Quebec & Ontario Transportation Company
The Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company was a shipping firm in Canada prior to the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway.[1][2]
Their fleet included:
| Name | Year of build |
horsepower | gross tons | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Medill Paterson ex Baie Comeau | 1954 | 610 | 2300 | |
| Chicago Tribune | 1930 | 970 | 2960 | |
| Joseph Medill | 1935 | 1000 | 2080 | Lost with all hands on her delivery voyage from England |
| Franquelin | 1936 | 1000 | 2097 | Prince Ungava 1964-67/Jean-Talon 1967-74 |
| New York News ex Belvoir | 1925 | 1100 | 2310 | |
| Outarde ex Brulin | 1925 | 1050 | 2241 | salvaged after several shipwrecks[4] |
| Shelter Bay ex New York News | 1922 | 800 | 1670 | |
| Washington Times-Herald ex Imari | 1929 | 750 | 1940 | |
| Col. Robert R. McCormick ex Manicouagan | 1955 | 610 | 2314 | |
| Golden Hind | 000 | 000 | 000 | |
| Dubo International | 1998 | 000 | 000 |
Relevant History
[edit]- News bulletin source: Toronto Marine Historical Society [1]
References
[edit]- ^ Allen Sykes, Skip Gillham (1988). "Pulp & Paper Fleet: A History of the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company". Stonehouse Publications. ISBN 9780919549159. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
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Mark L. Thompson (13 April 2004). "Graveyard of the Lakes". Great Lakes Books. ISBN 9780814332269. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
The last Canadian freighter with wooden hatches was the Pic River, operated at the end of her career by the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company. The ship had been launched in 1896 as the unpowered barge James Nasmyth.
- ^ James Gilmore (1957). "The St Lawrence River Canals Vessel". Maritime History of the Great Lakes. Retrieved 2014-01-26.
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"Brulin 1924". Tyne built ships. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
16/10/1932: Grounded & holed on Seven Acre Shoal, Lake Ontario. Subsequently refloated, after a cargo lightening operation and repaired.