Saturday, May 28, 2022

Océan cleans house - 3. Mega, and maybe Avantage

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  3. Mega Groupe Océan has recently decommissioned some of its older idle tugs, possibly for sale or in some cases more likely for scrap [ s...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Océan cleans house - 2. Océan Basques

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  2. Océan Basques Groupe Océan is disposing of its older idle tugs. One of those is Océan Basques dating from 1972 when it was delivered b...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Océan cleans house - 1. Océan Echo II

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 The Quebec City based operator Groupe Océan has been growing substantially in recent years with expansion to British Columbia and Jamaica a...
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Monday, May 9, 2022

Evans McKeil - end of the line (amended, again)(and again)

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The Evans McKeil , a veteran Canadian tug has reached the end of its useful life and has gone to the breakers. Dating from 1936 it had a 53 ...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Sixty Years On - Part 4 - The Bantugs

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Before getting to the core of this series it is necessary to set a bit more of the background. As stated before, the Foundation Company of C...
Friday, January 21, 2022

Sixty Years On - Part 3, Vibert - Updated

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 The port of Baie-Comeau, QC was developed around the presence of abundant timber and hydroelectric power which lead to building a paper mil...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Sixty years on - Part 2 Victor and Valour

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 The first two new post World War II tugs built for Foundation Maritime, Foundation Victor of 1956 and Foundation Valour of 1958 are still...