sold 1968 to J. D. Irving Ltd. for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Rebuilt with hopper bottom and used as a spoils carrier on the lower St. Lawrence River

Renamed Sable Island 1972

Scrapped 1980 at St. Hyacinthe QC

IMO 5055012

 

2933

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