Port Weller Drydocks
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Port Weller Drydocks is a shipbuilder located on the Welland Canal at the Lake Ontario entrance.
Founded in 1946, the two drydocks are located on the east side of the canal in Port Weller, Ontario. It was sold to Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering Ltd, but later went under.
The current owners have renamed the facility Seaway Marine and Industrial Limited.
[edit] Ships
Ships built at this facility include:
- MV Holiday Island for Northumberland Ferries Limited
- MV Vacationland for Northumberland Ferries Limited
- Imperial Oil tanker WINDSOLITE
- local passenger vessel DAL-HOUSIE CITY
- large bulk carrier SASKADOC
- tanker BRUCE HUDSON
- tanker MAKAWELI
- WELLANDOC (BRAMPTON)
- floating steam crane HANDY BOY
- WINDSOLITE (IMPERIAL WINDSOR)
- JOHN A. FRANCE and SCOTT MISENER
- COALFAX
- SORELDOC
- BAYANNA
- C.H. HOUSON
- RALPH S. MISENER
- NORMAN B. MACPHERSON
- LT. JOHN MISENER
- TEXACO BRAVE
- BLUE CROSS
- BLUE RIVER
- BRUCE HUDSON
- TRANSTREAM
- TRANSLATE
- VALLEY CAMP
- CLEVELANDER
- tug GOVERNOR
- dredges IS-OBEL and SIDNEY MAC
- canaller THE INLAND (TRANSINLAND)
- MILVERTON (CLARY FORAN)
- tanker IMPERIAL WHITBY (self-unloader GEORGE S. GLEET)
- self-unloader VALLEY CAMP
- TEXACO WARRIOR
- SCOTT MISENER
- JOHN O. MCKELLAR
- tug ROCKY RIVER.
- diesel driven bulker BLACK RIVER and PIC RIVER
- ROBERT WOODS
- steamer ALBION
- steamer CAPTAIN C.D. SECORD
- bulk carrier GREY BEAVER
- C.A. ANSELL (FAIRLAKE and RALPH S. MISENER)
- newsprint carrier CHICAGO TRIBUNE came to Port Weller
