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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.
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]
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 ]
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
Numbering plan area (NPA) 902 originally comprised the three Maritime provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.. The incumbent local exchange carrier in the numbering plan area is Bell Aliant, which was produced from a merger that included Island Telecom Inc. (formerly Island Telephone, but both were informally shortened to Island Tel), Maritime Telephone and Telegraph ...
It has been claimed that Amos Stevens produced Tancook's first counter stern schooner the Black Nance, a 38-footer, around 1903. [1] Within a few years the characteristic "spoon bow", with its greater buoyancy and fullness compared to the so-called Aberdeen or clipper bow of the Tancook whaler, was standard among the island's four boat building families who collectively produced most of these ...
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.
[2] [4] The boat is unusual, as it is a full-size replica of a scale model. The original model which was used to film the series and inspired Theodore Too can be seen at Halifax, Nova Scotia's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. [6] Theodore Too was built at Snyder's Shipyard in Dayspring, Nova Scotia and launched on April 19, 2000.