by import | March 23, 2021 | Import Vessels
This small cruise ship was ordered from Irving Shipyards, Halifax, Nova Scotia, by Pearl Seas Cruises in 2006 for $43.5 million as the first ship built for the cruise line. The keel for Pearl Mist was laid down on July 23, 2007. Pearl Seas and Irving began a dispute...
by import | March 23, 2021 | Import Vessels
Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co.’s Hull #292 was christened Red Crown and launched into the waters of the Manitowoc River on September 18, 1937. Red Crown was constructed as a powered tanker for the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, and was 465’03’’ long, 55’ wide, and 28’ long....
by import | March 23, 2021 | Import Vessels
The 108 gross ton tug Adanac, which is Canada spelled backwards, was built by the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company of Port Arthur, ON, in 1913. The 80 foot, 3 inch long by 19 foot wide by 11 foot deep vessel was originally known as the Edward C. Whalen...
by import | March 23, 2021 | Import Vessels
The Purvis Marine tug Anglian Lady dates from 1953. The 122′ 10″ by 30′ 1″ by 14′, 318 gross-ton-vessel was built by J. I. Thornycroft & Co. of Southampton, England, as Hull 4151. Originally the Hamtun, the ship operated for the...
by import | March 23, 2021 | Import Vessels
Avenger IV survived a harrowing delivery voyage to the Great Lakes. It cleared Gravesend, England, on Oct. 30, 1985, with a Canadian crew and had to go south for better weather. It was battered by different Atlantic storms and finally passed upbound in the Welland...
by import | March 23, 2021 | Import Vessels
Purvis Marine’s G.L.B. No. 2 was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. as Hull 789 at Decatur, Alabama, and completed in June 1953 as a double-shell hopper barge. It went to work for the Potter Towing Co. of Nashville as the Jane Newfield. The 290 by 50 by 12 foot...
