Marine Industries

Marine Industries Ltd.

Industry	Shipbuilding
Fate	Merged
Successor	MIL-Davie Shipbuilding
Founded	1937
Defunct	1986
Headquarters	Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada
Products	Ferries, Naval vessels, Icebreakers
Number of employees	c.10,000

Marine Industries Limited (MIL) was a Canadian ship building 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 10,000 people during the post World War II boom.

Opened in 1937, the yard saw many contracts during its early years for vessels used on the Great Lakes and Canada's Atlantic coast. In 1986 the federal government asked Quebec to rationalize its shipyards, which saw MIL merge with Davie Shipbuilding in Lauzon; the Sorel shipyard was called M.I.L. Tracy (for Tracy, Quebec) and the Lauzon shipyard was called M.I.L. Lauzon.

Shortly after the merger, the new company, MIL Davie Shipbuilding closed the Sorel shipyard along with the Versatile Vickers shipyard in Montreal, resulting in a total loss of 1,700 jobs.

Ships built

MIL's Sorel shipyard was responsible for numerous Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Coast Guard and CN Marine vessels.

Warships

• Flower-class corvette^[1]
  • HMCS Arrowhead
  • HMCS Bittersweet
  • HMCS Calgary
  • HMCS Camrose
  • HMCS Dunvegan
  • HMCS Fennel
  • HMCS Fredericton
  • HMCS La Malbaie
  • HMCS Regina
  • HMCS Sherbrooke
  • HMCS Sorel
• St. Laurent-class destroyer
  • HMCS Assiniboine
• Restigouche-class destroyer
  • HMCS St. Croix
• Annapolis-class destroyer
  • HMCS Nipigon
• Iroquois-class destroyer
  • HMCS Iroquois
• Unclassed hydrofoil
  • HMCS Bras d'Or

Icebreakers

• A.T Cameron (1958) - built for the federal Fisheries Research Board, sold and renamed Arctic Ranger and RV Arctic Discoverer
• CCGS Sir William Alexander
• CCGS Labrador
• CCGS Bartlett
• CCGS Edward Cornwallis

Coast Guard vessels

• CCGS Tupper

Ferries

• MV Howe Sound Queen - car and passenger ferry built as MV Napoleon L in 1964 and sold to BC Ferries in 1971 (hull unknown)^[2]
• MV Abegweit
• MV John Hamilton Gray
• MV Ambrose Shea (1967) - built for CN Marine, car and passenger ferry was transferred to Marine Atlantic; sold and renamed MV Erg and scrapped^[3]
• MV Camille-Marcoux (1974) - car ferry for Government of Quebec and operates route from Matane–Baie-Comeau–Godbout

References

1. Macpherson, Ken; Milner, Marc (1993). Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1945. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-920277-83-7.
2. "Howe Sound Queen". westcoastferries.ca. 30 January 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
3. "ERG". MarineTraffic. Retrieved 22 October 2016.