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Marine Atlantic Inc. (French: Marine Atlantique) is an independent Canadian federal Crown corporation which is mandated to operate ferry services between the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. Marine Atlantic's corporate headquarters are in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Eastern Canada Towing was purchased in 2007 by Svitzer, a tug boat division of Maersk. Point Chebucto is powered by twin diesel engines which put out 4000 HP and is an azimuthing stern drive tug. Her tonnage is 434 gt and she is 33.31 meters long. Her breadth is 10 meters, she sits 4.24 meters in the water and has a max speed of 12 knots. [2]
Cape Islanders in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. A Cape Islander, a style of fishing boat mostly used for lobster fishing, is an inshore motor fishing boat found across Atlantic Canada having a single keeled flat bottom at the stern and more rounded towards the bow. The Cape Island style boat is famous for its large step up to the bow.
ABCO Industries is located on the waterfront of the UNESCO World Heritage Site-designated port town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The shipyard was founded in 1947 on the site of the World War II Norwegian military training facility Camp Norway. [ 1 ]
On July 31, 1980, Margaret Jane was returning an injured crew member to Lunenburg after three days of scallop fishing with an 18-member crew. [4] [7] [8] Cape Beaver, a steel-plated 160-foot wetfish trawler owned by National Sea Products, was undergoing her first shakedown cruise in Nova Scotia waters and had dignitaries on board.
Henry W. Embree and Sons, Boatbuilders, was a boat yard in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, that operated from 1859 to 1948. [1] The youngest son of a boatbuilding family, Henry Embree established his own boat yard between Brown and Pitt Streets, on the Port Hawkesbury waterfront, next to the P. Paint and Sons warehouse.
East Wind 25 (Paceship), Armdale Yacht Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2024. The company's predecessor was the Mahone Bay Plycraft Company Ltd, which sold plywood boats as kits for amateur construction, as well as completed boats. These were marketed under various brand names. [2] Paceship Chance 32/28
Bay Ferries operates the ferry service across the Bay of Fundy between Saint John, New Brunswick, and Digby, Nova Scotia, using the vessel MV Fundy Rose.. This ferry service is a continuation of steamship service dating to the 19th century, expanded upon by the Dominion Atlantic Railway in the early 20th century and subsequently the Canadian Pacific (CP).