(1919) 1922 Canadian Gunner 1941 (1942)
Steel St. Lawrence River canal size bulk freighter
Built at Collingwood ON by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Hull 64
Launched Oct 4, 1919
251’ LBP, 43’ beam, 24’ depth
1 deck, hatches @ 24’, coal-fired boilers, triple expansion engine, 1400 IHP
Enrolled at Montreal QC
251.0 x 43.6 x 23.6, 2415 GT, 1455 NT Can 141478 to:
Minister of Marine & Fisheries, Ottawa ON (home port Montreal QC)
Vessel built for the Canadian government merchant marine under its World War I vessel construction program. Each vessel was assigned to an individual firm identifying the name of the vessel.
Transferred 1920 to Canadian Gunner Ltd.
Participated in the fall grain trade on the Great Lakes beginning in 1922
Sold Nov 23, 1926 to Canada Atlantic Transit Co., Toronto ON and renamed Canatco.
Requisitioned 1941 for off-Lakes service during World War II and left the Great Lakes
Foundered Oct 21, 1942 after explosion off Newfoundland, Atlantic Ocean. Enroute from Montreal QC to Canso NS.
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my dad served on this vessel on a trip to the british west indies in 1924. he was fireman and trimmer on that trip. his name was fred e erb is their a crew manifest i wonder?
I would suggest that the odds that a lone crew manifest from 1924 was still in existence would be a gazillion to one against and if it were there another gazzilion to one against finding where it is now.