Canadian Car & Minesweeper
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Workers, dignitaries, French sailors and officers pose in front of the "Navarin", Canadian Car & Foundry Co's first minesweeper. This was the first of twelve the plant was to build for the French Navy. Building the minesweepers at Canadian Car & Foundry Co. was an incredible feat. In February of 1918, when the contract to build the twelve minesweepers was signed, Can-Car did not have a building high enough to construct the hulls, no dry dock, and no means of launching the ships into the Kaministiquia River, which was more than 425 meters away. By October of 1918, all of this had been accomplished and the last of the minesweepers had been built.
- Notes
- flag, ship, men, propeller, rails, hull, Fort William
- Date of Original
- 28 Jul 1918
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- Uncatalogued. From postcard.
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 48.4001 Longitude: -89.31683
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- Contact
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