Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
- Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
The Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company operated at Thunder Bay, Ontario on Lake Superior from its organization in October 1909 [ Port Arthur Daily News 14 October 1909.] until its reorganization in November 1916 as the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company. It was probably a subsidiary of the Cleveland-based American Ship Building Company [Port Arthur Daily News 5 October 1914.] until entrepreneur James Whalen took control in 1916. [Port Arthur News-Chronicle 7 & 11 November 1916.] Whalen was president from 1909-1916.
Its dry dock and shops were located at Bare Point at the extreme eastern end of the Thunder Bay harbour. They were constructed in 1910. The first launching of a vessel was June 27, 1911, a scow or barge for the Great Lakes Dredging Company. [Port Arthur Daily News 27 June 1911.]
During the First World War, the company also produced shells and munitions for the Imperial Munitions Board. It also built Big Bull tractors in 1915. [Port Arthur Daily News 20 May, 14 Aug 1915.]
hips built by the company
* Hamiltonian (steel package freighter, 1912)
* Calgarian (package freighter, 1913)
* Noronic (passenger steamer, 1913)
* Nasookin (passenger steamer, 1913)
* Sicamous (passenger steamer, 1914)
* W. Grant Morden (lake bulk carrier, 1914)
* Blaamyra (ocean freighter, 1916)
* Thorjerd (ocean freighter, 1916)
Links
* [http://www.nextlibrary.com] Photograph no 272 S.S. Dunelm in dry dock 1911 and no 273 the tug Laura Grace and barge Province in dry dock May 1918.
* [http://www.inlandseas.org/collections/shipsplans/westernsbdd.html] List of Western Dry Dock ship plans.
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