Canadian Adventurer

(1919) 1921                                  Canadian Adventurer                                  1925 (1960)

Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter

Built at Port Arthur ON by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Hull 41
Launched Sept 8, 1919

251’ LBP, 43’ beam, 24’ depth
1 deck, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine,

Enrolled at Montreal QC
251.3 x 43.9 x 20.3, 2069 GT, 1201 NT     Can 141486     to:
Minister of Marine & Fisheries, Ottawa ON (home port Montreal QC)
Vessel built for the Canadian government merchant marine under its World War I vessel construction program.  Each vessel was assigned to an individual firm identifying the name of the vessel.

Transferred 1920 to Canadian Adventurer Ltd.

Participated in the fall grain trade on the Great Lakes beginning in Nov 1921

Sold Oct 20, 1925 to Canada-Cuba Steamship Co. for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes.

Renamed Emperor of Port McNicholl 1925 and Nootka 1926

Scrapped Peru 1960

 

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