Port Weller Drydocks

Port Weller Drydocks was 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 became insolvent.

Seaway Marine & Industrial Incorporated, renamed the facility Seaway Marine and Industrial Limited, but the firm went bankrupt in 2013 resulting in the closure of the shipyard and loss of jobs.[1]

The yard was used briefly in 2015 by Algoma Central to perform maintenance work on self-unloading bulk carrier MV Algoma Enterprise and was leased by St. Lawrence Seaway (current owner of the facility).[2]

Port Weller Drydocks viewed from across the Welland Canal

Ships

Ships built at this facility include:

  1. CCGS Des Groseilliers icebreaker for Canadian Coast Guard
  2. MV Holiday Island for Canadian National Railway
  3. MV Vacationland for Canadian National Railway
  4. Windsolite Imperial Oil tanker
  5. Dal-housie City a local passenger vessel
  6. Saskadoc - large bulk carrier
  7. Bruce Hudson (ship) - oil tanker
  8. Makaweli - tanker
  9. Wellandoc (Brampton) - bauxite carrier during World War II
  10. Handy Boy - floating steam crane
  11. John A. France 1960 - Great Lakes bulk carrier - renamed Algoriver in 1994 by Algoma and scrapped in Turkey 2003
  12. Coalfax - converted self-loader
  13. Soreldoc (laker) - laker
  14. Bayanna (steamer) - self-loading steamer
  15. C.H. Houson 1929 - canaller
  16. Ralph S. Misener 1968 - bulker carrier and named for President of Scott Misner Steamships Limited was built in Montreal and now renamed Gordan C Leitch
  17. Norman B. Macpherson - former canal bulk carrier Loadmaster
  18. Lt. John Misener - bulk laker built as Scott Misner and renamed 1954
  19. Texaco Brave - oil tanker
  20. Blue Cross (ship)
  21. Blue River (ship)
  1. Transtream - tanker
  2. Translate (ship)
  3. Steamship Valley Camp - lake freighter
  4. Clevelander
  5. Governor (tug) - tug
  6. Is-obel and Sidney Mac - dredgers
  7. The Inland (Transinland) - canallers
  8. Milverton (Clary Foran)
  9. Imperial Whitby (self-unloader George S. Gleet) - tanker
  10. Valley Camp - self loader
  11. Texaco Warrior - oil tanker
  12. Scott Misener 1951 - bulker laker and renamed John E F Misner 1954
  13. John O. McKellar 1952 - laker
  14. Rocky River (tug) - tug
  15. Black River (bulk carrier) and Pic River - diesel driven bulkers
  16. Robert Woods (ship)
  17. Albion (steamer) - steamer
  18. Captain C.D. Secord - steamer
  19. Grey Beaver - bulk carrier
  20. C.A. Ansell (Fairlake and Ralph S. Misener)
  21. Chicago Tribune - newsprinter carrier (came to Port Weller)
  22. MV Jiimaan (1992), ferry servicing Pelee, Ontario

Coordinates: 43°12′58″N 79°12′29″W / 43.21616°N 79.20806°W / 43.21616; -79.20806

References

  1. ↑ http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/07/23/ship-yards-go-bankrupt
  2. ↑ http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2015/01/08/dry-docks-get-short-lease-for-algoma-repair
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