Port Nelson dredge

The Port Nelson dredge was wrecked on the artificial island by a storm in November 1924.
The Port Nelson at work.

In 1913 Canada's Ministry of Railways and Canals commissioned the Polson Ironworks, in Toronto, Ontario to build a large suction dredger to help construct what was to be the first port on North America's Arctic Ocean coast -- to be named the Port Nelson.[1] She was completed in March, 1914, and towed to Hudson's Bay, arriving in September 1914, where she promptly ran aground.[2] A 1924 storm tossed her onto the artificial island she helped create, where her wreck remains today.[3]

She carried a crew of 35, and was 180 feet (55 m) long, had beam of 43 feet (13 m), a draft of 6 feet (1.8 m), and displaced 1200 tonnes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Port Nelson dredge". Retrieved 2017-01-14. She was thought to be the most powerful dredge in the world when she was towed into Port Nelson in September 1913.
  2. 1 2 "Dredging harbors on the Hudson's Bay route". Popular Mechanics. 1914. p. 378. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
  3. ↑ "Historic Sites of Manitoba: Port Nelson Bridge and Island (Hudson Bay, Northern Manitoba)". Manitoba history. 2016-12-31. Retrieved 2017-01-17. The 180-foot harbour dredge Port Nelson lies abandoned on the artificial island, where it was deposited during a storm in late 1924.

Coordinates: 57°02′19″N 92°35′37″W / 57.0387°N 92.5937°W / 57.0387; -92.5937

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