Port Nelson

General properties

Vessel type:

CSD

Flag:

CA

Manager:

Department of Railways and Canals

Built in:

1914

Shipyard:

Polson Iron Works Limited

Physical properties

Length (OA):

55 m

Width:

13 m

Depth:

1.8 m

About this page

Status:

Historical

Timeframe:

1914 - 1924

Review:

Lost

Last Updated

2 years 10 weeks ago

About this equipment

In 1913 Canada's Department 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, to be one of the most powerful dredgers of her time. She was completed in March, 1914, and towed to Hudson's Bay, arriving in September 1914, where she promptly ran aground. A 1924 storm tossed her onto the artificial island she helped create, where her wreck remains today.

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