by Mr Link » March 28, 2023, 12:41 pm
Interesting question. Not sure about before 1970, but here are a few scrappers mentioned in old editions of the Toronto Marine Historical Society's Scanner from the 1970's and 1980's:
United Steel and Refining Co, Hamilton
Newman Steel, Port Maitland
Western Metals Corp, Thunder Bay
Affiliated Marine Metal and Marine, Toronto
Unnamed company, Windsor
Advance Metals, Buffalo
Unnamed company, Port Stanley.
And here are some places where I have seen vessels scrapped in the past 20 years or so. Not sure how long they were in the scrapping business:
Dean Construction, LaSalle, Ont. (several carfloats and barges)
Verplank dock, Muskegon ( Sea Castle and barges)
Julio Contracting yard, Ripley, MI (across from Houghton). (tugs and fish tugs)
Unknown company adjacent to St. Marys Cement, Lake Calumet (Mostly inland river barges, but they were scrapping for years, so they probably did tugs and lake barges as well.)
Reid Metals, Dafter, MI (tugs and fish tugs trucked whole to their yard in Dafter, or larger vessels cut up at the Soo.)
Purvis dock above the locks.
And of course Ford scrapped hundreds of vessels at the Rouge plant after World War I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEP2fSuBv-Q
Interesting question. Not sure about before 1970, but here are a few scrappers mentioned in old editions of the Toronto Marine Historical Society's Scanner from the 1970's and 1980's:
United Steel and Refining Co, Hamilton
Newman Steel, Port Maitland
Western Metals Corp, Thunder Bay
Affiliated Marine Metal and Marine, Toronto
Unnamed company, Windsor
Advance Metals, Buffalo
Unnamed company, Port Stanley.
And here are some places where I have seen vessels scrapped in the past 20 years or so. Not sure how long they were in the scrapping business:
Dean Construction, LaSalle, Ont. (several carfloats and barges)
Verplank dock, Muskegon ( Sea Castle and barges)
Julio Contracting yard, Ripley, MI (across from Houghton). (tugs and fish tugs)
Unknown company adjacent to St. Marys Cement, Lake Calumet (Mostly inland river barges, but they were scrapping for years, so they probably did tugs and lake barges as well.)
Reid Metals, Dafter, MI (tugs and fish tugs trucked whole to their yard in Dafter, or larger vessels cut up at the Soo.)
Purvis dock above the locks.
And of course Ford scrapped hundreds of vessels at the Rouge plant after World War I: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEP2fSuBv-Q[/url]