Port Colborne Scrapyard

[Guest]

It has not been sold for scrap but it is widely known that when the day does come it will likely have to be scrapped there since it can’t be towed out the Seaway.

By that measure, why aren’t all the vessels too large for the seaway currently scheduled to be scrapped there?

[Guest]

It has not been sold for scrap but it is widely known that when the day does come it will likely have to be scrapped there since it can’t be towed out the Seaway.

[Guest]

I don't understand why there are no ships at the scrap yard?

Isn't the Roger Blough scheduled to be scrapped there as well as a few other ships currently in layup?

The Blough has not been sold for scrap.

[Guest JD]

I don't understand why there are no ships at the scrap yard?

Isn't the Roger Blough scheduled to be scrapped there as well as a few other ships currently in layup?

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They are scrapping them faster than they are taking them in. They scrap barges, tugs, and smaller vessels too not just the big freighters.

Also for the comment about the pilothouses; they typically keep them for a decade, and if nobody buys them, they get scrapped. There was a higher end documentary in the 90s that used them for a prop.

[Guest]

I don't understand why there are no ships at the scrap yard?

Isn't the Roger Blough scheduled to be scrapped there as well as a few other ships currently in layup?

[Luth]

I had a cool chance to transit the Welland this week. As we went by Port Colborne I didn’t notice anything other than a row of pilot houses, one of which look like it could have been the Cuyahoga, and a row of propellers. Seemingly on display, I’m sure they sell them for people to covert into cottages…?

[Guest]

If you go onto to Facebook, the scrap yard has a page -

Marine Recycling Corporation(ex-I.M.S.), Port Colborne

Pixctures posted January 19th show only the stern of the Cuyahoga remaining. Good website which is maintained by the yard and has pictures of vessels as they are scrapped.

[Guest]

What ships are currently at the scrapyard?

Is the Cuyahoga gone?

What other ships are headed there? Roger Blough?