1964 Cape Breton Miner 1983 (1987)
Steel self-unloading Great Lakes/ocean bulk freighter
Built at St. Catharines ON by Port Weller Dry Docks Ltd., Hull 35
Built in dry dock. Keel laid May 1963; floated April 25, 196
Built to carry coal from Dominion Coal Co., Sydney NS to Ontario Hydro, Toronto ON
680’ LOA, 645’ LBP, 75’ beam, 43’9” depth
1 deck, arch cargo hold construction, hatches @ 24’, oil-fired boilers, steam turbine engine, 9000 SHP
Enrolled at
657.0 x 75.3 x 39.8, 18809 GT, 11547 NT Can 318773 to:
Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., Toronto ON (home port Toronto ON)
Entered service May 1964
Sold 1969 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Renamed Conveyor (Liberia) 1969
Sold 1972 to Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., Toronto ON, reenrolled Canadian and returned to the Great Lakes. Renamed Cape Breton Miner.
Operated in both on-Lakes and off-Lakes service (most of it off-Lakes).
Sold 1983 for off-Lakes service and left the Great Lakes
Renamed Mazahua (Vanuatu) 1983
Sold for scrap 1987. Arrived Kaohsiung Taiwan May 27, 1987 for scrapping.
IMO 6410104
See history in Scanner Summer 2007 (#308)
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I sailed on the Cape Breton Miner as an oiler in 1972 also as 3rd engineer in 1977 .
Do you know who was chief and captain at that time .
Best Regards,
Michel
Season opening appointments for her were not published in 1972. Probably still off the Lakes. K Crooke is shown as capt and J. Montambault as chief for 1973. Maybe also for 1972 after she came back to Upper Lakes.
For 1977 N. A. Salitter is capt and A. Mair chief.
Thank you ,
I remember very well both captains , 2 special personalities. Also the chiefs , Jean Montambeault was there as a relieving chief , his ship was the Montréalais for a long while.
As much the Cape Breton Miner was difficult for the engine crew I had a good feeling of that ship.
Best Regards
Michel
I was on her in july 1978 and Ken Crooks was retiring then.
I was seaman on her 1980 or 81 will Check my discharge book I paid off in New Orleans and I think she was scrapped in Mexico not long after we had a American first mate mainly Newfy crew with several from nova scotia including the Boatswain Norm Breaon . My father wS 1 St mate on ontario power
N. B “Mike”. Salitter was Captain of both her and Ontario Power. He passed away yesterday March 30th, 2022 at 83. I came across this looking for eulogy material, thought I’d pipe in.