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Olaya (ship)
HMCS ''Provider'' was a Fairmile B motor launch, Fairmile depot ship constructed for the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Ship commissioning, Commissioned in December 1942, ''Provider'' served as a base ship in the Caribbean Sea, in Quebec and at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Following the war, the vessel was sold into commercial service and converted into a tanker (ship), tanker in 1946. The ship re-entered service in 1947 and was renamed ''Maruba''. The ship sailed under this name until 1956, when it was sold and renamed ''Olaya''. Renamed ''Orgenos'' the same year, the tanker was acquired by the Peruvian Navy in 1960. In 1961, ''Orgenus'' was sold for scrap and Ship breaking, broken up in Peru. The Ship registration, ship's registry was not deleted until 1992. Description ''Provider'' was an Length overall, long overall and Length between perpendiculars, between perpendiculars with a Beam (nautical), beam of and a Draft (hull), draught of . The ship had a Displacement (sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Industries
Marine Industries Limited (MIL) was a Canadian ship building, hydro-electric and rail car manufacturing company, in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, with a shipyard located on the Richelieu river about 1 km from the St. Lawrence River. It employed up to 8,500 people during the World War II support effort. Opened in 1937 by the Simard family after taking over the smaller Manseau Shipyard, the yards early contracts were tugs and coastal tankers used on the Great Lakes and Canada's Atlantic coast. In the 1940s, MIL built 11 British Corvettes, beginning a growth as one of the most significant exporter of ships in Canada's shipbuilding history, with exports to Britain, France, USA, Venezuela, Greece, Holland, Indonesia, Cuba and Poland. This required a major modernisation of the yard in the early 1960s plus the growth of a significant in-house design capacity to create what became known as MARINDUS designs, from which 45 ships were built of 9 unique designs for coasters, fishing vessels, ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |